18 Colour Correcting for Roof Attachment Textures — Transcript

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1. 0:05[music]
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3. 0:15>> Welcome back everyone to Unreal Engine
4. 0:16beginners guide to building an
5. 0:18environment. In the last lesson we left
6. 0:20it off by getting the roof tile set up
7. 0:22with using these planks as well as a
8. 0:25basic support using this type of a
9. 0:29post. And now we're going to actually
10. 0:32attach them all together using some wood
11. 0:35pieces. So, let's go ahead and get right
12. 0:37into it. I think for this one we can
13. 0:39make use out of a wooden beam perhaps.
14. 0:43Yeah, I think the wooden beam is going
15. 0:45to work really nice for us. So, let's go
16. 0:46ahead and use that right off the bat and
17. 0:49we're just going to position it in a way
18. 0:51that's going to be placed sideways.
19. 0:54But, of course we need to make sure that
20. 0:56we have the snapping tool enabled. So,
21. 0:58this way we're going to be able to
22. 1:00nicely position it sideways just like
23. 1:02that.
24. 1:03And drag it to the side.
25. 1:06And I think we can just put it in a
26. 1:09halfway through sort of a way.
27. 1:11And I think that's going to look quite
28. 1:13nice. Of course, we got to extend it to
29. 1:16make sure we have it sideways like so.
30. 1:20And the snapping tool can probably be
31. 1:22turned off for this one operation
32. 1:26or the scaling.
33. 1:28And I think we can have it just like
34. 1:29that. I think that's going to look quite
35. 1:31nice. It also has a bit of a different
36. 1:34angle on this one and I'm trying to
37. 1:35figure out if it's actually going to
38. 1:36look well or not. But, before doing that
39. 1:39I think the overall kind of a wood that
40. 1:42we have for this end is a little bit too
41. 1:45thin. So, we're going to click R and
42. 1:48extend our scale based on the X and I
43. 1:53think Z value. I think that's what it
44. 1:55is.
45. 1:56I think we're going to extend it. Oh,
46. 1:57it's going to be Z and Y value. So, this
47. 2:00bar over here, we're just going to
48. 2:02extend it. So, basically, we're not
49. 2:03going to extend it sideways
50. 2:05into its height anymore.
51. 2:08And all in all, I think that's going to
52. 2:10look quite nice. We can even just put it
53. 2:12straight into the house, the side of the
54. 2:14wall,
55. 2:15and that will make it look really nice,
56. 2:18I reckon.
57. 2:20And with these,
58. 2:22I think we can actually make a selection
59. 2:24for all of those like so, and hit Ctrl G
60. 2:27just to make sure we have them nicely
61. 2:29grouped up. Let's hit Ctrl G. I'm
62. 2:31actually going to go and change my
63. 2:33scalability from high to low. Again, if
64. 2:36you're not seeing this sort of a menu,
65. 2:39just make sure you go on to the upper
66. 2:42right corner, to the settings tab, then
67. 2:44engine scalability settings, and in
68. 2:47here, you'll basically get the same
69. 2:48menu. And once you start playing around
70. 2:49with it, you should be able to get the
71. 2:51same kind of a button in here as well.
72. 2:54So, I'll just go ahead and use the
73. 2:56scalability set as low real quick, and
74. 2:58just position my entire object like so.
75. 3:02And I think we should get these planks
76. 3:05to go underneath this roof. I think
77. 3:07it'll look much nicer that way. So, I'm
78. 3:09actually just going to position them to
79. 3:11be right underneath that roof like so.
80. 3:14And maybe you want to drag it inwards
81. 3:17just like that.
82. 3:18And all in all, that might look quite
83. 3:20nice. Although, right now, these tiles
84. 3:23aren't looking like they're going to be
85. 3:25passing through this. So, I'm actually
86. 3:27going to click R and extend them by
87. 3:29quite a bit
88. 3:30in this area.
89. 3:33Because they're grouped up, they're
90. 3:34behaving a little bit weird when I'm
91. 3:36scaling them up. So, I'm just going to
92. 3:37use this
93. 3:39kind of a mode.
94. 3:40And right now, I think this is going to
95. 3:43look quite nice.
96. 3:45Okay.
97. 3:46I think we should get this a little bit
98. 3:47to the back, though.
99. 3:49Maybe a little bit higher up.
