UE4 Advance lighting design

Thanks for considering my first individual lighting course.

This is a lighting design and creative thinking training for video game visual developers, you can follow this tutorial with the early access version of UE5, simply replace all of the GI-related parts with Lumen. 

It including two major formats of learning

The sweet trailer below >>>

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>>>>>Please MAKE SURE  to watch the [BEFORE YOUR BUY] video below <<<<< 

this will help you understand if the course suits what you need. 

Thanks!

Who is this course for

• You are a junior/ intermediate level lighting/environment artist, who is already familiar with general lighting setup with Unreal Engine 4 but looking for creative solutions on lighting. 

• You are a CG generalist/ freelancer understanding how to use Unreal Engine but want to boost your project further on lighting/ cinematics.

• You are a final year CG/ Game art student, understand how to use lighting-related tools in Unreal Engine 4, and are looking for more advanced solutions for your final project/ portfolio to make your portfolio stand out.  

What is included

• Full project workflow recorded while I am actually working on this project

• A full reference gathering and decision-making process

• How to execute your own/ following art direction

• Tutorial recording using NVIDIA RVGI V2 customized version, the guide is provided on how to setup RVGI following NVIDIA guidelines

What I need to follow the course 

• You can follow this tutorial with vanilla version UE4.

• You can use the early access UE5 to following this course, simply replace all of the GI function with Lumen in UE5.

• Unreal Engine 4.26 vanilla  Version, or NVIDIA customized version (build guidance and notes provided in the tutorial)

• NVIDIA ray tracing graphic card or equivalent

Assets I need to follow the course

• You are recommended to get free Character to follow this course from Epic marketplace.

• The environment assets are NOT included in this course, as this is an advanced lighting design/ setup tutorial, you are expected to follow the method and concept from this tutorial and apply it to your own project.  

• Search Elder library and Carpets if you want to follow the exact asset I used for this tutorial

Course Content detail

---Episode Voice (EP1/2/3/4/5) are talking lectures)

---Part 1/2/3/4 action are recording of the work in progress

>>>You are recommended to follow the order as the list below.<<< 

Lecture EP 1 

• Introduction  

• Enable useful UE4 plug-in

• Working on the mood-board

• NVIDIA UE4 customized version setup (Caustics and RVGI V2) 

• Setup guide if you decide to follow this tutorial with vanilla version UE4 

Lecture EP 2 

• How to follow the Action video

• Analyze the space 

• Environment lighting design and decision explained  

• Relationship between the artificial light source and volumetric fog

• Analyze and predict the compositing 

Action recording Part 1  

• Skylight setup

• ShadowFlag setup

• Skylight bake result and GPU lightmass

• Exposure calibration

• basic fog set up and volumetric fog

• Postprocess check

• Light shaft Occlusion 

• Local HDR test

• (Nvidia Unreal version only)- RVGI test

• Flickerlight- light function 

• brightness calibration- HDR lux and Candela result 

Part 2. Character and Cinematic lighting

Lecture EP 3

• Character selection and set build-up 

• Cinematic lighting concept

Action recording Part 2 

• Setup sublevel

• Adding character

• Adding character animation

Action recording Part 3

• Character lighting- silhouette/ hairlight/ pose check

Action recording Part 4

• Interior lighting- detail polish/ expanding

• Artistic choice when lighting interior  

Lecture EP 4 

• Recap of environment lighting, process, and decision

           How to use the guide PDF and the troubleshooting PDF guide

Lecture EP 5

• Recap of character and cinematic lighting, process, and decision  

• Relative cinematography and camera movement design explained.

• Special thanks