Hey all,

Here is a new video covering some landscape displacement. This video uses a landscape material that's in my train series that I have been doing. You can check out the full series on my YouTube channel covering my station build. I wanted to show in this video how you can easily use some displacement to create a lot more depth and height information in your ground materials. This helps a ton with large flat materials where you don't really have many assets covering the ground. 

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share two new videos that I released recently on my YouTube. These both go over material displacement on nanite meshes. One of them just showing the basic way and then the other shows how you can set it up on a blend on a landscape to actually have real time displacement updates like you could previously with tessellation. Hope you find it helpful!

Hey everyone,

I have been working on an environment series for a bit that I will eventually post on here with more of a breakdown. However I recently took the time to show how you could setup the initial steps to a more advanced material instance. I will probably make a follow up to this one diving into some details even further but I thought it might be helpful if you are starting out with them!

Hope you enjoy!

Hello everyone,

Below you will find a couple of newer tutorials that I posted on YouTube. These tutorials cover a variety of techniques inside of Unreal Engine 5. The first video covers how to take an asset or prop in your scene and turn it into a destructible asset that can break apart with contact. The second one covers how to setup custom collision so you can move your character freely through the space without getting stuck. The last one goes over how to setup some simple portfolio quality video renders in your scene and how to capture them.

Hope you found these helpful and let me know down below if you have any questions or things you would like to see in a future video!

Hey everyone, here are a couple of my latest videos going over some basic techniques inside of Unreal Engine 5. These cover a variety of ways to improve texturing and blends as well as adding deformation and then being able to run around your environment! I hope you find these helpful and let me know down below if you have any questions or interests in something to cover in a future video!

Hey everyone,

These two new videos go over how to create a neon sign inside of Unreal Engine 5. I first create the geometry inside of Autodesk Maya and then bring it in and set up the emissive material that utilizes some of the benefits of the new lumen lighting. The second video goes over a quick tip on how to be a little bit more organized when working with your lighting in scene with a tool that helps speed up workflow and iteration with lighting. 

Hope you find these helpful and let me know down below if you have any questions or things you would like to see covered in a future video!

Hey everyone,

I've created three new tutorials on my YouTube going over some of the newer features in Unreal Engine 5. These cover things like baking from high to low poly in engine, how to bake ambient occlusion from a single mesh, and also decimating down a high poly mesh and using the UV editor to UV the asset! Hope you find them helpful and let me know if you have any questions or comments on the topics I covered!

Hi everyone,

Recently I decided to convert one of my older projects from UE4 to UE5. This project was shelved for a couple of years and being that I had forgotten a lot about what I was doing with it lighting wise, I decided to convert it and start the lighting from scratch. Additionally this project had used tessellation inside of UE4 and so I wanted to figure out the new way of tessellating inside of UE5 since the material features seem to have been removed. These two videos below go over my process of converting the project over to UE5 and setting up the basic lighting and additionally, fixing my tessellated ground material that I had setup previously and using the new displacement methods!

Hope you find these helpful!

Hey everyone, 

I mentioned it before but I am starting a series of short tutorials on YouTube going over quick tips and tricks inside of Unreal Engine 5. It uses my Arch Vis environment and I wanted to do this just to share some stuff that I have had trouble with in the past and I also just really enjoy making short form content like this. I plan to continue furthering this environment and along the way I'll be posting around one video per week just to stay consistent and structured with it!

https://www.youtube.com/c/PeytonVarney

Hope these help and feel free to share any ideas or videos you'd like to see in the future!