100. 3:51And this is going to look quite nice.
101. 3:53Okay.
102. 3:54So, I'm thinking that although this is
103. 3:57looking really nice as it is, we should
104. 3:59probably get some support all going over
105. 4:01in this area as well. And I think we can
106. 4:04make use out of the same planks that we
107. 4:06had for the bottom of this area over
108. 4:09here.
109. 4:11I'm just going to select this,
110. 4:13bring it to the side,
111. 4:15and position it in the right kind of
112. 4:17way.
113. 4:18And actually, I'm just going to get the
114. 4:19default material that we had previously.
115. 4:21So, I'm going to go in the bottom right
116. 4:23corner with this selected, open up the
117. 4:26content browser for this material by
118. 4:28clicking on this button over here,
119. 4:30and just reattach the default material
120. 4:31that we had previously by dragging and
121. 4:34dropping right onto the mesh. So, this
122. 4:36was the default color that we had.
123. 4:38Since it's not going to work quite as
124. 4:41well if we had the previous bridge
125. 4:43material for this area.
126. 4:46I think I can just squish it down a
127. 4:48little bit,
128. 4:50put it to the side like so,
129. 4:52squish it
130. 4:54in regards to its height.
131. 4:56Maybe that's already looking quite nice,
132. 4:58but I don't quite like
133. 5:00the way this is being pulled out. I
134. 5:02think I'm just going to bring it to the
135. 5:04back like so.
136. 5:06Uh maybe, just maybe, no. Let's go ahead
137. 5:09and play around with it a little bit
138. 5:11until we get the right type of settings.
139. 5:13And basically, we just want to make sure
140. 5:15that this is kind of underneath this one
141. 5:19over here.
142. 5:20So, it's going to give us the right type
143. 5:21of results.
144. 5:23And actually, yeah, let's go ahead and
145. 5:25make sure to raise it up to just a
146. 5:27little bit as well.
147. 5:29Trying to make sure that this doesn't go
148. 5:31beyond this plank over here, but I just
149. 5:34want to make sure that we're kind of
150. 5:36leaving some gap over here on this end.
151. 5:39And this will just make sure it looks
152. 5:40quite nice. Or maybe we can even just
153. 5:42put it to the side.
154. 5:44Trying to think what would look more
155. 5:45realistic
156. 5:47in regards to how this house is being
157. 5:49built. And by default, if we were to
158. 5:51just leave it as is because I had this
159. 5:54house set up like this,
160. 5:56it's going to be sticking out. So, maybe
161. 5:57I'll just bring it all the way down.
162. 6:00Yeah, I think this is going to look
163. 6:01quite all right in regards to how this
164. 6:03is being set up.
165. 6:05Going to bring it even back even more.
166. 6:08Yeah, I think this is going to look
167. 6:08quite nice. Going to turn off the
168. 6:10scalability from low to go back to high
169. 6:13just to see how the colors are going to
170. 6:15look like. And I think this is the
171. 6:17moment where we actually need to switch
172. 6:18up the colors a little bit. So, let's go
173. 6:20ahead and do that actually.
174. 6:22Going to select this entire area. Going
175. 6:25to actually
176. 6:27make sure that we ungroup them all
177. 6:29because otherwise we can't make use out
178. 6:32of the materials like this. So, we're
179. 6:35going to hold control uh shift and A G
180. 6:38to ungroup them.
181. 6:41And now we should be able to
182. 6:43Yeah, I think now we should be able to
183. 6:45just select them all like so.
184. 6:48Just one by one. And once we have them
185. 6:50all selected, the material because
186. 6:52they're using the same material, it's
187. 6:53going to be this one.
188. 6:55I'm going to actually make sure I open
189. 6:58up this within the content browser.
190. 7:01And actually
191. 7:04I think I'll just
192. 7:05The default one was the second one, the
193. 7:08material instance that we created as the
194. 7:10second one. So, I'm going to select
195. 7:11this. Click control C, control V, and
196. 7:13make a duplicate out of that. So, now we
197. 7:15have a fourth material instance for
198. 7:17that. And we have all of those boards
199. 7:18selected. So, all we got to do is drag
200. 7:20and drop this into the materials tab on
201. 7:22the right-hand side. And this way we'll
202. 7:25be able to change them all up.
