Create a Photorealistic World in UE4

Quixel artist Eoin O'Broin goes through the steps of creating a photorealistic meadow scene using Megascans in Unreal Engine 4. Learn everything from importing Megascans assets and creating master materials, to lighting and scattering assets to create a dense scene.

Timestamps:

00:25 Introduction To Megascans
00:45 Importing Megascans Assets To UE4
03:24 Creating Opaque Master Material
13:53 Creating Foliage Master Material
19:24 Setting Up LODs
23:15 Landscape Overview
25:42 Creating Cliffs
29:18 Lighting And Post Processing
35:32 Scattering Rock Assemblies
39:07 Scattering Foliage
48:55 Rock Blending Technique

Rock 3D Assets Used:

Twig 3D Asset Used:

Foliage 3D Assets Used:

[HiTechShawn]

Amazing tutorial! You didn't just jump in and start changing values and maps, you explained every part of what you were doing and why you were doing it. This is something that 80% or more of tutorials don't do. Very helpful! Thank you 👍

[AlexiosLair]

Please, consider making a tutorial about blending the Quixel textures and using masks from World Machine properly for landscape shader. I have noticed that the tutorials that are doing this kind of stuff are quite outdated and also they hardly allow you also to draw on the surface if you want to manually adjust them.

Will be glad if this will happen! It will be VERY useful!

[nick-gclb]

For everyone wondering about the song used, it is a song Eoin made. Eoin is also a musician / producer who goes by the alias Noisestorm. I highly reccomend you check his music out. (Unfortunately, the song only exists for this video, and he doesn't have the file anymore).

[emantini]

Quixel has truly made an incredible tool, showing us the future of all development in VFX and in Games.

[UltimateImmersion]

I love your work so much. A true inspiration.

[lacilaci]

Create a Photorealistic world in UE4: "so there's this super neat landscape material you will never learn to make, let's proceed to placing assets in the world :D"

[millie]

In the not-too-distant future, people will make films using this and upload them to YouTube to assist with their vlogging etc. Game changing stuff. In decades to come our children won't comprehend a world without these incredible toys…

[xMulatHero]

I'm no graphic designer or anything of the sorts but I truly enjoy watching your content, as I just find them so relaxing.

[urdadacrypto]

Here's my review of quixel
Sorry for my english 😂
I just started my journey with UE4 and I really like making 3d models mixing and matching different textures and making realistic scenes and etc, but starting with limited sources is frustrating but when I started with quixel (today) it was a whole new world I can create ultra realistic scenes and everything is on my fingertips thanks quixel for this amazing experience, the best thing about quixel is that almost everything there is absolutely free and high quality I am just on a laptop as I am not that rich with just a 4gb graphics card and low memory still I am able to do many things it's absolutely brilliant

[hippiebrother]

I was literally just about to subscribe to megascans and just found this video. Thanks so much, I'll be watching this a few times as I work on my first environment with megascans!

[Mitroiul]

I want a tutorial on that landscape material. That's the only thing crazy thing in this video and, ironically, the only thing not covered. You brought that landscape into the scene and it already looked godlike, whatever you did next with those assets was just bonus. But really, the landscape made the whole scene.

[starscream]

Because of this tutorial i am really considering getting into quixel and mega scans, i am not 100% decided but videos like this that show you the tools that are brand new to you, help you decide.

[xxxtefennixxx]

These kind of videos make me think that the life itself is a simulation and the god is a programmer

[wesleysure]

It's so crazy how two years ago this looked amazing and nowadays it's not anything too insane.

[rajasrungavarapu]

i want to live in that world right now!

[PRoxyoQ]

You need to start recording these in 4K as 1080p at 60 doesn't do it justice . Amazing work learned a lot about UE4 as well.

[walker]

You inspired me to do unreal engine 4. It's so realistic...

[Outsideville]

Everytime I watch a Quixel video, it makes me want to give this a try. Truly inspiring and beautiful.

[MrThePoetikAngel]

I really love the visual of the landscape material! Can you make a complete tutorial to explain how to recreate this one please?

[Absolute_Unit]

You guys at Quixel blow my mind, I'm waiting for all my games to look this photorealistic...