11 Creating Variations Within Bridge Foundation — Transcript

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1. 0:15Welcome back everyone to Unreal Engine 5
2. 0:17beginner's guide to building an
3. 0:18environment. In the last lesson, we left
4. 0:20it off by getting the base foundation of
5. 0:22our bridge using the Quickixel assets.
6. 0:26And this time we're going to continue
7. 0:27working on it and actually set it up in
8. 0:29a nice kind of way with some wooden
9. 0:31poles and whatnot and get a real nice
10. 0:33looking bridge to have within our
11. 0:35scenery. So let's go ahead and do that.
12. 0:37We're going to go back onto the 3D
13. 0:39assets folder. Now we're going to make
14. 0:41use out of our assets. So I'm thinking
15. 0:44that we can start with Yeah, let's go
16. 0:47ahead and start with the wooden beams.
17. 0:49So we have uh three variations right now
18. 0:52downloaded from the quicksel wooden
19. 0:54beam. the first one. Let's go ahead and
20. 0:56simply add it onto our level just to see
21. 0:59how this looks like. Just going to drag
22. 1:01it up from the ground itself. So, I'm
23. 1:04just going to pick it up just a little
24. 1:06bit so we can see how it looks like. And
25. 1:08now, let's go and get all the other
26. 1:11variations of this beam as well. Just
27. 1:14going to drag it up. And then a third
28. 1:17one like so.
29. 1:20So, these ones look quite nice. And
30. 1:23actually, let's go ahead and make use
31. 1:24out of them right away. Thinking that
32. 1:26maybe for the first one, we're just
33. 1:28going to make use out of these couple
34. 1:30ones that we have. So,
35. 1:34this and this one over here.
36. 1:37And then for this one, we're actually
37. 1:39going to want to make use out of it for
38. 1:40the base foundation of underneath the
39. 1:43bridge because right now it doesn't look
40. 1:45quite as nice when it's just kind of
41. 1:47flat underneath. Even if we're looking
42. 1:49from the overview type of a camera,
43. 1:52we're not going to have quite as nice of
44. 1:54a look. So, what I'm thinking is we're
45. 1:55just going to rotate one of the beams,
46. 1:58the most the lightest one that we have.
47. 2:00Probably this one is quite short and
48. 2:02quite nice to use. So, I'm just going to
49. 2:04rotate it 90° just like that. And just
50. 2:07going to position it to be right above
51. 2:12our area for the bridge. We'll start
52. 2:15with the one that's on a a bit of a
53. 2:16higher level. I think that's going to be
54. 2:19quite all right. When we're placing it,
55. 2:21we got to make sure that this end
56. 2:23doesn't go out too far off. So, only
57. 2:25like half of the way for the plank since
58. 2:28when it usually is getting built these
59. 2:31sort of bridges. You get a plank
60. 2:33slightly extended on the back just like
61. 2:36that. So, that's going to look quite
62. 2:38nice. And looking at it now, we might
63. 2:40need to squish this entire plank down
64. 2:42just a little bit like so. And even
65. 2:46bring it to the side just like that. So,
66. 2:48we're going to get a really nice wide
67. 2:51squished up sort of a plank. And now we
68. 2:53can just put it just to the side like
69. 2:56so. And just like that, we're getting a
70. 2:59really nice result. We might want to
71. 3:01make it just a little bit thicker just
72. 3:03so it'll be kind of sitting those planks
73. 3:06sitting on the side. Just like that. And
74. 3:08I'm going to bring it to the side like
75. 3:10so. Now I'm trying to think how we're
76. 3:13going to place these main foundations
77. 3:15for those edges of our planks. And I'm
78. 3:18thinking that maybe we might just want
79. 3:20to make this even wider like so. And
80. 3:23this way it'll look like the bottom of
81. 3:26this foundation is sitting at the base
82. 3:28of this plank, which is going to look
83. 3:30quite nice. So now, even if we're
84. 3:32looking from this kind of an angle, it's
85. 3:34just going to look really nice. I think
86. 3:36actually maybe we want to make it we
87. 3:38want to make this a little bit thinner.
88. 3:40So let's go ahead and select it. And I'm
89. 3:43just going to lower this down by quite a
90. 3:46bit. And just bring it up like so.
91. 3:50And maybe just a little bit wider. Just
92. 3:54a little bit like so. Not too wide
93. 3:56though. I think that's going to help us
94. 3:58get a really nice silhouette overall. I
95. 4:00think that's going to look quite nice.
96. 4:02Let's just make sure we're putting it on
97. 4:04the right kind of ends.
98. 4:07And let's see if we get some nice edges
99. 4:10for those planks going from the side. So
100. 4:13already is looking quite nice right now.
