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Cinematic Photoreal Environments in Unreal Engine 5

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803244112
Length 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a Cine Camera Actor and exploring its settings

Until now in this book, we have created everything through the technical eyes of the Engine’s default camera; and that was the correct thing to do because we were studying all the different techniques we need to craft environments. But now, it’s time to valorize our work by seeing it through the eyes of a Cine Camera Actor and understand how to use it to frame a portion of our environment.

A Cine Camera Actor is a digitalization of a real-life camera that simulates all the different settings and physical characteristics that a real-life camera has.

We can create a Cine Camera Actor in a couple of different ways:

  • We can find Cine Camera Actor inside the Place Actor panel under the Cinematic category.
Figure 11.1 – Cine Camera Actor inside the Place Actor Panel

Figure 11.1 – Cine Camera Actor inside the Place Actor Panel

By clicking on the Cine Camera Actor entry, the Engine will add the Cine Camera Actor at a random position...

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