Lumen for Archviz | An Unreal Engine 5 Course

Hey Everyone, It's good to be back!

This intermediate course is focused on achieving realistic results using Lumen GI and Reflections.

The main focus of the course will revolve around Lumen, there are however sections where I cover the general workflow- these won't be in too much detail. Let me know if you would like to see tutorials about these topics separately!

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00:00 - Intro
01:34 - Project Preparation
02:36 - Lumen Card Placement
04:24 - Architecture Setup
06:02 - Unwrapping
07:36 - Shadow Box
07:59 - Export
09:19 - Unreal Project Creation
10:39 - Import
12:10 - Creating The Environment Light
14:14 - Adding a Post Process Volume
18:17 - Materials And The Power Of ReaWote
21:31 - Adding Assets
22:52 - Artificial Lighting
26:09 - Setting Up A Render Camera And Sequence
29:28 - Rendering With The Movie Render Queue
31:43 - Outro

[WesselHuizenga]

on 9:00 set smoothing to face not normal!

[plop]

32 mins of pure info - no filler, no "uhhhs" and "umms", and some insight into your thought process when messing with the settings. Really great job, thank you for sharing this with us!

[belgianwolfie]

fantastic tutorial. in depth + not needlessly long and elaborate = fantastic. Ty for sharing.

[silvaright]

I am loving this, you go straight to the point and for us intermediate users its exactly what we need!

[SaadViz]

Has to be the best tutorial on arch viz workflow so far. short, concise and filled with lots of goodies!
Welldone!

[NartexD]

Man, you're a legend. Exactly the kind of content I have been looking for.

[Node-D-omzc]

Thanks a ton for dropping all that knowledge in such a short timeframe! Your wisdom and experience are like a treasure trove. Keep sharing—it's making a real impact!

[OMARALJONAID]

I'm really grateful since this is the best UE 5 tutorial I've ever seen.

[aston]

Thank you for making this tut. The concept of a shadowbox was new to me - helped a lot!

[Waqar_Naqshbandi]

This is by far the most comprehensive Blender to Unreal Archviz guide I have seen. I do it in Blender but recently wanted to move to UE5 and no one seems to be giving a proper process unless you pay them a couple hundred dollars.

Thanks Man.

[gabrielegagliardi]

Wow, this tutorial is gold. I didn't know about the line command in Unreal to see how light reflects over walls, I simply highballed the result and I wondered how much single wall panels and thickness influenced the final result. Such a useful information. Subscribed, looking forward to see more videos, thank you man!

[Fryzlr]

Dude, this is by far the best ArchViz Lighting/Render tutorial of all the ones I've done so far. The end result of my renders is a game changer. Thanks and keep it up

[sami-studio]

This is the best tutorial I have ever seen up to now. Thank you so much.

[RaneezRaheem]

Great tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to create it and sharing your knowledge. All the best! :)

[nicolsd]

thank you for the course. if i may, the only thing giving it away in the beginning is the camera shake, mostly it's consistent pattern. On top of usually being filmed with cam stabilizators or maybe even dolly cams, interior footage can also be software stabilised, which in result makes it look extremely smooth. what i notice most often in my footage is usually the travel path being less smooth than the camera orientation, which is usually almost perfect. meanwhile the travel path inconsistency is explained by the operators balance as they walk on their two feet

[dainjah]

What a great tutorial. This is basically all I need to transfer my blender projects to UE.

[peterallely]

Yes please, would love detailed videos on modelling and unwrapping etc

[lz]

Thank you showing the different mesh setup to get the best lumen output. As well as making a mesh to obscure light. These were rarely mentioned in other tutorials i tackled. I am using lumen for my game. I like it but i hate seeing those light leaking problem. Other important points that i always overlook is having a uniform texel density. Thank you so much. More of this blender to unreal workflow.

[zatlanibrahim]

thanks straight to the point, the idea of helper which was also in william faucher's tut is really great wassel, I sometimes have trouble measuring light by eye only, so will start to use that ! hope you can make exterior realistic lighting tutorial one day cause that's really harder than interior to my opinion, I find people do amazing jobs with interiors, less with exteriors

[johnnyblade]

A big thank to you, your video answers a lot of questions that prevented me from moving forward in my projects... Thumbs up of course ;)