10 Working with Grouped Assets — Transcript

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1. 0:07[music]
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3. 0:15>> Hello and welcome back everyone to
4. 0:16Unreal Engine 5 beginners guide to
5. 0:18building an environment. In the last
6. 0:20lesson we left it off by setting all of
7. 0:22the planks
8. 0:23to be using Nanite and in this lesson
9. 0:25we're actually going to make use out of
10. 0:27them and set them up within our bridge.
11. 0:30So already we have a nice variation for
12. 0:33a pattern and all we have to do right
13. 0:35now is set them up within this area over
14. 0:38here. And actually the easiest way to
15. 0:40get a control over them is to group them
16. 0:42up first. So with all of them selected,
17. 0:44with all of these planks, what we're
18. 0:46going to do is we're going to click
19. 0:47control G, which groups them all up and
20. 0:50now even if we unclick them and click on
21. 0:53one of them, all of them are going to be
22. 0:54selected all at once. It creates us a
23. 0:57group actor on the right side on our
24. 1:00outliner. That just basically whenever
25. 1:02we select one of them, it selects all of
26. 1:04them at once. And that's quite nice. And
27. 1:06I'm just going to click G to go out of
28. 1:08my game view mode and we can see that we
29. 1:10even get ourselves a green border that
30. 1:12shows the entire selection for within
31. 1:14this group, which is quite nice
32. 1:16actually. And then anyways, once we have
33. 1:19this selected, we're now going to be
34. 1:20able to drag this out
35. 1:22like so and just put it to the side of
36. 1:25our edge.
37. 1:27Just going to rotate it as well.
38. 1:2990 degrees just like that
39. 1:32and just put it
40. 1:34to exactly where we wanted it to be. So
41. 1:36going to place it all the way to this
42. 1:39area over here. And now since we're
43. 1:41having it like this, we can actually see
44. 1:45how it's going to look like and
45. 1:47I see that it's going to not look as
46. 1:50wide. So what I'm going to do is I'm
47. 1:51going to click R and scale this up to
48. 1:54the side. Just like that. So this way
49. 1:57we're going to be able to touch the edge
50. 1:59of this terrain as well as just get some
51. 2:01of the planks to be touching this area
52. 2:03over here. So, that's quite important,
53. 2:05and I can also see that we're not having
54. 2:07enough pattern to be covering this
55. 2:10entire bridge. So, what I'm going to do
56. 2:11is actually I'm going to ungroup this
57. 2:13entire plank area. So, with this
58. 2:15selected, I'm going to click Shift G to
59. 2:18make sure I remove the group that area.
60. 2:20So, now I can select the planks
61. 2:22individually. And so, I think I'm going
62. 2:25to grab just a couple of them from the
63. 2:27back like so. And
64. 2:29actually three of them, and then hold
65. 2:31Alt, which if we use the translation
66. 2:34tool,
67. 2:35we're going to be able to put it to the
68. 2:37side, and it'll just duplicate our
69. 2:39assets, which is quite nice. And
70. 2:41actually, we just needed two of them.
71. 2:43So, I'm just going to delete one of them
72. 2:45like so, and it's going to give us a
73. 2:47really nice type of result for the shape
74. 2:49of the bridge. Now, I think we just need
75. 2:51to lower it down a little bit. So, I'm
76. 2:53going to do that as well. Going to
77. 2:55select all of them just like I did
78. 2:57previously,
79. 2:58one by one like so. And actually, going
80. 3:01to click Ctrl G to make sure that
81. 3:02they're grouped up. So, the next time
82. 3:04we're going to be able to select the
83. 3:05entire mesh like so, which is going to
84. 3:07be quite simple. And then afterwards,
85. 3:09I'm just going to drag it down so that
86. 3:11it'd be like right in the middle.
87. 3:13And that's actually going to look quite
88. 3:14nice. Just going to delete the base that
89. 3:16we had previously, and it's already
90. 3:18giving us a really nice shape. Now, for
91. 3:20this section,
92. 3:21we're actually going to make use out of
93. 3:23the platform that we had. We're going to
94. 3:25duplicate it, so we're holding Alt, and
95. 3:27then dragging it upwards, which is going
96. 3:29to make us a nice duplicate. Then
97. 3:31clicking E to rotate it. Since we had a
98. 3:33snapping mode turned on, we're going to
99. 3:35rotate it
100. 3:36in a nice 90° kind of a way.
