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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A Material Function is like a box, inside of which you can create complex material graphs abstracted in a single node. You can also create custom inputs and custom outputs for this node. Material Functions can be reused in multiple materials to make material creation easier and faster. In the next section, we will discover the most common functions you can find inside the Engine.