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0:15and welcome back everyone to Unreal
0:16Engine beginner's guide to building an
0:18environment. In the last lesson, we left
0:20it off by getting ourselves a terrain
0:22set up and we just got ourselves a nice
0:25base to work with. And now we're going
0:27to continue working on our project and
0:30set up the bridge using QuickL assets.
0:33So before doing that though, I'd like
0:34you to know that I was currently working
0:36on the scalability set to low since I'm
0:39recording and I also have a reference
0:41project opened up uh in the second
0:43screen. This is just to help me to
0:46increase my performance uh during this
0:48course. But you'll be seeing me going in
0:51between high and low just to see how
0:53visually it looks like for the project.
0:55And I can do so by clicking on this
0:57button over here and setting it from
0:59low. If I were to set it to high, I
1:01think by default it's going to be set as
1:02high. You can see the type of difference
1:04in lighting we're going to get. And of
1:06course, if you're having some issues
1:09with the performance throughout this
1:10video, just make sure to lower this from
1:12high to low. And if you're not seeing
1:15this kind of a button, because I think
1:16by default, you're not going to be
1:18seeing this. What you need to do is you
1:20need to go into the upper right corner
1:21over here and click on the settings. And
1:24then within this, you're going to find
1:26yourself an engine scalability settings.
1:28If you hover over with your mouse,
1:29you'll see the same kind of a menu that
1:31I had. So, by starting on and uh just
1:34clicking on any one of those, you should
1:36be able to get yourself a button up here
1:39on the upper left corner. Of course, you
1:41can change up the way your scalability
1:44is as well. And in general, that'll just
1:46help you to kind of work more fluently
1:50within your project. And I'm just
1:52letting you know right away though that
1:54you either want to go between low and
1:56high. You never want to go onto epic on
1:58set or cinematic in this case because
2:00these ones are like for the end results
2:02and we're going to be rendering out our
2:05entire project and that'll automatically
2:07set it up to be in cinematic mode. But
2:10by default you don't want to turn on the
2:12cinematic usually when you're working on
2:14building up your project. So either keep
2:17it on high or on low and that'll just
2:19give you the nice type of results. I
2:21think I'll keep it on high for now and
2:23in the future I might be switching that
2:25up from high to low. So yeah, going back
2:29to our project now. We're going to start
2:31on actually setting up this bridge area
2:34using Quickixel provided assets. So what
2:38is Quicksilver, you might ask? Well, by
2:41clicking on the quick to add uh to
2:43project, you're able to see a quick
2:46bridge. And what this is is basically an
2:49asset library built in within Unreal
2:51Engine. And it just has a lot of
2:53realistic props to work with. But if
2:56you're not seeing this real quick, if
2:58you're not seeing the Quixle Bridge uh
3:00asset library button in this area, what
3:03you'll have to do is you'll have to go
3:05onto edit and go on to plugins and then
3:08search for Quickixel
3:09like so. And then you'll see a quick
3:12bridge. By default, it should be
3:13enabled, but just to make sure make sure
3:16that this is enabled. And then when
3:17you're resetting it, you you should also
3:19have it within your Epic Games launcher
3:22and something underneath the version of
3:25your launcher, something called install
3:26plugins. If you click on it, you should
3:28also see the quick bridge to be within
3:31this area over here. So just make sure
3:34that this is enabled. And if it is,
3:38which by default it should be, you
3:40should have yourself a quick bridge
3:43button. And now once we press on it,
3:45we'll open up ourselves a window with
3:47the quicksell bridge assets, all of them
3:50with a bunch of different categories and
3:52whatnot. And by default, I think you
3:55should need to sign up first. So on the
3:58upper right corner, just click on the
4:01profile like this. And then you should
4:03be able to sign in because otherwise
4:05you're not able to download any of the
4:07access from the quicks bridge. you need
4:09to be signing in using the same way you
4:12signed up to your Epic Games launcher.
4:15And basically that'll just allow you to
4:17make use all of those assets for free
4:19because that is how they're linked in to
4:21your um project. But anyway, moving on.