101. 4:16Although the color is looking a little
102. 4:17bit off. We're going to be fixing that
103. 4:19in a bit. First of all, we just got to
104. 4:21make sure that we're getting a really
105. 4:22nice shape out of them. So right like
106. 4:26this. And of course, we're going to make
107. 4:28sure that it goes all the way to the
108. 4:30back. Otherwise, it's not going to look
109. 4:31quite as nice. So, let's just extend
110. 4:32this by a little bit and put this to the
111. 4:35back. We might have extended it a little
112. 4:37bit too much, though. So, let's go ahead
113. 4:39and bring this back and just put it like
114. 4:41this. We don't have to worry about it
115. 4:44kind of looping into this plank because
116. 4:46we're not going to be seeing this edge.
117. 4:47So, it kind of helps us out a little bit
118. 4:50in hiding the edge. And right now, we
119. 4:53are getting some nice result. Might want
120. 4:56to actually bring it upwards a little
121. 4:59bit.
122. 5:00I'm going to do just that. Going to
123. 5:02bring it up like so.
124. 5:05And I think that's going to look quite
125. 5:07nice all in all. All right. So now
126. 5:10before moving on, actually I like to
127. 5:12kind of bring this back just a little
128. 5:15bit. And on the other end as well. And
129. 5:18this way. Going to make sure I select
130. 5:21only one of them, which doesn't seem to
131. 5:24be working because it's not the issue of
132. 5:26having it grouped up. What we're having
133. 5:29right now is we accidentally placed a
134. 5:32static mesh, one of the static meshes
135. 5:34into its details tab. So, it treats us
136. 5:37as a sort of a blueprint. So, what I'm
137. 5:39going to do actually, I'm going to
138. 5:40select one of the static meshes in the
139. 5:42right corner like so. And I can see it
140. 5:45only has one selection. And now I'm just
141. 5:47going to delete it and redo the
142. 5:49duplication. So, I'm just going to make
143. 5:50sure I have this selected. Hold alt and
144. 5:53kind of drag this out to the side like
145. 5:55so. So, this is just an easy fix. And
146. 5:58now we have them separated and we can
147. 6:00now move them a little bit more to the
148. 6:02back. Like so. I think that's going to
149. 6:03look much nicer overall. But of course,
150. 6:07we got to make sure that these will then
151. 6:09be able to kind of sit a little bit more
152. 6:12to the back as well. So, I'm just going
153. 6:14to select them and actually going to
154. 6:17bring them back like so. That might look
155. 6:19a little better. But, of course, we got
156. 6:21to set them up with these foundations.
157. 6:24So, let's go ahead and do that. So, I'm
158. 6:26going to actually grab one of them,
159. 6:28bring it to the side like so. And now,
160. 6:31just going to position it in a way that
161. 6:33would be made use out of in this area.
162. 6:36So, actually might just want to go grab
163. 6:39both of them at once and then extend
164. 6:42them by quite a bit and then see how it
165. 6:44looks going to look like. So, already
166. 6:46it's going to look quite nice. I'm going
167. 6:47to delete this and then just see how
168. 6:50it's going to get to look like within
169. 6:53this end.
170. 6:54So, we might want to extend it by quite
171. 6:56a bit. And I think that's all right. We
172. 6:58don't have to worry about it sticking it
173. 7:00too much in the ground. We just have to
174. 7:03look at the overall result and see if it
175. 7:05looks quite nice. And I think this might
176. 7:08look really nice, but we might want to
177. 7:11make it just a little bit thicker. So,
178. 7:12the way I'm going to do it is I'm going
179. 7:14to click R and I'm going to hold the
180. 7:17area in between the red and the green
181. 7:18zones. And then I'm just going to extend
182. 7:21these two like so. So in this way, we're
183. 7:23getting a much thicker type of a pole.
184. 7:26So I think this is going to look much
185. 7:29nicer overall. So now we need to do the
186. 7:32same thing for this one as well. Just
187. 7:34going to grab it to the other end like
188. 7:36so.
189. 7:38Position it in a way that would be
190. 7:41covering this hole over here. Going to
191. 7:44delete this one.
192. 7:47Just like that.
193. 7:49And I'm going to, of course, make sure I
194. 7:51stretch it out. Just like that. So now,
195. 7:55let's just make sure that it is being
196. 7:57placed right underneath the plank that
197. 8:01we had right in the middle. I think
198. 8:03that's going to look quite nice. Going
199. 8:05to bring it up just a little bit like
200. 8:07so. And already it is looking quite
201. 8:10nice. So now, the easiest way to get
202. 8:13some variations out of these and make
203. 8:15sure it doesn't look too repetitive is
204. 8:17if you grab both of them and click
205. 8:19Ctrl+G just to make sure that they're in
206. 8:21the middle. Ctrl G. There you go. Now
207. 8:24I'm going to hold Alt, duplicate it by
208. 8:26dragging it outwards like so. Delete the
209. 8:29previous poles that we had as a
210. 8:30placement. And now, of course, they're
211. 8:33going to look too similar. So what we're
212. 8:34going to do is we're going to hit E.
