20 Modeling Default Meshes — Transcript

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1. 0:05[music]
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3. 0:16>> Hello and welcome back everyone to
4. 0:17Unreal Engine 5 beginners guide to
5. 0:18building an environment. In the last
6. 0:20lesson we left it off by setting a
7. 0:22little bit more off this roof and
8. 0:24getting some texture in for it. And now
9. 0:26we're going to set up some supports for
10. 0:29this roof. So, before doing that though,
11. 0:31I'm going to turn off my modeling mode.
12. 0:34So, I'm just going to go on to the upper
13. 0:35left corner, go to select mode like so,
14. 0:38and I think I might actually just lower
15. 0:40the content browser as well since we
16. 0:42don't need it this much at this moment.
17. 0:45And right now what we're going to do is
18. 0:46actually, I think we're going to start
19. 0:48off by getting ourselves the
20. 0:51things that we're going to use. So,
21. 0:52within MegaScans folder, within the free
22. 0:55assets group, we're going to go and get
23. 0:58ourselves a wooden beam.
24. 1:00Just trying to think which one would
25. 1:02look the best in this case. Maybe it's
26. 1:04this one. That might look quite nice.
27. 1:07Yeah, okay. We're going to start with
28. 1:08the wooden beam that we had.
29. 1:10And that's going to look quite nice for
30. 1:12the base sides. It's just going to help
31. 1:15us to break it down. It doesn't have too
32. 1:16much of an intense detail in comparison,
33. 1:18for example, to this beam over here. And
34. 1:21it's just a nice simplistic sort of a
35. 1:23looking mesh. So, we're going to
36. 1:25actually make use out of that.
37. 1:27We're going to drag it to the side like
38. 1:29so.
39. 1:31Make sure we have it selected first.
40. 1:33And then we're just going to drag it
41. 1:35like so.
42. 1:36And now we're going to actually position
43. 1:38it
44. 1:39to the side of the roof. And I think
45. 1:41we'll start on by having it set
46. 1:44vertically. Or actually, sorry. Let's
47. 1:46start by doing it the horizontal lines
48. 1:48instead. I think that's going to be much
49. 1:50easier to start it off. So, let's go
50. 1:52ahead and have it selected.
51. 1:54Let's rotate it 90 degrees with the
52. 1:56snapping tool enabled, of course.
53. 1:58And we're going to position it to our
54. 2:01side.
55. 2:02Now, I think by default, this beam is a
56. 2:04little bit too thick for us, so we're
57. 2:05going to click R and we're going to
58. 2:10I think we're going to Yeah, we're just
59. 2:11going to squish it down. So, let's go
60. 2:12ahead and have it selected and then have
61. 2:15this
62. 2:16gizmo behave like that.
63. 2:18So, by just dragging this down,
64. 2:20we're going to get this sort of a beam,
65. 2:22which I think is going to be quite nice.
66. 2:25All we need to do now is stretch it out
67. 2:27a little bit.
68. 2:28Not too much, though. I think that's
69. 2:29going to be quite all right.
70. 2:31And now we're just going to attach it to
71. 2:33the side of our roof.
72. 2:35So, in regards to how we want to attach
73. 2:37it, it really depends on the way we want
74. 2:40our roof to be broken down, but because
75. 2:42we have some tiling of the texture
76. 2:44coming from the top and our main camera
77. 2:47is going to be more or less focused from
78. 2:50a higher perspective, we want to make
79. 2:51sure we break apart some of those edges.
80. 2:54So, we want to make sure that we leave a
81. 2:56bit of a gap in this area over here.
82. 2:59And I think that'll do the trick. Maybe
83. 3:01a little bit lower down.
84. 3:03And that might look a little bit better
85. 3:05even.
86. 3:06Something like that.
87. 3:07I think that'll work.
88. 3:09So, now we just want to make sure we
89. 3:10stretch it out all the way through end.
90. 3:13And let's go ahead and do that.
91. 3:15Just going to stretch it just a little
92. 3:16bit more like so.
93. 3:18Put it to the side
94. 3:20and see how this looks.
