UNREAL

Exploratory Practices

Week 12

Lighting Aesthetics

Undersanding the mood of the scene with the help of lights

Light Purposes and functions

mood and environment
indoor and outddor environment
controlled shadows

Nature of Shadows

2 Types of Shadows

Attached Shadows

dependent on object

Cast Shadow

Independent of object
Creates drama and mood

Fall off – Slow and fast

High key lighting and low key lighting

Above eye level key lighting and below eye level key lighting

Outer orientation Function

spatial orientation
Tactile orientation
Time orientation

Lighting in cinematography

WEEK 10

Lecture: Rendering with Movie Render Queue (continued)

WEEK 9

Introduction to Sequencer and Movie Render Queue (MRQ)

MRQ- Movie render queue

Movie Render Queue is a successor to the Sequencer Render Movie feature, and is built for higher quality, easier integration into production pipelines, and user extensibility.

Plugins needed

Movie Render Queue
Movie render queue render passes

Plugins needed for rendering in video formats

Important Concepts:

Aliasing In CGI
Deferred rendering
colour space

WEEK 8

Cameras and Post Process Volume (PPV)

WEEK 7

Lighting and Global Illumination Systems in UE5

WEEK 6

Landscape Material, Introduction to Water and Foliage Systems

using different tools to create landscape

WEEK 5

Materials part 2 and Intro to Landscape

ORD – occlusion, roughness, displacement

WEEK 4

Building assets from Quixel Bridge

importing assets and using quixel bridge content

WEEK 3

Asset Gathering and Intro to Modeling Tools

Blueprints – Unreal Engine approach to Visual scripting

Shortcut Keys

G – hide objects temporarily
Ctrl + Space bar – Content browser
W – move
E – rotation
R – Scale
Ctrl + G – group Objects
Shift + G – ungroup

Snapping Tools

To reduce lag and increase performance of unreal
Go to settings - Engine settings - set post process to medium and then rechange it to epic once done working

GPU visualizer

Type command profileGPU

The colored bar represent how much processing time each thing needs to go to the gpu each of the individual

Settings for better performance of Unreal
https://youtu.be/esrnQBq75qg?si=I09mnhuJ3AzvdDCF

WEEK 2

Epic Games marketplace, launcher and introduction to Quixel Bridge

Quixel Bridge plugin for Unreal Engine gives you full featured access to the Megascans library within the Level Editor. You can browse collections, search for specific assets, and add assets to your Unreal Engine projects.

Launching Bridge in Unreal Engine

Click the Content dropdown in the toolbar and select Quixel Bridge.
From the top menu, select Window > Quixel Bridge.
From the Content Drawer, right-click and select Add Quixel Content.

If you can’t find Quixel Bridge as directed above, select Edit > Plugins. Type Bridge in the search bar, and click the checkbox to enable the plugin.

You may be prompted to restart Unreal Engine for the changes to take effect.

WEEK 10

Realism

How Red and blue lghts decide the temperature

using color temperature with the arnold lights

for shadow uh use arnold shadow matte material

SKY DOME LIGHT

IN ORDER TO RENDER CREATE CAMERA FROM FRONT VIEW

AOV’s in render settings are importants \ specular to add as the object is metallic\

add custom ambient occlusion
for variation in shadows

WEEK 9

Maya Animation

Principles of Animation

Timing and spacing
Squash and stretch
Anticipation
Ease in And ease out
Follow through and overlapping
Arcs
Exaggeration
Solid drawing
Appeal
Straight ahead action
Secondary action
Staging

Auto keyframe toggle
Animation preferences

WEEK 8

Maya rigging & IK

IK – Inverse Kinematics

FK – Forward kinematics

changing pivot
Parenting – select child and then parent and press P
Another way to parent – select parent – then child – Animation – constraint – parent

Creating IK handles

Human IK

Skin Binding

Using quick rig

Creating Bones and then IK handles
adding controllers for the overall movement with proper alignment

WEEK 7

Texturing with Substance Painter

WEEK 6

Texturing UV

WEEK 5

Organic modelling pt2

WEEK 4

Organic Modelling

project and bring a mood board with references

For my term project, I’m working on creating a special virtual world where people can have presentations and work in unique spaces. Imagine it like a magical metaverse.

In this virtual place, I’ll be designing different types of workstations, kind of special desks for people to use. We’ll also make beautiful displays for products, just like in a shop or museum.

Also there will be a lovely outdoor area, like a park, and even a galaxy to explore! It’s going to be a fantastic adventure in the world of virtual spaces.

Sample models for exterior of the building

WEEK 3

3D modelling in Maya

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Exploratory Practices

Week 12

MAYA