Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Creating Castle Ruins

Overview

Learn to create castle ruins in Unreal Engine 5 with this beginner-friendly environment tutorial. Master essential techniques including modeling brick walls, using Unreal's built-in modeling tools for creating destroyed assets, and utilizing scene-dressing features like vertex painting, foliage, and physics simulations. Follow along to build a small yet impressive scene while gaining valuable skills in level creation, mesh manipulation, material application, and environmental design. Discover how to use Boolean operations, create variations, work with blueprints, and add finishing touches with lighting tricks to bring your castle ruins to life in this comprehensive 54-minute video guide.

Syllabus

Intro
Creating our level
Creating our brick wall
Detailing our brick wall
Creating the Boolean mesh
Cut the meshes
Adding Secondary Materials
Adding Wall variations
Creating Level Instanced Blueprints
Assembling the Ruins
Painting the ground
Painting Grass
Adding collision
Brick Physics Simulation
Finishing touches and lightning tricks