You're reading from Cinematic Photoreal Environments in Unreal Engine 5 Create captivating worlds and unleash the power of cinematic tools without coding

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803244112

Length 548 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Giovanni Visai

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Unreal Engine 5

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Project in Unreal Engine 5 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Navigating through the Unreal Engine 5 Interface

4. Chapter 3: Exploring Unreal Engine 5 Project Structure

5. Chapter 4: Importing and Working with Assets

6. Chapter 5: Mastering Materials and Shading

7. Chapter 6: Illuminating Your World with Lighting

8. Chapter 7: Exploring Nanite, RVTs, and the World Partition Tool

9. Part 2: Environment Creation Techniques

10. Chapter 8: Utilizing the Megascans Library

11. Chapter 9: Mastering Landscape and Terrain

12. Chapter 10: Creating Diverse Environments with Plugins

13. Part 3: Cinematic Fundamentals and Rendering

14. Chapter 11: Crafting Cinematic Shots with Cameras and a Sequencer

15. Chapter 12: Enhancing Scenes with Post-Processing and Niagara

16. Chapter 13: Rendering and Exporting Cinematic Shots

17. Index

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Understanding and working with the Foliage mode

In this section, we will learn what the Foliage mode is and how to use it. The Foliage mode is an Unreal Engine 5 mode that includes tools to place foliage assets on Landscapes, but also on Static Meshes. By using a brush tool, very similar to the brush that we can find in Landscape mode, we can place assets randomly on our surfaces. Foliage mode is very useful for placing repeatable assets such as trees, bushes, grass, or debris to make our environment rich in detail.

We can enable Foliage mode by changing the Viewport mode. To change mode, you can use the drop-down menu in the main toolbar. You can also use the SHIFT + 3 keyboard shortcut to enter Foliage mode. The first time you enter Foliage mode, the dedicated panel looks like this: