Achieve stunning photorealistic environments and create cinematic masterpieces by combining environment art, animation, VFX and cinematography with Unreal Engine Specialist, Giovanni Visai Key Features Implement advanced shaders, effects, and post-processing to make your environment look cinematic - Explore techniques for achieving realistic graphic complexity with incredible performance - Create your own materials and enhance the visuals of your gaming environment - Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description As Unreal Engine 5 continues to conquer all industries thanks to its real-time technology, UE skills are becoming more sought after than ever. This three-part book covers all the processes behind the creation of a stunning environment in UE 5. Starting with the steps for installing the game engine and learning about its potential, you’ll quickly progress toward generating a variety of different upwards scaling outputs, each bigger than the previous one. After completing the first part and getting realistic shots of a single object, you’ll delve into the world of landscapes, procedural material and foliage, the Landmass plugin, and water tools by creating an environment using Megascan assets. At this point, you’ll know everything you need to create a fascinating and realistic environment. The final part of this book will teach you how to craft cinematic shots by working with cinematic tools, post processing, and framing tools, and by rendering a photorealistic shot in the last chapter. By the end of this Unreal Engine book, you'll be able to create outstanding and realistic environments using the powerful tools provided by UE as well as have an understanding of the importance of filming and composition in world building. What you will learn Generate a Master Material to create hundreds of different material instances - Explore lighting principles and apply them to UE lighting systems - Evaluate the pros and cons of real-time rendering in the world-building process - Build massive landscapes with procedural materials, heightmap, landmass, and water - Populate an environment with realistic assets using Foliage and Megascan - Master the art of crafting stunning shots with Sequencer - Enhance visual quality with Post Process Volume and Niagara - Produce a photorealistic shot using the Movie Render Queue Who this book is for If you are a creative director, designer, or creator with a passion for technology and CGI, this UE 5 book is for you. Game developers and tech artists will also benefit from this book as it can help them understand an environment artist’s workflow and how to optimize performance. Table of Contents Creating Your First Project in Unreal Engine 5 - Navigating the Unreal Engine 5 Interface - Exploring Unreal Engine 5 Project Structure - Importing and Working with Assets - Mastering Materials and Shading - Illuminating Your World with Lighting - Exploring Nanite, RVTs, and the World Partition Tool - Utilizing the Megascans Library - Mastering Landscape and Terrain - Creating Diverse Environments with Plugins - Crafting Cinematic Shots with Cameras and Sequencer - Enhancing Scenes with Post-Processing and Niagara - Rendering and Exporting Cinematic Shots “This book meticulously describes everything that anyone who wants to create a realistic environment in Unreal Engine 5 needs to know, describing in a detailed and exhaustive manner every aspect that may be useful or necessary, without leaving out any detail. Another relevant thing done by the author in drafting the text was to talk about techniques regarding photography, exposure, and color temperature and how they were converted for use within Unreal Engine, filling or completing any gaps in your learning in order to help you gain a complete understanding. I can easily recommend reading this manual, whether you are a beginner or want to deepen your knowledge in the field of creating photorealistic digital environments.” Carlo Gioventù, 3D Rendering and Realtime Expert - Unreal Authorized Instructor partner for Epic Games “Giovanni Visai shares his knowledge through easy-to-follow chapters that focus on the practical application of each topic covered. By following along the chapters, a new reader will be able to create realistic environments and render an image/video of the biome by the time they complete the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone willing to learn Unreal Engine 5 through a structured learning process for environment visualization.” Purushothaman Raju, Academic Trainer, Author, Game Designer/Producer Giovanni Visai is an Unreal Engine Specialist, Game Designer and Teacher with extensive experience in real-time projects both gaming and virtual production. During the last 5 years, he has led a team in developing interactive solutions, software and virtual production projects in Unreal Engine. In January 2023, he was selected by Epic Games to be part of the World building fellowship