The Secret to Photoreal Skies in Unreal Engine!

The built in sky in Unreal Engine is great but does not look very realistic!

In this video I am going to show you a quick, easy and free way, to set up cinematic and photoreal skies in Unreal Engine. The same principles apply to Blender and any other 3D software as well.

Get free skies here:

[shamilsahabiev]

One of the best lessons how create awesome realistic lighting in UE! Mr. Nico Linde thank you 😌

[joediachenko]

This is really an awesome channel!! It needs more views!! Thanks so much for these amazing videos!!

[kunalchauhan]

This channel is superb with some awesome tips and tricks! Kudos!

[Vemrah]

I finally found my UNREAL TEACHER ! This is so cool!

[bisvizstudio]

Shout out to 2G studio for giving out free HDRI skies. Architecture Visualization studio based in Bali, Indonesia.

[tommyg]

Just a heads up. When you add the HDRI sky to the Skylight component the rotation value isn't linked to the main HDRI backdrop component, so when you go back and rotate the Backdrop, the lighting from the HDRI no longer updates. Is there a way to link these 2 rotational values?

[RickHenderson]

This was really great. Just bought Ultra Dynamic Skies 2 weeks ago. 🤦🏽

[arkemal]

Thank you. Is the HDRI compatible with the Path Tracer?

[KingKong]

Thanks so much this is great. I just quit unreal because of how annoying the skies looked. As well as my lighting and shadows just not looking good.

[robertgapper]

when I download the HDRI files from 2G Academy I get a Word Document. Opening up the document I see that it has a link with text asking me to download the HDRI from there... I've not done so and the document remains in a "protected state" as this doesn't feel right at all. Is this what you had to do? I don't think this is a safe site.

[myyoutubechannnel]

hello sir, thanks for this tips. i wish your channel to grow!

[michaniewiarowski]

This tutorial is exacly what i was looking for!!! Thanks:)

[cadmanfox]

It blocks the directional light lens flare

[d_c]

Genius! If you want the real sky - just use a photo of it :)

[_jeffrey_williams]

Strange, It's not letting me apply my imported texture into the HRDI texture, box highlights red/denying drag and drop.

[soumyadiptaroy]

Fantastic work! Love it. Could you mention how can we animate the sky for turntable rendering for LookDev ?

[mae]

New subscriber here.. this video looks AMAZING!!

[ziaal-barznji]

It was really very very unique very helpful

[wormjuice]

Hdri background is resolution capped, so if you want it to be a very high resolution it wont be this.

[CrisBlyth]

so, when loading an asset, how do I change it so that Unreal sees it as a 'Texture Cube"?