Megascans Scene - Black Alder Forest
 

Working on Terrain Creation with Landmass Plugin
Using Procedural Foliage Volume to spawn trees across the scene
Using Automatic Foliage Setup thanks to Landscape Grass Type
Dressing up lake borders and setting up water shader
Using Nanite/Megascans assets
Create a realistic and natural lighting
Add details such as stumps and rocks
Requirements
Owning a computer with Windows 10 or Windows 11
Winrar or 7zip to decompress files
The basics on Unreal Engine (Camera movements, create Materials, Import assets...)
Description
You have always wanted to create a scene in Unreal without spending hours creating complex shaders, vegetation and going straight to the point to focusing only on composition? This course is for you!What I will learn?In Unreal Engine 5.3.2:Working on Terrain Creation with Landmass PluginUsing Procedural Foliage Volume to spawn trees across the sceneUsing Automatic Foliage Setup thanks to Landscape Grass TypeDressing up lake borders and setting up water shaderUsing Nanite/Megascans assetsCreate a realistic and natural lightingAdd details such as stumps and rocksWorking with Quixel Bridge pluginWhat I will get?3h30 of step-by-step video tutorial1080/30fps resolutionSoftware Used:Unreal Engine 5.3.2Level:Anyone who wants to learn, improve or fix their skills in environment creation.Prerequisite:Owning a computer with Windows 10 (64Bits) / Not tested on Windows 11Winrar or 7zip to decompress filesThe basics on Unreal Engine (Camera movements, create Materials, Import assets...)Important note : This course was created in version 5.3.2 and it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to use THE SAME version! If you choose to use another version, be aware that you may encounter possible errors not covered in this course.About copyrights:All you can find in this course are for personal usage only. You cannot share it, sell it or make it available for free on any platform.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Intro & Provided Project Overview
Section 2: Landscape Creation
Lecture 2 Add Terrain & First Brush
Lecture 3 Add Other Brushes
Lecture 4 Assign Material Instance
Lecture 5 Kill Texture Repetition (Texture Bombing)
Lecture 6 Add Texture to First Layer
Lecture 7 Add Texture to Other Layers
Lecture 8 Smoothing Edges
Lecture 9 Manual Painting- Explanations
Lecture 10 Manual Painting - Terrain & Lakebed
Section 3: Procedural Foliage
Lecture 11 Enable Plugin & Add Volume
Lecture 12 Tall Trees - Create Spawner & First Generation
Lecture 13 Tall Trees - Set Density
Lecture 14 Tall Trees - Set Angle
Lecture 15 Tall Trees - Set Z Offset
Lecture 16 Tall Trees - Set Scale
Lecture 17 Tall Trees - Steps & Number Per Step
Lecture 18 Tall Trees - Add Other Tall Trees
Lecture 19 Tall Trees - Improve Tile Overlap
Lecture 20 Tall Trees - Exclude Landscape Layer & Set Max Height
Lecture 21 Add Medium Trees
Lecture 22 Add Small Trees
Lecture 23 Growing in Shade
Section 4: Optimization
Lecture 24 Set Minimum LOD on First Tree
Lecture 25 Set Minimum LOD on Other Trees
Section 5: Automatic Foliage (LGT)
Lecture 26 Explanations
Lecture 27 First Layer - Add Sorrels
Lecture 28 First Layer - Improve Specular
Lecture 29 First Layer - Add Frens
Lecture 30 First Layer - Add Nettles
Lecture 31 Set Second Layer
Section 6: Lake Creation
Lecture 32 Download Assets
Lecture 33 Dress up Edges
Lecture 34 Add Cliffs
Lecture 35 Set Mesh Edges Material Instances
Lecture 36 Set Water Parameters
Lecture 37 Vegetation - Rework Edges
Lecture 38 Vegetation - Add Grass
Lecture 39 Vegetation - Set Grass Material Instance
Lecture 40 Vegetation - Add Cabbage
Section 7: Lighting
Lecture 41 Add Fog & HDRI
Lecture 42 Set Sun Direction
Lecture 43 Set Volumetric Fog
Lecture 44 Remove a few Trees
Lecture 45 Terrain Height Rework
Lecture 46 Add Sky
Section 8: Add Details
Lecture 47 Explanations
Lecture 48 Download Rocks
Lecture 49 Add Rocks
Lecture 50 Add Stumps
Lecture 51 Add Water Rocks
Lecture 52 Use Megascans Blueprint
Lecture 53 Set Contact Shadows
Lecture 54 Outro
Beginners wishing to learn how to create a detailed scene on Unreal Engine 5