101. 3:39There you go.
102. 3:41And now, we're just going to click W and
103. 3:43put it to the side.
104. 3:45And we're going to position it right
105. 3:47above the upper planks that we had. So,
106. 3:49we're just going to lower this all down.
107. 3:52And for now, we don't have to worry
108. 3:54about the length going this way. We're
109. 3:55just worrying about this plank going on
110. 3:58the same kind of a length as we had the
111. 4:00gray box done.
112. 4:02Make sure we have it aligned.
113. 4:05Maybe just a little bit sticking up like
114. 4:06so, so we can now delete this entire
115. 4:08section just like that. And now we're
116. 4:10left with this kind of a pattern that
117. 4:12we're going to make use out of. And of
118. 4:15course, it's going to be too long, so
119. 4:16we're going to click and undo our
120. 4:18ungroup selection by clicking shift and
121. 4:22G.
122. 4:23And once we do that, we're going to
123. 4:24select individual planks that are
124. 4:26overlaying this area, and simply delete
125. 4:28them just like that. So, we're going to
126. 4:30be left with this kind of result, which
127. 4:32is going to be quite nice.
128. 4:34Now, of course, this is not going to be
129. 4:35done just quite yet. We need to make
130. 4:38sure we have some additional
131. 4:40information, additional detail for these
132. 4:42upper sections of the planks. So, we're
133. 4:45going to make use out of those three
134. 4:47variations of the wood chunks that we
135. 4:50had previously. And actually, we're
136. 4:51going to make sure we make them all
137. 4:53longer just a little bit more. So, we're
138. 4:55actually just going to select all of
139. 4:57them like so, each one of them, and then
140. 5:00we're going to extend them just by a
141. 5:02little bit.
142. 5:03So,
143. 5:04I'm thinking that maybe we can get away
144. 5:07with this amount.
145. 5:08It might be a little bit too much.
146. 5:11I think that's going to be quite all
147. 5:12right. Looking from a distance, it's
148. 5:15actually going to look quite nice. Okay,
149. 5:17so now that we have it like so, we're
150. 5:18actually going to to set them all up
151. 5:21nicely with one another,
152. 5:23and make sure that there's no
153. 5:25too big of a gap in between them.
154. 5:28You're going to want to leave a bit of a
155. 5:29gap, so that way we'll break up the
156. 5:31entire shape. And I think just having it
157. 5:33like so is actually going to be looking
158. 5:35quite nice.
159. 5:37And also, let's not forget to add this
160. 5:39bit as well. This will just break up the
161. 5:42entire shape. We're going to rotate this
162. 5:44actually 180°.
163. 5:47We'll flip it around, and put it to this
164. 5:49side like so. So, this way we're
165. 5:50actually breaking off the entire shape.
166. 5:52As you can see, we have a really nice
167. 5:54way to show off the end of this log over
168. 5:57here. And that way we're just getting a
169. 5:59really nice overall result. And actually
170. 6:02for this bit, we can even just kind of
171. 6:05rotate it a little bit. We can turn off
172. 6:07the snapping mode like so just by a
173. 6:09little bit and have it slightly rotated
174. 6:11sideways. This way we're not going to
175. 6:13have an entirely straight piece of wood.
176. 6:16And that's I think it's going to look
177. 6:18much nicer. So, now we're going to just
178. 6:20make sure we grab them all, click
179. 6:23control G and group them all up
180. 6:24together, and that's going to give us a
181. 6:26nice kind of a group type section of
182. 6:28those chunks. And now we're just going
183. 6:30to drag it all the way to the other end
184. 6:32like so and position them accordingly.
185. 6:35So, we want to make sure we're having
186. 6:37them positioned to be sat on top of this
187. 6:40area over here.
188. 6:42And actually we might even want to make
189. 6:44them a little bit smaller.
190. 6:46I'm just going to lower this height
191. 6:48completely like so.
192. 6:50And just going to make sure that this
193. 6:53ends
194. 6:54a little bit
195. 6:55to the back of our log. Just like that.
