19 Setting up Edges of our Roofs — Transcript

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1. 0:05[music]
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3. 0:10>> Hello and welcome back everyone to
4. 0:12Unreal Engine 5 beginners guide to
5. 0:13building an environment. In the last
6. 0:15lesson we left it off by getting this
7. 0:17roof attachment sorted and it actually
8. 0:20looks pretty nice although looking at it
9. 0:23we have some bits that are sticking out
10. 0:25but that's going to be all right as
11. 0:27we're going to use some wood beams to
12. 0:29kind of highlight the entire frame of
13. 0:32the roof. But before doing that though,
14. 0:35I would like us to actually set up the
15. 0:36size of these roofs to have some nice
16. 0:39look to them and of course we got to
17. 0:41make sure we texture them and so let's
18. 0:43go ahead and right away do that.
19. 0:46We're going to make use out of yet
20. 0:48another Quixel texture. So let's go into
21. 0:50the Quixel Bridge like so
22. 0:53and we're going to search for something
23. 0:56called wood log
24. 0:58and we should get ourselves a category
25. 1:01list. So let's go into the categories
26. 1:02list and let's go down until we find
27. 1:06wooden log wall. So if we're not able to
28. 1:09find it because there's a lot of options
29. 1:10actually, let's type in wall as well and
30. 1:13we should be able to see a lot of
31. 1:15options. So let's just make sure we pick
32. 1:17something of this sort. I think this one
33. 1:19is the nicest one since it has so much
34. 1:21variation.
35. 1:23So let's go ahead and click on it. Make
36. 1:25sure we download it and afterwards make
37. 1:28sure to add it onto your project. And
38. 1:31once we have it within our project we
39. 1:32can now close this down and we should
40. 1:34have if we were to go onto the MegaScans
41. 1:37surfaces, we should have wooden log
42. 1:40wall. So this texture over here.
43. 1:43Now we just got to decide the way we're
44. 1:45going to set up for the front bits of
45. 1:48these walls. And I think the best way
46. 1:50would be to actually create ourselves a
47. 1:52plane custom plane for the front of
48. 1:55them. So let's go ahead and do that.
49. 1:57We're going to go on to the modeling
50. 1:59mode and within the shapes this time
51. 2:02we're going to use a simple rectangle.
52. 2:05So, by selecting on it and just placing
53. 2:08it right at the front of our roof like
54. 2:11so
55. 2:12then by clicking once and hitting
56. 2:14complete we'll be able to get ourselves
57. 2:16a nice rectangle to work with. So, if we
58. 2:19were to just bring it out just a little
59. 2:21bit
60. 2:22by getting it outwards like so, we can
61. 2:24see that it is just a simple plane that
62. 2:27we just created. And now we're able to
63. 2:29make use out of it
64. 2:30and set it up in a way to just make sure
65. 2:33we put it for the front of the building.
66. 2:35So, before doing that though, we got to
67. 2:38make sure we adjust the entire set to be
68. 2:41right in the middle and adjust it to the
69. 2:43shape of this building. So, we're going
70. 2:45to do that.
71. 2:47We're going to make use out of the tri
72. 2:48edit. Let's go ahead and select that.
73. 2:51And of course, we got to make sure that
74. 2:52this one is the one that's selected. Tri
75. 2:55edit, there you go. And now we're going
76. 2:57to make sure that only the vertices are
77. 2:59selected. So, select vertices in the
78. 3:01selection filter is selected and this
79. 3:04way we can select both the vertices on
80. 3:07the top
81. 3:08and use this green icon over here to
82. 3:12kind of squish them in a little bit like
83. 3:14so. And actually right away we can
84. 3:15actually reposition them to be right at
85. 3:18the very front like so
86. 3:21and just position it in a way that would
87. 3:23cover up this entire section of the
88. 3:25roof. So, I think we can do that.
89. 3:28And I'm just going to make sure I
90. 3:32stand it just a little bit more.
91. 3:34And we're only making sure that we
92. 3:37kind of switching the vertices the way
93. 3:40we're manipulating the entire mesh only
94. 3:44on this two planar kind of a position.
95. 3:46We're not going to bring it back or
96. 3:49forth from this roof. We're going to do
97. 3:52that later on. We're just going to make
98. 3:53sure that this entire plane is
99. 3:55completely vertical. So, we're just
100. 3:57going to make sure it's more or less in
101. 4:00the same kind of area. Then, we're going
102. 4:02to bring get the bottom ones as well.