4:24What we have on the left side is the
4:26home button, which will show you the
4:28latest items within the Quicksilver
4:30Bridge. Then the next one we have
4:32collections. What'll show you is a bunch
4:34of assets that are related to one
4:36another. And this is a nice way to get a
4:39same styled assets. And then once we go
4:42on one of them, we'll see a bunch of
4:44related assets that have everything
4:46within that collection, which is pretty
4:48nice to use. Then the next one, what we
4:51have on the left side is something
4:52called Metahumans, which is something
4:54that you might use if you want to have
4:56some characters within your scene. And
4:59afterwards, we have your favorites. I
5:00don't usually use the favorites, so it's
5:02going to be empty. And then finally we
5:04have locals which if you don't have
5:06anything downloaded you'll see this as
5:08empty. What this will do is basically
5:10when we download ourselves an asset from
5:13the quick bridge it'll store it within
5:15your computer and then afterwards you
5:17can make use out of the local storage
5:19and kind of just drag it into your scene
5:22in a really simple and quick way. But
5:25yeah going back to the uh default home
5:28screen on the top section what we have
5:30is a search bar. And the way the search
5:33bar works in this case for the quick
5:35bridge is it just has keywords that you
5:38able to search for. So every new word is
5:40going to be a separate keyword. So for
5:42example, if we want something that's
5:44wood and that's decoration,
5:47we're going to get ourselves that's
5:50something that is class classified as
5:52wood and decoration. Not only does it
5:53search something that is within the name
5:56of the asset, it also searches something
5:59on its category. So, for example, if I
6:01were to click on one of the assets like
6:03so and select it, it will get ourselves
6:06a details tab of this asset on the right
6:08side. And this will give you some nice
6:10information. But firstly, what we'll
6:12need to know is that it'll show you an
6:14image on the top right corner. And then
6:16it'll give you a name. And then
6:17afterwards, it'll give you a bunch of
6:20categorizations for this asset. So, for
6:22example, right now because we wrote in
6:24wood and decoration, you'll see that
6:25this is going to be wooden and it also
6:29has decorative tag on them. And this
6:31will basically just allow you to get all
6:33of these assets through its tags. We can
6:35even actually click on the tag itself.
6:39So, for example, if I were to click on
6:40wooden, it'll put it in the search bar
6:43right away, and it'll show you all of
6:45the assets that have that tag related to
6:47them, which is a really nice way of
6:50trying to find whichever assets you
6:52want. And going down the tab of this
6:54asset, we also have additional
6:56information. So, the size one is quite a
7:00useful tool to have, which it'll tell
7:02you basically how big an asset is. Of
7:05course, within our scene, we can just
7:08scale the size and have it in any shape
7:11of a scale that we want. But by default,
7:15we'll see that for example, this is the
7:17item on the right side. And we have a
7:20human uh an average human height in
7:23comparison. And as you can see, it will
7:26give a smaller kind of a version of a
7:29prop in comparison to the human scale.
7:32If I were to select something larger,
7:34for example, like this staircase, we can
7:37see that the size for it is going to be
7:39much larger. And so that's something to
7:42keep in mind when selecting your props.
7:45And afterwards, what we have, if we
7:47scroll down, we have related assets.
7:49Sometimes it shows you what collection
7:52it belongs to, and sometimes it shows
7:54you just an asset group and its parents
7:57of what we're able to pick from. So for
8:00example, if I were to pick another asset
8:02and see it's related assets, it's not
8:05actually going to show me the way I want
8:07it to be as an example. But let's say I
8:10want to try picking. There you go. If I
8:13try to picking module my internal start,
8:16I can see that it not only has related
8:19assets, if we scroll down a little bit,
8:20it also has related collection. So this
8:23is where it kind of has all of those
8:25items that are belonging within that
8:27environment. So that is quite nice. I
8:30don't think yeah not every collection is
8:33being assigned to an item but for
8:35example if we were to go to a mine we
8:37can see all of the items that has been
8:40used for this specific environment that
8:43we see in an image which is quite nice
8:45or when we want to have a nice kind of a
8:48group and we just want to set up
8:50environment based on those items. But
8:53yes, going back to
8:55Quicksixel Bridge and what we need right
8:57now is we're actually going to click on
8:59X to remove the search from this area.
9:02And we're going to search for a small
9:04wood boards or just we can actually
9:06search for wood boards like so. Click
9:09enter. And of course, it'll be setting
9:10it up into two categories like so. And
9:13what we'll notice is that it has uh two
9:16categories within the Quickixel Bridge.
9:18We have free assets, surface, and
9:20decals. And throughout the course, we're
9:22going to be covering all of them. But
9:24right now, we're just going to go onto
9:25the free 3D assets, which will contain
9:28all of the assets with this category.
