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Jonathan Winbush (00:20): What else, what else? When boys here, it said I'm excited to bring you guys unreal. Engine five that had been used in the early access for a little bit now. So I've reached out to my friends at school of motion. So I could give you guys a guided tour to get you guys started. Now, this isn't going to be everything that you could do, but it's going to give you a solid foundation on where you can get started and let your imagination run wild. And this video I'll show you how to download unreal engine five, how to navigate the menu to open a new project, how to quickly create, use a mega skins, lumen, and other assets, and how to build a light. You're seeing using a new interface before we begin, make sure to download the project files in the link below so that you can follow along.
Jonathan Winbush (01:02): Okay. To get started. First, you want to go to unreal engine.com. You can see we have a brand new loading page chair showing why the demos from the UAE five demo that they revealed a couple of days ago. And it gets started in the upper right-hand corner. We want to click on this download button here. So I'm going to click on this and that's going to bring us to the licensing page. And now, since we're creators, we're able to use unreal engine 100% free. The only time you have to pay for it is if you make an interactive experience like a video game, and which, if you have a million dollars worth of revenue, then you have to pay them their 5% as you can see there and the royalties. But since we're going to be using it for motion, graphics and broadcast and whatever else we want to use it for like daily renders or something of that nature, we're going to be free to use unreal engine for free.
Jonathan Winbush (02:22): So once you have everything up and running and installed, this is the epic games launcher, and this is what you're going to see. Now, if you're already experienced with unreal engine, you'll notice we have a brand new tab up here. This is UE5 and that's exactly what we want to go to, to get unreal engine five. So I'm going to click on this and that brings us to the unreal engine five page and which it gives you download the early access and which I want to reiterate. This is a beta. And so some of the functionality might be a little bit weird and might be a little bit slower than what you're used to, but it is in beta. And it's going to be worked over for the next couple of months. So take that with a grain of salt. Now, if you want to check some of the stuff out that came and engine five, they have the sample project down here, which showcases all the new features like night-night and lumen, which is really cool. Make sure you set some time aside. It is a hundred gig download, but if you watch the YouTube trailer that they revealed, it's exactly that demo, but you could play and you can explore around in a road and you could kind of just dissect it and see exactly how they built it out.
Jonathan Winbush (03:23): Once you have the early access installed, you should have a tab up here in the upper right-hand corner. If I click on this down arrow, this actually shows me all the different versions of unreal engine that I have installed. You can have multiple versions installed, which is really cool. So if you start on a project saying like 4.2, five and 4.26 came out, but you didn't want to upgrade because it might mess up your project. You can totally keep that version in there. And so you want to go to the one that says [inaudible] early access, and you want to click on this and there we go. It's loading up unreal engine. It has this pretty cool splash screen here. And once it's done loading, we have the unreal engine project browser here, which is completely revamped with the UI and everything. It looks really clean here on the left-hand side, we have our recent projects.
Jonathan Winbush (04:07): And if you're familiar with unreal engine for the show, all look familiar to you. It's just re-skinned. And still we have games here. We have film, video and live production, which is, this is what we're going to be using. We have Archbishop engineering and construction, and then we have automotive and product design is. So if you notice, as I click on these, these have a whole bunch of different templates that will get you started to say that you wanted to make like a first person game. You click on this and automatically gives you everything. You need to get started with a first person shooter there. If you want to do like a top down experience, something like Diablo, you have that option. But I like to go to the film, video and live events, and I like starting with a blank slate. So I'm going to click on blank here and then down here under project location, make sure you save it to where you want your unreal engine project to save to.
Jonathan Winbush (04:56): And then over here on the right hand side, under project name, I'm just going, named this school of motion underscore [inaudible]. And then we're going to click on create. And here we are, this is what you guys have been waiting for. This is the brand new unreal engine five. As you can see, the interface is completely redone. It should look familiar if you've been using a real engine for, but the interface is a lot cleaner. It's a lot sleeker. Like if you weren't working at unreal engine four, this should look really familiar to you. On the right-hand side, we have the road outliners still. We have the details panel still, but if you notice on the left-hand side, we don't have to act as panel. And so for those that aren't familiar with unreal engine four, let me show you exactly what the old interface looked like, which is really cool.
Jonathan Winbush (05:40): Cause we could kind of go back and forth between the two. So if I come up to window and I come down here to load layout, it actually gives us the option to bring up the old unreal engine for classic layout. In which if I click here, this is exactly what unreal engine four looks like, but it still has a nice interface. And so this is what I was alluding to before we had this panel called the place actors, which kind of gives us an easy access point. So audit different things that we need here. So if we wanted to add stuff like player start, or if you want it to come over the lights, it has all of your lights sitting here. If you want it to come over to virtual production cameras, it was all easy to access here. Having a place actors here on the left-hand side just gave you easy access to all these different things that I use a lot.
Jonathan Winbush (06:22): But as you can see, it does take up a lot of real estate here on the left-hand side. And so for me, I like this old interface, but a lot of people do like the sleekness and having a bigger viewport here. So I'm going to go to window, come back down to load layout, and I'm going to come down to default editor layout, and that's going to bring us back to how they want us to really interact with unreal engine five. And if you need to add anything to your scene is right over here under main, under create. And this is where audit place actor stuff is. And so it kind of just gives you a pull down window instead of having it inside of a panel there. So, you know, whatever you're more comfortable with feel free to use it.
Jonathan Winbush (07:05): So the main thing in this demonstration that I want to show you is how we could quickly create what mega scans used on our rule. Engine five, Whitney at night, Illumina technology. And if you're not familiar with Whitney and I is basically, if we have a high polygon object, we don't have to use any normal maps or any displacement maps. We can take like a really high polygon object straight from zebra, SJ or mega scans with even like a million polygons on it, bring it directly into unreal engine and with their new technology, that thing just runs like a breeze. We don't have any type of delays. We don't have to decimate our models or anything. And with luminous is basically from my understanding, it's going to be a replacement for Ray tracing. So limited, it's going to be effecting your lights, your shadows, your reflections, everything that we were kind of amped to inside of unreal engine fourth, Ray tracing.
Jonathan Winbush (07:52): We're going to get faster results with limited technology and unreal engine five. And if you guys would like to take a deeper dive into it, I'm actually going to leave this link for you guys. So you can see the official documentation for unreal engine five, they're early access. I would suggest that everybody go through it. If they really want to understand how to knit Knight and limited technologies work. If I just scroll down through this screen here, you can see that it gives a pretty good explainer about everything that's going to be inside of unreal, engine five, you know, the interface changes and all the things that work and don't work as of right now, because remember this is a beta and so certain things aren't going to work. Like I know offhand, the [inaudible] tool is kind of iffy right now inside of unreal engine five is so I'm not going to display that, but I am going to display the stuff that works. 2ff7e9595c
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