103. 4:04Bring them all the way down.
104. 4:06And we're going to scale them up to the
105. 4:09side like so.
106. 4:11Now, if by chance your vertices don't
107. 4:14align, if they're not completely in the
108. 4:15center, we can also just select them
109. 4:18individually and kind of reposition them
110. 4:20individually like so, which might be
111. 4:23something that might be even faster, to
112. 4:26be honest, to do. So, I think that's
113. 4:28quite nice. We don't have to be perfect
114. 4:30with them. We're going to use some wood
115. 4:32planks to kind of cover up the sides
116. 4:34later on. But for now, that's going to
117. 4:36be good. Let's go ahead and click
118. 4:37accept.
119. 4:39And we got ourselves a nice plane for
120. 4:41the middle section. Of course, as you
121. 4:43can see, even with the default material,
122. 4:45there are some squares that are just
123. 4:48misaligned and the UVs for this material
124. 4:51is not going to be applied quite as
125. 4:53well. So, what we need to do is going to
126. 4:54make sure we change up the projection
127. 4:57for the UV coordinates. And the easiest
128. 4:59way for us to do that, if we scroll all
129. 5:01the way down, is by simply making use
130. 5:03out of the automatic UVs. If we simply
131. 5:05click on it, and the default settings
132. 5:07are going to be quite nice. It is a
133. 5:08simple plane. It's basically just going
134. 5:10to be a simple box projection to the
135. 5:13front of this area. If we hit accept,
136. 5:16we're going to get much nicer results
137. 5:18right away.
138. 5:19So, that is going to be quite nice. Of
139. 5:21course, that is only for the front
140. 5:23section. We need to get back and front
141. 5:25for this other area as well. And
142. 5:28actually, let's try and make use out of
143. 5:30this. Maybe it might be quite nice.
144. 5:33Just going to make a duplicate, rotate
145. 5:35it 90°,
146. 5:37and put it to the side like so.
147. 5:40The video got cut off in this section,
148. 5:41but all I did was in this area was just
149. 5:44make use out of the automatic UV unwrap,
150. 5:47and that just gave us some nice UVs. So,
151. 5:50just in the same way as we did for the
152. 5:52house itself, we just make use out of
153. 5:54the same tool, and that gives us some
154. 5:56nice way to start off our textures, and
155. 5:58then all we do is just apply the
156. 6:00material instance for the size of the
157. 6:02roofs, and then we can continue on and
158. 6:04adjust certain values from within it.
159. 6:08We're going to make sure they align. So,
160. 6:113.5
161. 6:13that's going to look quite nice. We can
162. 6:15kind of close this down, and yeah, I
163. 6:17think
164. 6:18they look quite nice. We can also even
165. 6:20make some adjustments to the way they
166. 6:22look. We can play around with a little
167. 6:24bit of intensity for it. And actually,
168. 6:26if we scroll down,
169. 6:28we have something called normal
170. 6:30strength, which is actually, if we
171. 6:32increase it, we'd get more intense of
172. 6:35bumps out of these. But I think in this
173. 6:36case, I actually want to decrease them
174. 6:38and kind of flatten them out a little
175. 6:40bit. I think they look much better in
176. 6:42that regard for what we're trying to
177. 6:44achieve. So, by setting it up to a value
178. 6:47of 0.8, I think they look much better.
179. 6:51So, let's go ahead and keep it as is.
180. 6:53Or actually, let's go ahead and keep it
181. 6:55to a 0.5 of a value.
182. 6:57I think they're going to look much nicer
183. 6:59as a result.
184. 7:00Let's go ahead and close this down, and
185. 7:02actually, sorry, let's go ahead and open
186. 7:05it up real quick and go to albedo
187. 7:06controls and lower the saturation to a
188. 7:09value of 0.8, just a little bit. I think
189. 7:11that's going to look much better as the
190. 7:14overall kind of result for this type of
191. 7:16texture.
192. 7:18And now we can finally close this down,
193. 7:19and yeah, that's going to be it. So, in
194. 7:22the next lesson, we're going to continue
195. 7:23on working this roof and kind of break
196. 7:26off some edges using some of the wood
197. 7:29ends, and in general, we're just going
198. 7:31to make the roof look really nice. So,
199. 7:33thanks so much for watching, and I'll
200. 7:35see you in a bit.
201. 7:37>> [music]
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