Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Creating an Island

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Learn to create an Island in Unreal Engine 5. In this video you will learn how to create an environment from scratch using UE5. You will learn to use tools like landscape, water actors, set dressing skills and much more.

Questions? Let us know in the comments!

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Timestamps:
0:00:00 intro
0:00:51 Navigation and Plugins needed
0:03:07 Creating the Landscape
0:07:07 Adding Landmass
0:17:31 Adding Ocean
0:23:40 Adding Rivers
0:30:28 Adding Lakes
0:35:08 Creating the Landscape Material
0:46:48 Painting the Landscape
0:55:14 Adding beach assets
1:11:29 Speed Set Dressing
1:14:07 Painting Coral Rocks
1:22:56 Painting Sea Plants
1:29:57 Changing Foliage LODs
1:31:21 Adding more foliage
1:35:06 Adding big plants
1:37:28 Adding the Background
1:44:53 Adding Decals
1:51:32 Lightning and Mood
2:02:37 Outro

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All Comments (21)
  • @unfgames
    Hello! šŸ‘‹ Mao here, It is time for another Environment tutorial! This time we are touching landscapes and the water system to create an Island! Want to learn to create an Action Game from scratch? Go to www.unfgames.com/action-game and watch the first lesson for FREE! If you liked this video, subscribe for more! Comment below what kind of Tutorial you would like to see next!šŸ‘‡ You can find my Gaming channel on: youtube.com/@maomaopvp & www.twitch.tv/maomaopvp Edit: Since the release of this video we got some frequent questions about the same topics so I will put them here with the solution: Q: I don't see the Landmass Blueprint A: Make sure you enable Landmass plugin, restart the editor AND Enable Edit Layers before creating your Landscape Q: I don't see my water: A: If it is the first time you put it, it will take some time to load. In the video I loaded it into memory before so you don't have to wait, but typically you will wait a few minutes. If you still can't see it make sure you put the Water on the right layer. Above the base can wor
  • @nebexdoesnt8336
    If you don't see the landscape blueprint brushes, Edit>Plugins>(search for)Landmass>enable>reset unreal done.
  • @WeAreAxeholes
    Have not finished the video and already learned a lot more in detail of the actual tools. Thank you for taking time to elaborate the tools
  • @AllesLatte
    dont know if someone already mentioned it; around 1:18:10 when you're painting foliage on the water plane; its usually way easier to just unclick the "static meshes" button in the foliage editor "filters" section. this way youre only painting on bsp and landscape meshes. definitely a more effective way than moving your camera beneath the surface every time. anyways, nice tutorial, good pacing. keep em coming!
  • @blackdino8267
    i just starting to learn unreal and ur tutorials really helps me a lot man, I really appreciate how you explain it step by step in a simple way so even newbie like me can follow through, many thanks!!
  • It looks great ! You use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that I don't know as a newbie. It's nice if you put on the screen what you click on the keyboard and mouse, it would be much clearer. :)
  • He did a very good job imo. Explaining the basics step by step. English is not my first language and I have no experience in using DAWs
  • @Mirakuruuu
    very excellent tutorial i love it although i wish you would've included how to make beach waves, waterfalls and custom sky clouds
  • @DaCapitalist1
    The team at UNF knows whatā€™s up! What a wonderful tutorial
  • @LazieReaper
    Watching other guides, always leads me back to yours to get the level of detail I need on how to do things! Keep it up!
  • @kmanL3G3N3D
    I love the orange alien looking sky u briefly showed. I literally paused the video a few times to admire the image
  • @AdamWestish
    I love this tutorial - you filled in all kinds of areas I had questions about as a beginner in the landscaping/level set up.
  • Hey there, I am hoping if you guys can make a tutorial on how to make a maze/labyrinth. It would be very nice and I think everyone would like that. Also if you end up doing this, could you show us how to make a procedurally generated maze? Thanks, you are amazing! Keep it up.
  • @vekien
    Absolutely brilliant tutorial, so clean, simple, clear. Very very easy to understand, thank you!!!
  • @Acidman030
    I cant believe that this is a free tutorial!!! Thank you, ser! Subscribed
  • @Zephyr01100
    The perfect video for beginners, I know nothing and now I can actually do stuff on unreal
  • @Raj_97s
    Just mind blowing bro. Mad respect for the detailed tutorial ā¤ļø. Thank you for spending hours for making this video. Please keep the good work. Expecting more tutorials like this šŸ˜
  • has nobody noticed the water in the rivers are flowing backwards? this is because he is placing the starting point at the ocean or lake instead of it's actual starting point. this is very noticeable at 31:25 when he joins the 2 rivers together the waterfall is flowing upwards.
  • @pinciukauskas
    wow I am new to UE5 and I am in love with your tutorial.
  • I just wanted to say - this is the perfect way to make a tutorial ..simple, clearly explained, well presented! Thank you