You're reading from Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics Create custom 3D assets and bring them to life in Unreal Engine 5 using MetaHuman, Lumen, and Nanite

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812443

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Lumen

Concepts

Animation

Authors (2):

Wilhelm Ogterop

Henk Venter

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Creating 3D Assets

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Blender's 3D Modeling and Sculpting Tools FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Modeling a Robot Drone Character

4. Chapter 3: Let's Sculpt an Alien Plant!

5. Chapter 4: UV Maps and Texture Baking

6. Chapter 5: Texturing Your Models inside Quixel Mixer

7. Part 2 Building Your Virtual Movie Set in Unreal Engine 5

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Unreal Engine 5

9. Chapter 7: Setting Up Materials in UE 5

10. Chapter 8: Using MetaHuman to Create a Photorealistic Human for UE5

11. Chapter 9: Building a Virtual 3D Movie Set in UE5

12. Chapter 10: Adding Lighting and Atmospheric Visual Effects in UE5

13. Part 3 Character Rigging for Animation in UE5 with Control Rig

14. Chapter 11: Alien Plant Joint Setup in Blender

15. Chapter 12: Alien Plant Skinning in Blender

16. Chapter 13: Robot Joint Setup and Skinning in Blender

17. Chapter 14: Making a Custom Rig for Our Alien Plant with Control Rig

18. Chapter 15: Creating a Control Rig with Basic IK Controls for the Robot in UE5

19. Part 4 Animation in UE5 Using Control Rig and Sequencer

20. Chapter 16: Creating a Simple Swaying Animation Cycle in UE5 Sequencer

21. Chapter 17: Creating Three Simple Animations for the Robot in UE5 Sequencer

22. Chapter 18: Importing Motion Capture onto the MetaHuman Control Rig

23. Chapter 19: Motion Capture Editing and Cleanup Using Control Rig and Sequencer

24. Chapter 20: Using Sequencer to Construct Your Final Scene

25. Index

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Texturing the Robot Drone in Mixer

Before you start on the texturing tutorial, you need to familiarize yourself with the way that lighting works in Mixer.

Try out the following shortcut in Quixel Mixer's Viewport: Shift + right mouse button to rotate the image-based lighting.

Also, try out different image-based lighting options in the drop-down menu (see numbers 4 and 5 in Figure 5.2). This step is essential since you will need to see the results of your textures/materials under different lighting angles and conditions.

Let's now get started with the practical part of our tutorial, by loading your model into Mixer.

Loading the Robot Drone model into Quixel Mixer

The first thing you want to do in Quixel Mixer is to replace the 3D-plane model shown in Figure 5.2 with your own custom model. In the following screenshot, I have added images of the Setup tab's menu:

Figure 5.3 – Loading a custom model into Quixel Mixer

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