Unreal Engine 5 Landscape Beginner Tutorial - Learn to Create Open Worlds

Overview

Learn to create open worlds in Unreal Engine 5 with this comprehensive landscape tutorial. Master essential operations, from basic navigation and sculpting to advanced techniques like world partitioning and virtual texturing. Explore Gaea for terrain generation, create custom materials and texture masks, and implement height blending and distance blending. Dive into virtual heightfield meshes, procedural grass spawning, and material library creation. By the end, confidently design and develop your own expansive, detailed landscapes for immersive game environments.

Syllabus

Intro
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Basics of Unreal Navigation
Landscape sizes
World partition basics
Sculpting basics
Intro to Gaea
Gaea Basic Node operations
Combining Nodes in Gaea
Exporting a Tiling Landscape
Landmass fundamentals
Blending Landmass with custom height map
Exporting our Landscape with no tiles
Creating our Landscape Material
Height Blending
Creating our Landscape Palette
Creating the Automatic Material
Exporting texture masks from Gaea
Creating the masks in our Material
Blending masks with height maps
Distance Blending theory
Distance Blending Material setup
Enabling Virtual texture support
Virtual Heightfield Mesh
Applying color to our Virtual Heightfield mesh
Virtual texture resolution
Procedural grass spawner
Preparing our Master Landscape parameters
Creating Functions
Creating a Material Library
Exporting a new terrain
Creating a new Landscape Biome