203. 7:27Now, if we by any chance had multiple uh
204. 7:31planks selected with uh the variation of
205. 7:33materials, so for example, like this
206. 7:35plank over here over here had a
207. 7:37different variation comparison in
208. 7:39comparison to this one over here cuz we
209. 7:41wanted to kind of brighten it up.
210. 7:43What we can do is once we have them
211. 7:45selected, uh click display to materials
212. 7:48and it'll show you two elements and just
213. 7:50basically make sure you replace that
214. 7:52material both of these material
215. 7:53instances with one of those that we just
216. 7:56copied and pasted and created a new
217. 7:58material instance. So,
218. 8:01if you have multiple material instances,
219. 8:03basically just make sure you replace
220. 8:04both of them. But, I just so happened to
221. 8:07when I made a copy out of them, I had a
222. 8:11one material instance, which made a
223. 8:12process just a little bit faster. But,
224. 8:15yeah. Going back to the material
225. 8:17instance, let's go ahead and open it up
226. 8:19right away and make some adjustments to
227. 8:21it.
228. 8:22And I think this one should be a little
229. 8:26bit I'm going to actually enable albedo
230. 8:28tint and albedo controls and right away
231. 8:30I think I'll just lower the saturation
232. 8:32by quite a bit actually
233. 8:34to a value of 0.7 maybe 0.8.
234. 8:39Yeah, I think 0.8 is going to be quite
235. 8:41all right.
236. 8:43Going to darken them up by quite a bit.
237. 8:470.5
238. 8:49Already looking quite nice. Maybe even
239. 8:51lower the saturation even more.
240. 8:530.5 No, 0.6 0.7.
241. 8:570.7 will do.
242. 8:59And albedo tint,
243. 9:01let's get some brownish tint like so.
244. 9:04Not too much though. So, I'm just going
245. 9:06to
246. 9:07lower the saturation to this amount just
247. 9:10a little bit.
248. 9:11It's going to give us some really nice
249. 9:13results.
250. 9:14So, it'll just make sure that we have a
251. 9:16more or less the same kind of a color
252. 9:18tint throughout all of these boards
253. 9:19because some of them were as you can see
254. 9:22uh just too much variation in them and
255. 9:26in return we get them to look way too
256. 9:28noisy.
257. 9:30So, right now we have this sort of a
258. 9:32setup. And I think right now
259. 9:35we can even increase the contrast or
260. 9:38maybe lower it. Let's try lowering this
261. 9:39down and see how that would look like.
262. 9:42Maybe that actually would look quite
263. 9:43nice.
264. 9:44Of course, it uh it'll change the entire
265. 9:46color, so
266. 9:47we need to be mindful on when we're
267. 9:50changing this.
268. 9:52So, I think the contrast can be lowered
269. 9:55by quite a bit.
270. 9:562.8 That'll just give us a more of a
271. 9:59bland-looking color for this area. I
272. 10:02think that's going to be much nicer. And
273. 10:04of course, we need to lower the
274. 10:05brightness. But in regards to the
275. 10:07brightness, we can probably use the tint
276. 10:09and just lower it like so. And that'll
277. 10:11give us Yeah, that'll give us a real
278. 10:13nice result in regards to the wood. I
279. 10:15think that just makes it look so much
280. 10:18nicer. So, as you can see, this area for
281. 10:20the water for the bridge has a more of a
282. 10:23gritty, dirty-looking um setup. It has a
283. 10:27sort of a even I could say like a moss
284. 10:29type of a texture, but this one is a
285. 10:32more of a smooth texture. It just makes
286. 10:34it look so much nicer. And it just looks
287. 10:36like it's been dried up by the sun and
288. 10:38just kind of bleached out by the overall
289. 10:40weather of being on top of the roof. So,
290. 10:44I think all in all,
291. 10:46this will look much better.
292. 10:48But of course, we need to make
293. 10:50adjustments to these wood supports as
294. 10:52well. Quite a look. They look quite all
295. 10:54right, but we need to make sure we just
296. 10:56adjust them just a little bit. I think
297. 10:58we need to darken them up just a little
298. 11:00bit to make them look nicer. So, we're
299. 11:02going to open up the texture. We're
300. 11:04going to make a duplicate out of it.
301. 11:05We're going to attach this duplicate.
