Thanks for watching! If you have any questions or things you want to discuss feel free to leave a comment (:

@maciejklosowski6006

8 ай бұрын

Very realistic, i picked up a few tricks along the way. Whats your take on using plane with high-res image VS dome HDRI (i.e HDRI backdrop) in projects like this? Thanks.

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

@@maciejklosowski6006 for this project I did play around with some HDRIs but ended up going with the image. It offered enough resolution and it looked good.

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

@@YEAHSURETHINGMAN no. Don't want to sell/giveaway assets that aren't mine :)

@nazmhikmet5500

8 ай бұрын

First of all hello, your work is very realistic. I graduated from university and I will work with unreal engine soon. What kind of computer do I need to use to do this job as realistically as you do? If possible, could you please explain the features of the computer you are using?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

@@nazmhikmet5500 hey thanks! You can find my computer specs in the videos description. However my machine is getting old. If you have the money I would suggest Pudget Systems for a computer.

Wow, that’s probably the best looking natural environment I’ve seen in UE period. Well done and thanks for sharing.

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Hey thanks that means a lot!

@DeadpanNorwegian

2 ай бұрын

It's not a playable area. It only looks good from this one shot. This one frame. Very fake.

Incredible insight into the creation of an absolutely awesome looking environment. Thanks for taking the time to not only tutor, but also provide access to the project files, something almost nobody else does - at least without a paywall. Many thanks!!!

Incredible tutorial, Gabe! Your clear and thoughtful guidance has propelled me to the next level. Eagerly anticipating your upcoming projects in the near future.

I don't know how I'm just now seeing this. Absolutely stunning work on the project and a video to match it!! Wow

Your approach to environments and techniques really helped me build a portfolio that got me a environment artist job. Keep up the good work, Gabe!

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Hey thats awesome to hear!

This presentation was beautiful. I love that you described the entire workflow and only highlighted key information. This is also the first time i actually use every software mentioned in a tutorial. Usually i have to download something and am greeted by yet another learning curve 😂

That's exactly what I needed to learn! I have experience creating large scale landscapes in Blender, but have little experience transfering that knowledge to UE. Thank you for making such valuable content!

I love your voice, I love your content. Very straight to the point. That being said coming from a Video Game Background a couple of tricks can't really be used, unless it's for a narrative gameplay where the player cannot move freely. But who cares, it's gorgeous, thank you so much for this video.

Amazing result, thank you for the short tutorial version! I really appreciate it. Always want to learn more)

Awesome stuff! Really loved the final look.

I've been looking for something like this, looks amazing!

Excellent. Both the scene and the tutorial. Thank-you

Great work! Thanks to show us this long process way to great view of mountain.

The addition of 3D geometry to the landscape is a great point. I’ve used 3D meshes in my environments, but hadn’t thought of little spot treatments to break up the more man made looking landscape areas.

This is so rad, coming from someone who knows hardly anything about unreal, i was still able to learn so much about how its done. Incredible job man. Also, this is so cool lol 10:13

@gabetandy

5 ай бұрын

LOL Joey

Looks like something out of RDR3, amazing work!

Amazing work as always Gabe! Love seeing more people use pathtracing. I just wish the pathtracer supporter various atmos effects and volumetrics!

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Appreciate it William! Just give it time :wink:

@antoniosuarez7881

8 ай бұрын

tell to the auto exposure no, Bad Dog!!

love it. some small movement in the nearest trees wouldn't go amiss

I just began my UE journey last week and oh boy I can't thank you enough for your work. This is exactly what I needed to keep going ! Keep up the good work mate and cheers from France !

@marvin2678

Күн бұрын

what do you plan on doing with it?

Great work! Keep these tutorials regarding landscapes in UE5 coming ;)

Glad u listed you machine spec. Nice T know things are achievable on common specs😊

wow this is amazing!! thank you so much for sharing great tutorial!!

Brilliant work and presentation. Kudos.

That looks phenomenal. Good job!

Is this what Red Dead Redemption 3 will look like?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Oh man that would be sick!

@djh345

7 ай бұрын

The only issue to making this happen is actual characters. Enviroment has gotten alot further than photorealism with animations on human chars.

@the-secrettutorials

7 ай бұрын

@@djh345 I'd be fine with Metahumans... But it's Rockstar, so I hope they are able to pull it off this time :P Everything else looked great already

@leonelorellana7859

5 ай бұрын

I don't think so, we haven't see what rage engine is capable of, for right now unreal engine is the most photorealistic graphic engine in my opinion,

@IwinMahWay

3 ай бұрын

Better

Welcome back, it's been awhile. The only KZread channel I subscribed to with only 1 video... Now you've got two!