9:31And if you notice, we are actually
9:33getting this category placed right into
9:36the search bar. And actually, we're
9:38going to get ourselves a couple of
9:40choices, but what we want is we want to
9:42make sure we get ourselves a small wood
9:45boards. Now, but because I used them
9:48previously to set up the scores, I'm
9:50going to have them downloaded. But
9:53before you should be seeing something
9:55like a download button if you don't have
9:57it downloaded to your local storage. And
10:00if you're not seeing the download button
10:02and you're only seeing sign up button,
10:04you should be clicking on it and making
10:06sure you sign up to your Epic Games
10:08launcher. And then afterwards, you'll be
10:10able to click download, which will
10:11download your item like so. And once
10:15you're done, you should have an add
10:17button highlighted. And actually, before
10:20even doing that, what I'd like to talk
10:21about is the medium quality. And by
10:24default, we're getting ourselves some
10:26nice presets for low quality, medium
10:28quality, high quality, and nanite. And I
10:31know it's tempting to start off with
10:33night straight away, but that'll give
10:35you really high resolution of texture
10:38maps. And I recommend you to not start
10:40it off right away with this one unless
10:42you want to build some really close-up
10:44shots because otherwise it's going to be
10:46quite performance heavy. So by default,
10:48I recommend you staying with the medium
10:50quality and unless you really want to
10:52get some really close-up shots, that is
10:55exactly what we're just going to be
10:56using throughout this entire course. So
10:59by sticking with the medium quality,
11:01you're going to get great results
11:02nevertheless. And then afterwards, if
11:04you want to enable nanite, we can do so
11:06later on ourselves since it's that is
11:09quite simple to do. So yeah, by simply
11:12downloading our small wood boards and
11:15then afterwards clicking add button over
11:18here, we're going to get ourselves this
11:21added onto our content browser. And I'm
11:24just going to close down the quick
11:26bridge real quick, like so. And we can
11:29see what we're going to get. By default,
11:31it should straight away drop you into
11:33this area like so. But if you're not
11:35seeing this within the content browser,
11:37you should be getting yourselves a mega
11:40scans folder. If we click on it, then
11:42it's going to give us 3D assets
11:44category. And we click on that again,
11:47then it's going to give us small
11:49woodboards folder. And if we click on
11:51that, this is exactly what is going to
11:53bring us into our content browser, which
11:56is quite nice. And yeah, before we move
11:59on though, I'd like us to set up the
12:01assets that we need to set it up for
12:03this bridge. And we're just going to go
12:05on to the quick bridge back onto its
12:08window. And we're going to get ourselves
12:10some of the assets before we continue
12:12on. So we could have everything prepped
12:14up. And I think the next one that we
12:17need is going to be something called
12:19wooden pole. So let's go ahead and
12:20search for that. And we're going to get
12:23some nice assets within it. And this is
12:25the one that we're going to need. So,
12:27let's go ahead and se select it. Old
12:29wooden pole. Then, let's go ahead and
12:31download it and then add it onto our
12:34project. Just like that. Now, because we
12:37were previously on to our old Mega Scans
12:40folder, it'll just create a new asset
12:44with a different folder and it's not
12:45going to open it up within our content
12:47browser. But just seeing this on the
12:50left hand side that it creates a new
12:52folder. We can see that it added up a
12:55new item onto our project. So going back
12:59though onto our quick bridge, we will
13:02also need something called a wooden
13:04beam. So if we were to search for wood
13:06beam like so, we'll get a couple of
13:09options. And just to limit our entire
13:11selection, we're just going to click on
13:13the 3D assets and search for our assets
13:15through this way. And by scrolling down,
13:18we're going to be able to see a couple
13:19of options for us to pick from. And the
13:22ones that we actually need are going to
13:24be the ones over here. And we're going
13:26to pick the wooden post. And we're going
13:30to pick a
13:32wooden beam,
13:34uh, another wooden beam,
13:37and worn wooden beam. So, these three,
13:40the ones that we see over here, are the
13:42ones that we're going to be using. And
13:44there are a couple of other choices
13:46which also look pretty nice actually,
13:48but these are the three choices that
13:50we're going to stick with. And actually,
13:52we have another one, the wooden post
13:54that I have it downloaded, but we're
13:55going to be using that for the house.
13:57And for now, we're just going to make
13:58sure that these three are downloaded.
14:01So, let's go ahead and once we have it
14:03downloaded within our project, we're
14:05going to click add for every single one
14:08of them. And as you can see on the left
14:10side over here on the bottom left side
14:12within our project, we're going to see
14:14our folder growing. So that's quite
14:18nice. So now we have multiple assets and
14:21each one of them has its own static
14:24mesh. So that is going to be quite nice
14:26for us to work with. And al also not
14:30only should we have those, we're going
14:32to delete our search and we're going to
14:35search for a rope as well. So, rope 3D
14:40assets and then we're going to get a
14:42couple of choices for the rope actually.
14:45And yeah, we're going to be using
14:48hanging rope bundle. This one over here.
14:51And let's go ahead and download it and
14:54click add. And afterwards, we're going
14:56to need to get ourselves a bundled rope
15:00coil. So, these ones are just going to
15:02be used as props for breaking up the
15:04edges for our bridge and just making it
15:06look nicer overall within our scene. And
15:10once we have them set up within our
15:12area, we're going to be pretty much
15:14leaving it as is. And then in the next
15:17lesson, we're going to be making use out
15:19of all of these assets that we just
15:21downloaded and added into our project
15:23and build ourselves a nice bridge to be
15:25sitting at the edge of this environment.
15:29So, thank you so much for watching and
15:31I'll see you in a bit.

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