95. 3:23So, we're not worried about the end too
96. 3:24much because we're going to be having
97. 3:26another plank going diagonally as well.
98. 3:29So, we don't need to worry about it too
99. 3:31much.
100. 3:32And I think we just stretch it out a
101. 3:34little bit more even so. And that might
102. 3:38do the trick. I think that's going to
103. 3:40look good.
104. 3:42Now, let's make sure we do it on the
105. 3:43other side as well.
106. 3:45I'm just going to grab this entire
107. 3:46plank, duplicate it, put it on the side
108. 3:49like so.
109. 3:51Then rotate this around 90°.
110. 3:54And we're just going to grab it back.
111. 3:56Seems like it's been rotated all the way
112. 3:58to the end like so.
113. 4:00And just position our other beam in the
114. 4:03other side.
115. 4:05Of course, we need to I think raise this
116. 4:07up a little bit this time to make sure
117. 4:09we don't have any of the ends
118. 4:12sticking through for this type of roof.
119. 4:15For this attached roof that we have at
120. 4:17the front.
121. 4:18And
122. 4:19it actually helps us out quite a bit
123. 4:20because this beam ends up sitting on top
124. 4:23of the other beam, which is quite nice.
125. 4:25It's the way it would be built if we had
126. 4:28it on
127. 4:30it in real life. So, for example, if the
128. 4:33beams were to support this roof,
129. 4:35we'd have it something like that. Now,
130. 4:36I'm trying to figure out why it's doing
131. 4:38it
132. 4:40in a weird kind of way. I'm going to
133. 4:42deselect it and select it back. Now, try
134. 4:44to expand it and it seems like I'm
135. 4:46having a bit of an issue while
136. 4:48scaling this up. And I'm just going to
137. 4:50look at my
138. 4:51folder and I see like both of these are
139. 4:54within the same object. So, I messed it
140. 4:56up while making a duplicate out of it.
141. 4:58Just going to go ahead and select the
142. 5:00static mesh like so.
143. 5:03And then I'm just going to delete it
144. 5:04because
145. 5:05we don't want this to happen. So,
146. 5:08I'm going to delete it just like that.
147. 5:09Make a duplicate out of it. And
148. 5:12hopefully, again, I messed it up. Seems
149. 5:14like it gets selected the static mesh
150. 5:16component. So, I'm just going to
151. 5:17deselect it and select the beam back up.
152. 5:19And now the selection is going to be set
153. 5:21within the instance itself and not the
154. 5:24static mesh component.
155. 5:26So, now when we make a duplicate, we can
156. 5:29see that it just makes a duplicate
157. 5:30within our outliner. So, that's quite
158. 5:33all right. So, if you're having the same
159. 5:34kind of an issue every once in a while,
160. 5:36just make sure you deselect it and
161. 5:38select it back onto the mesh. And that
162. 5:40should fix the issue.
163. 5:42So, right now I'm just going to
164. 5:44raise it up a little bit just like I did
165. 5:45previously.
166. 5:47Put it to the side like so, and of
167. 5:49course we need to stretch it a little
168. 5:51bit outwards like so.
169. 5:54Now, on this end, we might not want it
170. 5:56to be a sharp because we're stretching
171. 5:59out so much, we're going to get this
172. 6:01angle to be quite extreme, but I think
173. 6:04that might still be okay. Worst case, we
174. 6:06can always rotate it around when we're
175. 6:08building the diagonal edges for this
176. 6:11roof. So, I think for now we're just
177. 6:13going to leave it as is.
178. 6:15And now, of course we need to do the do
179. 6:18the other end as well. So, let's go
180. 6:20ahead and do that.
181. 6:21I'm just going to grab this one over
182. 6:23here,
183. 6:24and just holding alt,
184. 6:26put it on the other end like so.
185. 6:29You can just attach it just like that.