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

LOL

Hey im pretty new to unreal (but 4 years of unity and have 10 years of programming experience), I love this video but I think alot of people could profit from an in depth tutorial because it would be a good starting point. Would love to use this in game dev. I think a "Create a photorealistic game mountain landscape in UE5" would do well since alot of people using the unreal engine want to make games or videos. Still a great video i really enjoyed watching it and it has a super great result! Still I'll try to replicate what you have done, but from my experience with unreal you can run into different problems with different tools at any point and it can cost hours of research (which is not lost knowledge but still a full tutorial would be great) :)

beautiful result thanks for sharing

That looks amazing. Great job.

Wow, thats looks great! Thanks for the tutorial!

Hey man. Great video. I saw your artstation page. And I have to say your "who shot the sheriff" and "Hanged man's tree" look amazing. Great work 👍

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Thank ya!

2nd video on the channel, but still AWESOME! I'm glad that I'm subscribed already :)

this is insane, good work man

Amazing work! I've been really looking for an excuse to get into Gaea recently - this might be it!

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Do it!!

Thank you very much for sharing with us!!!

Fantastic video, Gabe! Love it!

when I first saw the movie The Good Dinosaur , I was very impressed by the natural scenes and from then I started learning Blender and 3d stuffs. My dreams was to create similar environment like the movies and damn this is the most similar to that one. Waw!! this is awesome you have created a very beautiful landscape and you are very skilled.

Amazing work Gabe!!

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Don't stop posting! you make great content!

Ficou incrível! Parabéns!

Amazing work man!

Great Job !! Thanks for sharing Bro !!

love these tutorial bro

Awesome video. Please make the full length video with step by step as a playlist

Wow brilliant work

This would be amazing to walk through in VR!

@leezhieng

8 ай бұрын

A lot of changes are needed to make it run on VR. I did a VR project recently on Unreal 5.2 and any translucent shader will crash the application when launched on VR. That's just one example of many other things that cannot be run on VR at least for now.

hi Gabe ... SUPERB job ! grats ;)

awesome tut!

For anyone downloading the Gaea file, in community version at least, make sure in the slope node, before the penultimate combine, to uncheck the "classic style" beneath the falloff slider. This needs to be done so that the masking is correct to import into unreal.

Lovely work.

Very impressive.

Really cool!

Great video Gabe! Are the foliage and trees static? Or moving subtlety?

You nailed it!

Great work!

Great work Gabe! Looks amazing. Just curious why you didn't bring in the elevation data into Gaea to generate the terrain?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

The elevation data is pretty low res and its hard to add details to it in Gaea. Much easier and more detailed to make a terrain from scratch.

Lovely stuff!

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Hey thanks dude! Love your environments

Awesome 👍💪👏

做得真好，感谢你的分享！👍

Thank you Gabe, super tutorial and a beautiful landscape. Could one make a game out of a map like this, with such level of detail?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

You could, just need some talent and a beefy machine to run it at real-time!

Gabe, thank you for this video, which is brilliant educational content. I am learning a lot about this currently and want to ask. do you have any additional courses/lessons or material available for learning purposes? Looking forward, to your response. Thank you.

@gabetandy

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! You can see my PC specs in the description. This is the only learning material I have made so far.

This is great to bad you could not sell this whole map on the unreal store I would buy it keep up the great work.

Great work! Is there are way to add some wind to the trees?

wow, that would make a great hunting game map! ;0 😵😮

@gabetandy

2 ай бұрын

REAL!

Very nice 👍 thx

im so happy

The video is awesome, thanks for it! But I have a question) How did you make such detailed ground material up close? If you used satellite data nearby?

there is a big part I seem to be missing, did all the landscape textures import from blender? how did it grab those from height map data?

Thank y💕 u.... Plz more video s plz

man.. u just passed the creativity way beyond the limit peak .. 100 star out of 5 .. keep it up dude.. one question dude .. i have GPU RX7900xtx and CPU Ryzen9 7900x3D .. can i use them for this type of modification ?

@gabetandy

5 ай бұрын

Hey thanks. As long as you can use ray tracing in Unreal you can!

Any reason you import the terrain as a static mesh as opposed to using the landscape of UE5? / Do you use the virtual textures to blend the quixxel assets? great video:)

@gabetandy

7 ай бұрын

I find working with static meshes easier than setting up landscapes (:

Great tutorial! Do have any tutorials about making the twigs?

@gabetandy

7 ай бұрын

I don't, I just learned to make them on my own.

Stunning! How long did this take?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

The scene took about 2 months to make

Very nice! Now that we have displacement (again) in Unreal would you skip the Blender plane subd/displace step & just do that directly in Unreal?

@gabetandy

4 ай бұрын

Maybe. IMO Blender's poly editing is faster than Unreal. At least for my machine.