213. 8:36While they're grouped up, the gizmo is
214. 8:38going to be positioned right in between
215. 8:39those two. And now if we were to rotate
216. 8:42it, we're going to get some really nice
217. 8:44results. So there you go. Now we're
218. 8:46going to select them individually just
219. 8:48like that. So now what we're going to do
220. 8:50is click W, hold alt, and make a
221. 8:53duplicate just like that. So of course
222. 8:55it's going to look exactly the same as
223. 8:58the duplicates for now. We're just going
224. 9:00to delete the foundations, the
225. 9:03placeholders. Now we got to make sure we
226. 9:05rotate them properly. Okay. So, let's go
227. 9:06ahead and simply grab each one of them
228. 9:09individually and just rotate it by
229. 9:11either like 90° or 180° sideways like
230. 9:15so. This way, we're going to get a
231. 9:17different pattern in comparison to our
232. 9:20previous pieces. And actually, I want to
233. 9:23I want to make sure I get the same kind
234. 9:26of result. So, what I'm going to do is
235. 9:27I'm even going to delete this one and
236. 9:29just make a duplicate out of the one
237. 9:31that we had previously. or even just
238. 9:33going to click Ctrl Z and make sure that
239. 9:36it is placed within the right position
240. 9:38like so. Then delete the other one. So
241. 9:40this way we're going to get a much nicer
242. 9:42kind of a look. And now I think we can
243. 9:45even set them up for the sides. But I'm
244. 9:48looking at this type of a wood beam and
245. 9:52this might actually look a little bit
246. 9:53too clean for our bridge because
247. 9:56obviously we're going to have a lot of
248. 9:57water underneath. There's going to be
249. 9:59some waves smashing in into them and
250. 10:01whatnot. And the entire bridge already
251. 10:03looks quite worn out. So this looks a
252. 10:06little bit out of place. So I think I'm
253. 10:07just going to make use out of one
254. 10:09variation. I'm going to grab the ones I
255. 10:12have done for this variation, delete
256. 10:14them, and later on we're going to make
257. 10:16use out of um I think for the roof or
258. 10:18something of that sort. But for now, I'm
259. 10:20just going to make sure I place them up
260. 10:22in the right kind of position as we had
261. 10:24them previously. So over here. And I'm
262. 10:28going to grab this one as well and place
263. 10:30it just like that. So, this is going to
264. 10:33be looking much nicer, I reckon. Of
265. 10:36course, we got to rotate them around a
266. 10:38little bit. Make sure we have a nice
267. 10:42variation in between those two. And just
268. 10:44by rotating them around and flipping
269. 10:46them up like that, we're able to get so
270. 10:48much variation out of it. It's actually
271. 10:49going to look quite nice. So, just
272. 10:51making sure that we're replacing every
273. 10:54single one of them like so.
274. 10:57And it's relatively easy to do and
275. 10:59simple. So just by doing that, we're
276. 11:01able to get some nice results out of it
277. 11:03all. And just like that, I think we can
278. 11:07also Yeah, let's go ahead and replace
279. 11:09these one. These ones as well. We're
280. 11:11going to grab a couple of those. Alt
281. 11:13alt, drag them out like so. And replace
282. 11:16them just like that. And final the final
283. 11:19one. Maybe we want we might want to grab
284. 11:24this one to be a bit further up, but
285. 11:26maybe not. Let's go ahead and keep this
286. 11:27as is. And then finally, of course, we
287. 11:30got to rotate this around like this. 90°
288. 11:33will do. And it's looking quite nice.
289. 11:37Just going to grab a couple of those.
290. 11:39Bring it to the side. Actually, we just
291. 11:42needed one. So, I'm just going to delete
292. 11:44one of them like so. Just like that. and
293. 11:47bring this to this bit as well. So just
294. 11:51like that we have some nice variation
295. 11:53and it already is looking quite nice as
296. 11:56a bridge. Now of course the bridge as it
297. 11:59is now looks quite plain and quite
298. 12:02basic. The shape itself is just too much
299. 12:04of a simple looking. So in the next
300. 12:07lesson we're going to learn how we can
301. 12:09break up this entire shape its
302. 12:11silhouette and how to set up a more
303. 12:13interesting look for the bridge. So,
304. 12:16thank you so much for watching and I'll
305. 12:17see you in a bit.