186. 6:33And I think in this case,
187. 6:35because we're having such a long roof,
188. 6:36we're just going to actually shrink this
189. 6:38entire beam down. So, when I see the
190. 6:40scale for this area, and it's already
191. 6:43being double the size, and we're getting
192. 6:45some stretched out textures, so we don't
193. 6:46want this to happen. Although, this is
194. 6:49somewhat of a small instance, and we're
195. 6:51not going to get too close to it. We
196. 6:53just need to make sure we have an
197. 6:54overall kind of a shape and overall
198. 6:56texture to be set up properly. So, even
199. 6:58if we were to stretch it out across the
200. 7:00roof, we'd probably be able to get away
201. 7:02with it. But, just to be on the safe
202. 7:04side, we're going to make a duplicate
203. 7:06out of it.
204. 7:08And I'm just going to hold alt, drag it
205. 7:10to the left side like so.
206. 7:12And I think it's going to be a little
207. 7:13bit too big at this moment, so I'm just
208. 7:15going to
209. 7:16position it so they'll be next to one
210. 7:18another.
211. 7:19Grab both of them and shrink them both
212. 7:21down.
213. 7:22Just like that.
214. 7:24I think that's going to
215. 7:26Maybe we need a little bit more
216. 7:27actually.
217. 7:29Or we could just shove it to the side
218. 7:30like so,
219. 7:32and that might do the trick.
220. 7:34Now, looking at it though, this roof
221. 7:36seems like it has a bit of a gap. It's
222. 7:38actually quite an easy fix right now, so
223. 7:40I'm just going to grab this one
224. 7:42and
225. 7:43just going to stretch it out. I don't
226. 7:44think there's going to be much of an
227. 7:46issue even if you do it just a little
228. 7:48bit because it's such a small gap that
229. 7:50we don't even have to worry about it.
230. 7:52Or, actually, better yet, if we go to
231. 7:54modeling mode,
232. 7:55just going to modeling mode like so,
233. 7:59going to triangle edit,
234. 8:01making sure that the
235. 8:03vertices are selected and the edges and
236. 8:06faces are deselected, then I'm just
237. 8:08going to grab this side and simply drag
238. 8:10it out like so.
239. 8:12And usually that might cause an issue
240. 8:14because we have a duplicate on the other
241. 8:17side, but because this other side is
242. 8:20going into the roof itself, that's not
243. 8:22going to be an issue for us. So, all we
244. 8:25got to do is hit accept and that'll fix
245. 8:27an issue.
246. 8:29Or, it should be.
247. 8:31But, we cannot modify this mesh because
248. 8:34it's actually a I'm just going to try
249. 8:36doing that again, actually.
250. 8:38Going to make sure we have it selected.
251. 8:40Hit triangle edit
252. 8:42and see what happens.
253. 8:44Accept. Yes, we cannot modify a built-in
254. 8:47engine asset of basic shapes. So, what
255. 8:50is happening right now is because we set
256. 8:53this mesh up as a basic instance, we're
257. 8:56going to have this sort of an issue. So,
258. 8:58I think the easiest way would be, in
259. 8:59order to fix that, we're just going to
260. 9:01go within our details tab. Just going to
261. 9:04lower this down a little bit.
262. 9:05So, going to have this mesh selected
263. 9:09and find the static mesh that should be
264. 9:12within this details tab.
265. 9:14So, the plane over here.
266. 9:17Now, we're going to go ahead and simply
267. 9:19go browse to plane in content browser,
268. 9:22which should pop us in within the engine
269. 9:24content basic shapes folder. And if
270. 9:27you're not seeing this, just in case, go
271. 9:29into the settings tab for the content
272. 9:31browser like so,
273. 9:33and make sure you have show engine
274. 9:34content and show plugins enabled. With
275. 9:37having those two, you're able to now go
276. 9:39into the folders for the default engine
277. 9:42content, and usually I'll warn you right
278. 9:45away though that you don't want to
279. 9:46change anything within these folders,
280. 9:48and instead you just want to make
281. 9:50duplicates out of them. So, right now if
282. 9:52I were to select this plane like so,
283. 9:54click control C, then go back into my
284. 9:56content browser,
285. 9:58and we're just going to go click all,
286. 10:01click content and generated, and we can
287. 10:03just go and paste it into next to our
288. 10:06other static meshes. So, now that we
289. 10:08have it like so, we can have a plane and
290. 10:10just replace this plane with the one
291. 10:13that we have it selected, and now it's
292. 10:15going to show us that it is located
293. 10:18within our phone folder that we have all
294. 10:20all of our static meshes generated.
