Creating a Blizzard Environment in Unreal Engine

By Sean Spitzer
In this Unreal Engine tutorial, we'll learn how to create weather effects and environment assets for a blizzard environment. Software required: Unreal 4.6, Maya 2016, Photoshop CS5.5, Mudbox 2016, 3D-Coat 3.7.
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Rating
(10)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jul 30, 2015
Duration
3h 30m
Table of contents
Introduction and Project Overview
Introduction and Project Overview 1m
Creating a Blizzard Environment in Unreal Engine
Creating Tileable Textures in Mudbox 9m Exporting Our Texture and Building Our Material 9m Vertex Painting on the Model 6m Building Snow Structures in Maya 9m Setting up Our Layer Shader 9m Finishing Material for Layered Material 10m Making Our Second Material Function 9m Finishing up Our Second Material Function 8m Creating a Material Function Blend Node 10m Finishing up Our Layered Snow Material 10m Starting Our Blizzard Emitter Material 9m Finishing Our Unlit Particle Emitter 10m Connecting Our Fading Snow Flake Material 10m Finishing Our Velocity Snow Emitter 9m Starting Our Particle Emitter 9m Finishing Our Snow Emitter 10m Adding Nodes to Snow Emitter 9m Creating a 3rd Particle System for Our Emitter 9m Finishing Our Emitter for the Blizzard Effect 6m Editing Our Blizzard Range 8m Creating Decals for a Snow Environment 9m Creating a Material for Our Vertex Displacement Painting 10m Creating Vertex Painting Using Height Map and Material 5m Editing Materials and Fog for Final Environment 7m
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Course info
Rating
(10)
Level
Advanced
Updated
Jul 30, 2015
Duration
3h 30m
Description

In this Unreal Engine tutorial, we'll learn how to create weather effects and environment assets for a blizzard environment. We'll create snow structures and textures in Mudbox and Maya. We'll then create weather effects and advanced materials using layered materials and vertex painting methods. By the end of this Unreal Engine training, you'll be able to emulate stressful and chaotic video game environments for your next project. Software required: Unreal 4.6, Maya 2016, Photoshop CS5.5, Mudbox 2016, 3D-Coat 3.7.

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Sean Spitzer
About the author

Sean has been in the games industry for 18 years working in both console and social gaming verticals. He has an extensive background in education teaching game art and design related topics at both the Academy of Art University and The Art Institute of California.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Introduction and Project Overview
Hi, everyone. My name is Sean Spitzer. I'm the creative director and outsourcing manager for Ghost Jack Entertainment and currently the production lead for Fist Full of Magic and Weird Junior High game and TV production. In this course, we're going to go over how to create a believable blizzard environment in Unreal 4. Some of the key takeaways from watching this course include learning how to create snow blizzard emitters in Unreal 4, create vertex paint for objects to create snow and other details. You will learn how to sculpt organic objects for ice and other organic structures. You will paint with heightmaps for icicles. You will create fog for blizzards. You will create cloth objects that blow in the wind. By the end of the training, you will have learned how to make a believable blizzard environment in Unreal 4. I'm excited to work with Digital-Tutors and share these techniques with you, so let's get started with the first lesson.

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