302. 11:07And now we're going to go right into it
303. 11:10and adjust the albedo controls. I think
304. 11:13we can just lower down this brightness
305. 11:15by quite a bit.
306. 11:17And we can probably change up the
307. 11:19saturation.
308. 11:22And how about the contrast?
309. 11:25Two? Nope.
310. 11:270.5? Nope. 0.8?
311. 11:290.1.4? I'm playing around with the
312. 11:31values. Usually, the best way to check
313. 11:33how the texture would look like is to
314. 11:35check the extreme values on both ends
315. 11:38and see what exactly is being affected
316. 11:41within this parameter. And usually,
317. 11:44based on the type of texture you're
318. 11:45having, it's going to give us
319. 11:47often like different types of results
320. 11:49based on the coloring of the texture.
321. 11:52So, right now, I think contrast 1.2 is
322. 11:54going to look quite nice. I think it
323. 11:56actually makes it look really nice,
324. 11:59actually. So, let's go ahead and keep it
325. 12:00as is.
326. 12:02Now, finally, we've got to make sure
327. 12:03that these beams have the same type of a
328. 12:06setup. So, we're going to open this up.
329. 12:09Go and
330. 12:10apply a different texture. So, I'm just
331. 12:13making sure we are within this folder.
332. 12:15Selecting this, control C, control V.
333. 12:18And probably apply onto this edge.
334. 12:22And now, we're going to darken it up. We
335. 12:24can probably make use out of the same
336. 12:26settings we had previously. So, I'm
337. 12:27going to select this, actually go back
338. 12:29onto its folder. And now, we're going to
339. 12:32double-click on this. And what we can do
340. 12:34is we can right-click on the albedo
341. 12:36controls, like so. Select copy
342. 12:40like this, and we basically copy all the
343. 12:42values for the albedo controls. So, now
344. 12:45if we close this down, go back onto the
345. 12:47settings for this one, open this up,
346. 12:49make sure that this is a duplicate
347. 12:51material instance.
348. 12:53Go open this up, like so.
349. 12:55We can enable albedo controls,
350. 12:57right-click, and hit paste. And this
351. 13:00way, it'll basically ensure that it
352. 13:02gives us the same kind of adjustments
353. 13:04that we had previously, because it was
354. 13:06more or less
355. 13:07similar-looking texture
356. 13:09to this pole over here. It actually
357. 13:11gives us more or less the similar kind
358. 13:13of a look as well. So, that is quite
359. 13:15nice. And we can try doing the same for
360. 13:17this pole as well, actually. So, let's
361. 13:20go ahead and open this up. Control C,
362. 13:21control V, make a duplicate. Drag this
363. 13:24right onto its mesh.
364. 13:25Open it up. Adjust the albedo controls.
365. 13:28Right click, paste.
366. 13:30And we should
367. 13:32if we do it properly, that is. It's not
368. 13:35I think it messed it up somehow. I'm
369. 13:37going to go back onto the
370. 13:40uh
371. 13:41material instance that we had
372. 13:42previously. By the way, we can double
373. 13:43click on this icon over here and just
374. 13:45straight up open up the material
375. 13:47instance. And I'm going to right click,
376. 13:49copy, go back onto the material instance
377. 13:52that we just copied, open it up, and
378. 13:54right click and paste. Now it works.
379. 13:57Okay, perfect. But [snorts] I think it's
380. 13:58a little bit too dark
381. 14:00for this one. So, I'm actually going to
382. 14:02increase the brightness to 0.7.
383. 14:04I think now it looks quite nice,
384. 14:05actually.
385. 14:07It looks like it's part of the same
386. 14:09weathering system and like it's just
387. 14:11been built in the same span of time and
388. 14:14it has the same type of a look as the
389. 14:17upper parts of this wood, which is quite
390. 14:20nice. So, yeah, I think we're pretty
391. 14:21much done with the roof. So, thank you
392. 14:23so much for watching and in next lesson
393. 14:24we're actually going to start off by
394. 14:27breaking up this roof a little bit more.
395. 14:28Although, we have some textures for the
396. 14:30sides of the roof, obviously it's just
397. 14:32too plain looking. So, yeah, that's what
398. 14:35we're going to do in the next lesson.
399. 14:36So, thank you so much for watching and
400. 14:37I'll see you in a bit.
401. 14:42>> [music]