295. 10:23So, now once we have it like so, we can
296. 10:25go to triangle edit and grab these edges
297. 10:28like so, move them to the side.
298. 10:31Seems like I
299. 10:32made a misselection, so I'm just going
300. 10:33to cancel it. Make a selection for the
301. 10:36square for the plane,
302. 10:38then make a selection for all of these
303. 10:40vertices to the side,
304. 10:41and
305. 10:43drag it entirely like so to the edge.
306. 10:46And because we replaced this static mesh
307. 10:48with our own one, we're going to hit
308. 10:51accept, and the other one that was
309. 10:53duplicate is not going to be changed.
310. 10:56And that is because we basically changed
311. 10:59up the way that material instance is
312. 11:02being used. So, right now this is the
313. 11:04plane that is being used by this side,
314. 11:06while the other side
315. 11:08is having a different plane, the
316. 11:10original one that we had previously. So,
317. 11:13that is one way of fixing the roof, and
318. 11:15one way of adjusting it even if we don't
319. 11:19use a default static shape that we had
320. 11:22previously. We can always just switch
321. 11:24that up with our own custom static
322. 11:26shape, and then
323. 11:28make adjustments to it that way.
324. 11:30So, anyway I'm just going to go and turn
325. 11:32off the modeling mode like so and finish
326. 11:34off the borders for this roof. So I
327. 11:36think I'm just going to make a selection
328. 11:37out of these two. Just expand it just a
329. 11:40little bit more
330. 11:41and just going to drag it out to the
331. 11:44side like so. Actually just going to
332. 11:46turn off the scale ability to low. I
333. 11:48think I'm having some performance issues
334. 11:50at the moment.
335. 11:52There you go.
336. 11:54So I'm just going to stretch it out a
337. 11:56little bit,
338. 11:57put it to the side like so. Maybe
339. 12:00a little bit more.
340. 12:02I think that's going to be all right.
341. 12:03Now of course we need to do it for the
342. 12:05other end as well. So I'm just going to
343. 12:06hold alt and drag it
344. 12:09to the edge like so. Make sure we turn
345. 12:12this around 90 degrees
346. 12:14and put it to the side since it's also
347. 12:16quite a long type of a roof. I think
348. 12:18that's going to be all right.
349. 12:20We're just going to make sure we have it
350. 12:22set properly. I think this has to be a
351. 12:24little bit lower down
352. 12:26like so. That's going to be quite all
353. 12:28right.
354. 12:29And we're just going to place it right
355. 12:30on the side.
356. 12:32And actually
357. 12:33by the looks of it we might need to have
358. 12:35three beams over here. So I'm just going
359. 12:36to hold alt, make a duplicate out of it,
360. 12:39put it to the side like so.
361. 12:42Grab all three of them and squish them
362. 12:44down a little bit and I think that's
363. 12:46going to look quite nice all in all.
364. 12:49So we're just going to make sure we
365. 12:51cover all the ends
366. 12:54just like that.
367. 12:57And I think that's going to look quite
368. 12:58nice. So even though we're having some
369. 13:00gaps because they're so nicely set up,
370. 13:02we're going to have it made look like
371. 13:04they're just different chunks of wood
372. 13:06and that's actually going to add a
373. 13:07little bit of an extra detail towards
374. 13:09our house, towards our little hut. So
375. 13:11yeah, that's going to look quite all
376. 13:13right.
377. 13:14We're going to end our lesson now and in
378. 13:16the next one we're going to continue
379. 13:17with the roof and set up some diagonal
380. 13:19beams to go across our roof section over
381. 13:21here. So thank you so much for watching
382. 13:23and I'll see you in a bit.
383. 13:28>> [music]
384. 13:33>> Mhm.