Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial for Beginners | Free UE4 Training

In this free Unreal Engine 4 for beginners tutorial video you will learn all of the basics of creating an environment in UE4. This includes setting UE4 up properly, creating and texturing a landscape, importing 3D models (static meshes), adding grass and trees with the foliage tool and using lighting and post -processing effects.

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timestamps (thanks to Chozume):

0:00 introductions
6:30 Interfaces
9:26 Creating and saving Levels
12:45 Navigating 3D Space in the Viewport
18:01 Introduction to Landscapes
25:44 Landscape Sculpting
39:09 Creating a Landscape from a Height Map
43:37 Creating your own Landscape
59:12 Creating a new Material
1:03:04 Material Editor Interface
1:05:50 Changing the Colour of a Material
1:10:47 Applying a Material to a Mesh
1:13:06 Adding Roughness to a Material
1:16:38 Importing Assets (Textures)
1:19:41 Adding a Texture to the base Colour of a Material
1:23:14 Adding a Normal Map to a Material
1:26:06 Adding Comments to organise Materials
1:28:38 Using Parameters & Material Instances
1:34:45 Using Parameters to Change Texture Sizes
1:39:53 Creating a Landscape Material
1:49:02 Painting a Landscape with different Textures
2:00:32 Importing Static Meshes
2:05:57 Creating the Materials for the Cabin
2:09:05 Creating the Window Material for the Cabin
2:15:33 Importing the Cabin Static Mesh into the Level
2:23:59 Importing and Adding the Rocks into the Level
2:32:00 Importing and Adding the Fireplace into the Level
2:41:08 Importing the Grass & Creating the Material
3:01:56 Adding Grass to the Level with the Foliage Tool
3:14:55 Importing the Tree and working with LODs
3:29:25 Creating a Forest using the Foliage Tool
3:36:27 Adding Rocks to the Terrain using the Foliage Tool
3:42:04 Controlling Performance and Quality with Engine Scalability Settings
3:47:05 Changing and Improving the Sun and Sky. (Colour/Angle/Light Shaft/Bloom)
3:55:13 Creating Lights (Point/Spot Light, Change Colour/Intensity/Attenuation Radius)
4:00:49 Building Lighting
4:08:18 Adding Fog (Exponential Height Fog)
4:11:12 Using Post Processing (Depth of Field/Saturation/Contrast/Bloom/Vignette)
4:17:37 Adding Particle Effects to the Level (Fire&Smoke)

[POVLA]

IMPORTANT FOR THE VERTEX GRASS. I am using UE 4.25.1 - When you get to the part about applying Wind to the grass using the vertex colors, don't forget to change "Vertex Color Import Option" from the default "Ignore" to "replace." Otherwise, the wind will continue to affect the entire model. :)

[chozume]

timestamps:

0:00 introductions
6:30 Interfaces
9:26 Creating and saving Levels
12:45 Navigating 3D Space in the Viewport
18:01 Introduction to Landscapes
25:44 Landscape Sculpting
39:09 Creating a Landscape from a Height Map
43:37 Creating your own Landscape
59:12 Creating a new Material
1:03:04 Material Editor Interface
1:05:50 Changing the Colour of a Material
1:10:47 Applying a Material to a Mesh
1:13:06 Adding Roughness to a Material
1:16:38 Importing Assets (Textures)
1:19:41 Adding a Texture to the base Colour of a Material
1:23:14 Adding a Normal Map to a Material
1:26:06 Adding Comments to organise Materials
1:28:38 Using Parameters & Material Instances
1:34:45 Using Parameters to Change Texture Sizes
1:39:53 Creating a Landscape Material
1:49:02 Painting a Landscape with different Textures
2:00:32 Importing Static Meshes
2:05:57 Creating the Materials for the Cabin
2:09:05 Creating the Window Material for the Cabin
2:15:33 Importing the Cabin Static Mesh into the Level
2:23:59 Importing and Adding the Rocks into the Level
2:32:00 Importing and Adding the Fireplace into the Level
2:41:08 Importing the Grass & Creating the Material
3:01:56 Adding Grass to the Level with the Foliage Tool
3:14:55 Importing the Tree and working with LODs
3:29:25 Creating a Forest using the Foliage Tool
3:36:27 Adding Rocks to the Terrain using the Foliage Tool
3:42:04 Controlling Performance and Quality with Engine Scalability Settings
3:47:05 Changing and Improving the Sun and Sky. (Colour/Angle/Light Shaft/Bloom)
3:55:13 Creating Lights (Point/Spot Light, Change Colour/Intensity/Attenuation Radius)
4:00:49 Building Lighting
4:08:18 Adding Fog (Exponential Height Fog)
4:11:12 Using Post Processing (Depth of
4:17:37 Adding Particle Effects to the Level (Fire&Smoke)

Hope this helps and thank you so much for the amazing tutorial!

[MrJakeKale]

This is like a high-tech 21st century version of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross.

[starsfell]

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love and respect..!

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[Howling_Moon]

You're one of the rarest on YT who can show everything in such decent way man. Thanks. You could do more UE4 tuts for level design... :)

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[vorklan]

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[jacobkisiel]

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[charleyvibe]

i’ve been watching, rewatching this video and rewinding and doing this tutorial over and over for about a couple days now and i’m finally getting it now and understanding what’s really going on. Couldn’t find any tutorials for unreal engine 4 like this. man this guy is awesome. i’m definitely getting in on his patreon !

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[JellyfishRave]

Nearly three hours into this and I remain absolutely blown away by the production quality, wealth of information, and lighthearted atmosphere. As a total beginner, having only very basic Python experience but having never used a game engine before, I feel the need to thank you sincerely for the work you put into this. Can't wait to explore the rest of your UE4 tutorials, cheers!