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Lesson 1 in Unreal Environments

Lesson Information

In this lesson, you'll learn the basics of Unreal and begin crafting your environment idea. You'll find references, build a library of assets, and assemble those assets together into one convenient staging area. By the end of this lesson, you'll have all the tools you need to start building your own environment.

Homework

Set the Mood

Using your idea from the Brief Builder Tool, create a mood board. Even the act of searching for reference can spark your creativity! If you don't have Photoshop, don't worry. There are plenty of free options for photo editing.

Take Control

Before doing any building, get comfortable with the Unreal Engine controls.

Bring in Assets

Find and import assets for your project. Don't forget to make sure the assets have everything you need before making a purchase.

Build the Zoo

Once you've imported all the assets you want to use, build an Asset Zoo scene. Make sure everything looks good from various camera and lighting angles.

Share Your Work

Upload an image of your Asset Zoo using the 'Upload Homework' button above, so your instructor and fellow students can see your progress!

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Joe Garth 2 years ago instructor

Hi Ramon,
You can find the Brushify projects in Lesson 2 and Lesson3.

Once you've opened the lesson 2 project go to:
LS_LandscapeExercise\Content\Maps\LandscapeExercise
and you should everything you need for the landscape exercises.

For Lesson 3 you get an even larger project to download. For that project go to:
LS_MoorlandCity\Content\Maps
This is a much larger project that contains tons of Brushify assets from Forest pack, Urban buildings and Cliffs pack.

After seeing some confusion surrounding Lesson 1 and getting the files, I think I will try to structure things differently.

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Hugo Bass 2 years ago

Inside the Unreal UI there is a content browser where the assets are stored for each individual project. Are they not shown within the project content under a 'Brushify' folder, and are you not able to retrieve it from there and import into your project?

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Ramon 2 years ago

Thank you, Marc, but I need a step by step here. This was sold as a step by step guide and yet it seems to be anything but. I have downloaded the zip file, unzipped it, and found folders with files I cannot do anything with. The one unreal file there is in there opens as a blank level

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Marc Sawyer 2 years ago

I think you have to go to lesson 2. He has I believe combined them into one project file you can download from the download files link in lesson 2.

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Jerry Van den Berg 2 years ago

Where's the content to create the Asset Zoo? (Homework)

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Saf Fron 2 years ago

I have the same issue as Karl Ryse. I can see some Brusihify content in the Lesson 2 file structure, but are these the ones Joe is referring to in the Zoo Setup lesson?

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Joe Garth 2 years ago instructor

Hey, yes they are L2 and L3. I will be restructuring this soon as a lot of people are getting lost. I want it to be as simple and straightforward as possible!

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Saf Fron 2 years ago

Ahhh - just expanded the details and saw he has packaged them with Lesson 2 and 3. Whoops!

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