Unreal 4 Art Pipeline presentation for the Nashville game Developers Meetup 3/23/15

1. Unreal 4 Art Pipeline
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2. Pre-planning
● Drawn Block out
● Reference gathering
– Concept Art
– Real Life Reference
– Professional Reference
– Tutorials

3. Real World

4. Professional Ref

5. Tutorials

6. In engine Blockout
● Unreal 4 landscape tools
– Sculpting the landscape and blocking out major
areas.
– Exporting landscapes

7. Tiling textures for assets and
landscapes
● Creation
– Zbrush
– Photoshop
● Setting up a landscape material In Unreal 4

8. Choosing the right method for
creating the asset
● What would be the most efficient way of getting
this done?
● What is the style I’m going for?
● How important is the asset
– How close will the player get to it?
– Is it a focal point?
– Etc.
● Do I want to learn a new technique?
– Does the project allow me enough time to mess
around?

9. High to Low Res Modeling
● High Res modeling
– Model detail to be later baked down into the low
poly game resolution model
● Retopology
– The process of making the low poly model.
● Baking down
– Creating normal maps etc.

12. Physically Based Rendering
● Base Color
● Metallic
● Roughness
● http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn
https://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/dontnod-physically-based-rendering-chart-for-unreal-en

14. Texturing
● Tools I use
– Zbrush spotlight
– DDO,
– Knald, Xnormal, NDO
– Maya Bakes

15. Importing and Implementing
assets
● Importing
– Material creation and set up
– Material tricks in Unreal 4
● Foliage models and set up
– Unreal 4 Foliage painter

16. Helpful Links
● Unity to Unreal
– https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/
FromUnity/index.html?
utm_source=uelauncher&utm_medium=software&utm
_campaign=learntab
● Unreal 4 open world demo
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=clakekAHQx0&feature=youtu.be
● Blueprint
– https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?
60150-Learning-Templates-Blueprint-Power
● PBR
– https://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/dontnod-
physically-based-rendering-chart-for-unreal-engine-4/