196. 6:59So, already we are getting a really nice
197. 7:01shape out of it. Although the color
198. 7:03right now doesn't look quite as nice,
199. 7:04we're going to be fixing that up in a
200. 7:06second. So, for now though, I think it's
201. 7:08going to look quite all right. We're
202. 7:10just going to now make sure this is done
203. 7:12on the same end as well.
204. 7:14Or actually
205. 7:16we might even lower this down by a
206. 7:17little bit
207. 7:19just to get a nicer result. So, I'm
208. 7:20going to go ahead and do that.
209. 7:22Just lowering this down just like that.
210. 7:25So, it doesn't stick out too much.
211. 7:28Of course, in the gaps we're going to
212. 7:29see them that they're overlapping, but
213. 7:32all in all from a distance
214. 7:34not closing in too much, it's going to
215. 7:36look much nicer as a result. And I think
216. 7:39that's going to be looking much better.
217. 7:42So, okay. Now that we have it like so,
218. 7:43we're going to make sure we put it on
219. 7:45the other end as well. So, holding alt,
220. 7:47going to click and hold and then drag it
221. 7:48to the side like so. Then click E to get
222. 7:51it rotated and just going to Let's make
223. 7:54sure we have the rotation snap enabled.
224. 7:58And now we're going to rotate it 180°
225. 8:00just like that and we're going to in
226. 8:02turn get a completely different result.
227. 8:04Or even we might want to just rotate
228. 8:07this entirely by 180° because we had a
229. 8:10different slight different shape over
230. 8:12here. But I'm just going to break up
231. 8:14entire set.
232. 8:17And just like that we're able to get
233. 8:18some real nice results. Of course, we're
234. 8:19not quite done just yet. We need to set
235. 8:21the same thing up over here on this end.
236. 8:24So, we're going to grab Actually, we can
237. 8:25grab both of them at once, hold alt, and
238. 8:28duplicate it. Then position them to be
239. 8:31somewhat in the middle, rotate them by
240. 8:3290° like so,
241. 8:35and then move it a little bit to the
242. 8:37side just like that.
243. 8:39So, just by doing these simple steps
244. 8:41we're able to get some real nice
245. 8:42results. And of course, we don't have
246. 8:46quite good looking edge on this end. So,
247. 8:49we're going to need to fix that first.
248. 8:52And I think the way we're going to do it
249. 8:53is going to be quite simple. We're
250. 8:55actually just going to select both of
251. 8:57them, click shift and G. Since both of
252. 8:59them is selected, both of them are going
253. 9:00to get removed from the group so I can
254. 9:02select individual pieces. So, we're
255. 9:04going to end up deleting these pieces.
256. 9:06And as for these chunks,
257. 9:08I'm thinking we can just
258. 9:09grab each one of them and kind of squish
259. 9:12them back down like so. I think that's
260. 9:14going to work quite nicely.
261. 9:16Just trying to think whether it would
262. 9:18look nicer if we have the board
263. 9:20overlapping with this end.
264. 9:22And I'm just going to move back just to
265. 9:23see how it's going to look like if we
266. 9:25had it done like in this section like
267. 9:27so.
268. 9:28And this might actually look better.
269. 9:30Yeah, I think it's going to look way
270. 9:32better like this. So, let's go ahead and
271. 9:33make sure we squished it down
272. 9:35just enough so we get the end to be
273. 9:38sticking to this side like so. And let's
274. 9:41just make sure
275. 9:42we're getting it in the right kind of
276. 9:44way.
277. 9:45So, this is going to look really nice,
278. 9:47actually. This is already looking pretty
279. 9:49good. We just got to make sure we do the
280. 9:51same on the other end as well.
281. 9:53Just like that.
282. 9:56Going to make sure squish it down a
283. 9:57little bit more, pull it back to the
284. 9:58side, and we're getting some real nice
285. 10:00solid results already. So, just like
286. 10:02that we're able to get some real nice
287. 10:05look to our bridge.
288. 10:06Now, what we can do now is is we need to
289. 10:09set up the bottom bits as well. And
290. 10:12we're actually going to continue on with
291. 10:14this in the next lesson. So, thanks so
292. 10:16much for watching, and I'll see you in a
293. 10:18bit.