Udemy – Unreal Engine 5 – Open World Landscapes

Info:
What you'll learn
How to create new landscapes
How to import existing (real world!) landscapes
How to sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves
How to paint a terrain with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures
How to populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, and tree foliage
How to add oceans, lakes, and rivers
How to populate a landscape with road, fence, and mesh splines
How to add God rays and fog

In this game design course, you'll learn how to use Unreal Engine's Landscape and Foliage Editing tools so that YOU can build open world environments like seen in "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." Knowing how to use these tools is a critical skill for those aspiring to be Level Designers or Environment Artists!

This course contains over 30 fun-to-follow video lessons! You'll learn how to:

Setup a project in the Unreal Engine

Grab (free) asset packs from the integrated "Fab" tab in Unreal and use them in our project

Create a new landscape

Import existing (real world!) landscapes

Work on modifying existing landscapes

Sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves

Apply and work with landscape materials

Paint landscape surfaces with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures

Populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, or tree foliage

Populate a landscape with road, fence, and mesh splines

Use numerous Sculpting and Foliage tools within Unreal

Illuminate our landscapes with dynamic lighting

Add fog & God rays

Stream sections of your open world in and out

Optimize the performance of our open world

And more!

With the knowledge gained in these video lessons, you'll have the necessary skills to start building your OWN open world environments!

Who this course is for:
Beginner Game Designers interested in creating open world games
Beginner Level Artists interested in crafting realistic outdoor environments
Beginners looking to expand their knowledge of Level Design
Beginners looking to expand their knowledge of Unreal Engine's tool sets (Landscape & Foliage Tools especially)