Hello, are those microdetails on the ground (small pebbles which make up the majority of the surface) quixel assets or did you use a tessellation / POM method? I struggle to make realistic landscapes because I always end up finding them too flat and unnatural. Bottom half of 6:40 for reference. Thanks

@gabetandy

5 ай бұрын

I used a Quixel ground assembly - asset ID wgvecfos

Awesome Environment ! What were the render times using the path tracer on this scene?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I don't remember, sorry

Hi gabe, amazing work. I have a question tho, 4:09 here we made a auto landscape material, but we are having a imported real world GIS image from blender. Is it possible to have auto material in static mesh? I have a real world arhviz project coming up where I need real world heights but with a auto material on it. Thanks

he's back

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

yessir

Nice job, although I have a question. Is your gaea terrain 1k or higher? I want to create a terrain for blender but its just seems that mine is too low.

@gabetandy

2 ай бұрын

Hey thanks. My exported height map is 8K. The higher res the better

@hest4785

2 ай бұрын

K thanks.

How did you make the node connection to place the image in a plane? I've been looking for that for a long time. thank you very much for your video.

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Not sure what you mean?

@microbounce2009

8 ай бұрын

@@gabetandy How did you place that background image on that plane? I want to achieve the same thing.

@mopozuJIko

8 ай бұрын

@@microbounce2009 it's at 9:57 You simply create a material and place the photo as a texture, but don't forget to change some settings in material settings as shown in the video

First of all hello, your work is very realistic. I graduated from university and I will work with unreal engine soon. What kind of computer do I need to use to do this job as realistically as you do? If possible, could you please explain the features of the computer you are using?

How long did this take you to make? incredible work. Hope to get this good one day..

@gabetandy

2 ай бұрын

Quite a while! Thanks Stick with it! You WILL get better

please do more!!

Amazing video but can you tell me what addon was that on blender for trees

@gabetandy

5 ай бұрын

Its called The Grove 3D

What settings did you use to make far away shadows visible? In mine, far away shadows disappear when camera get furtheraway

@gabetandy

2 ай бұрын

All done using path tracing!

I think, next video shoud be with - PCG , volum clouds, virtual textures , nanite landscape .

@gabetandy

5 ай бұрын

Agree

Why for me everything mostly is below this grid in UE? If i move the landscape up - it goes above the grid but than all is covered in snow due to auto-material ..... if i move it below look great, but can't test it with the "play model". Is there a way to allign all this somewhere?

Tells me i have to have a API Key when getting the height map?

Hi very nice!!! is there any solution Sky light not working while using path tracer with hdri backdrop

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Make sure you are using the built in skylight inside the HDRI backdrop.

How do you export the terrain from blender to UE5? i wish u explained stuff like that even just a tiny bit

Only 1 question. What is your frame rate? Also looks great

at 3:50 you said the foreground is satellite data and background is gaea mountains. I understood that the background is the static mesh exported from the gaea. The satellite data is the landscape from the unreal or it is a static mesh? If it is a static mesh then have you textured the foreground? Because texturing a static mesh in the foreground is difficult. Can u elaborate on the 'foreground satellite data' please?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

Yes the foreground is a massive static mesh. Instead of using textures to add detail I used 3D meshes from Quixel placed on the ground to add detail. Cheers

@virajtemghare3267

8 ай бұрын

Ok now I got it! Thanks for all! @@gabetandy

🔥🔥🔥

I tried following along but the topographic data I got was super blocky and low quality. Can I only pick places with high levels of detail?

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

You can subdivided the mesh before applying the modifier to get more resolution.

It seems you use speed tree quite a bit, does speed tree come with textures when you buy it, or do you need to buy assets from speed tree to get more textures to play with? Same goes with Gaea is it simply modeling or is there a database of textures that come with it. Been debating getting these two programs, they look amazing but wondering if i need to build a texture library first.

@gabetandy

8 ай бұрын

I don't use SpeedTree all that much but when I did use it I used Quixel Megascans for the textures. There are preset trees that come with SpeedTree if I'm remembering correctly. Don't quote me on that though lol. With Gaea, there are procedural textures built into the program.

@mopozuJIko

8 ай бұрын

also if doing project inside Unreal, I think there is nothing in the megascans license that stops you from downloading their leaves atlases, creating trees in speedtree and using them for personal projects inside Unreal. For commercial use I'd say it's better to research their licensing more thoroughly. Also there are lot's of place where it's possible to download leaves and bark textures for free, or use photos of them and use programs that can generate rougness and normal maps from photos. Speaking about Gaea, you still have to create the landscape yourself using procedural tools inside the program. Color information can be generated in Gaea as well, but is rarely used for final shots and mostly as a reference point for setting up your final shader with tilable materials later.

Hi what is the correct method for linking all textures? After linking them there are several errors and surely I am wrong in connecting...THANK YOU

pls tell me how to subdivide plane to triangles in blender? it always subdivides in smaller squares

Hey hey - with UE 5.4 out now, I'm wondering if these same tips n tricks will work?