Unreal Engine 5 Environment Tutorial for Beginners - Creating a Snow Level

Learn to create a stunning snow environment in Unreal Engine 5 with this comprehensive 3-hour tutorial for beginners. Master essential tools and techniques including materials, modeling, and landscapes. Start by setting up your project and navigating the viewport, then progress to creating lights, adding characters, and sculpting landscapes. Dive into advanced topics like importing textures, creating landscape layers, and implementing height blends. Explore set dressing techniques, add decals and models from Sketchfab, and create slope functions for realistic snow distribution. Enhance your environment with man-made elements, vertical structures, and a dramatic dragon model. Fine-tune lighting, modify clouds and fog, and apply post-processing effects to achieve a polished, professional look. Gain valuable career tips and level design insights throughout this in-depth tutorial.

Intro
Creating our project
Viewport and basic navigation
Creating Lights
Adding a Character to our scene
Creating our Landscape
Sculpting Erosion
Importing Snow Textures
Creating our first Landscape Layer
Creating multiple Landscape Layers
Creating Height Blend
Adding Big Shapes Part 1
Adding Big Shapes Part 2
Creating the Slope Mask to add snow
Modyfing Megascans assets
Add Small Elements
Foliage Mode
Set Dressing techniques
Speed Level Design & Career Tips
Adding Decals
Adding Models from Sketchfab
Creating our Slope Function
Man Made Elements
Adding Vertical Elements
Importing and fixing the Dragon scan
Adding Skin Material
Adding Lights to the focal point
Modyfing the clouds
Changing the fog
Adding Post Process
Changing the Atmosphere
Outro