Unreal Engine 5 - Realistic Environment Design for Beginners (Udemy.com)

I was able to learn how to create landscapes through this course. I have had experience with creating them in the past, but this taught me some key skills such as how to smooth down landscapes, how to paint textures onto a landscape using a landscape material and how to create one, and how to implement realistic water with the help of a plugin. If I am stuck, I will always look back to this course, but it's been a pleasure going through it!

I think this is an excellent beginner course, short and concise, I would have liked to see some more water options maybe a river and waterfall(with sounds?), and also a day and night cycle with maybe how to configure a timer, I know that he made another lighting course and i will try it also and see if it's in there. other than that I think this course is a very good start for beginners like me.

This is a nice hands on course that lets you dive right into all the basics of map creation. If you want everything explained then this probably isnt the course for you but if you're a hands on learner you will most likely appreciate this 4 hour tutorial lesson. There are a few issues with the course UE5 version being older and some things not exactly lining up with the latest UE5.03 stuff and some minor glitches that the students are experiencing because of that. Also unfortunately the teacher is not responding to these issues in the Q&A. However, I still finished the course with everything mostly working fine and I feel ready to move forward and keep expanding my knowledge and skills to eventually get to work on my own maps.

It's a good course to get you Started, but in my opinion, it doesn't really get into the specifics of certain settings, which may be good because it won't scare you away, however you may find yourself doing some extra research for have things explained even further. I think this course is good if you've taken another Unreal Engine Course previous to this one, maybe not from this instructor, but from someone on Youtube, like Unreal Engine Sensei. What I did was that I took his free course, and then I took this one. That way, I can focus on the creation process of this course, while not really worrying how settings work, because Unreal Engine Sensei covered that. However, you can take this Course by itself and I think you'll be fine, but do plan to research certain settings on your own. What I do appreciate are the little tips he provides during the Course, such as creating the landscape material, like setting the Sampler Source to Shared:Warp, because UE won't recognize more than 5 textures unless it's Shared:Warp. This was really helpful, and they're other tips like that along this tutorial. All in all, I'll rate this course a 4.5 out of 5 stars. Thank you for taking the time to create this lesson for us. I hope you make more in the future.

Enjoyed this course a lot ! The unreal Editor is pretty overwhelming and my own attempts to just see how far I get led to a lot of stumbles: the checkbox inside the selection for the foliage you wish to use is invisible unless you hover over it, for example. Gavin cleared up a lot of mysteries and gave me a solid foundation , sorry : tropical island, from which to venture out into the Unreal Universe. His calm demeaner is pleasant throughout yet keeps up the pace !

I mean, it was allright. I've completed the island, even though there were a lot of unexplained hiccups along the way. For example, once the textures are blended with a blend node, it will not show up in the preview (it would simply be black). Also, at one point, I could not paint texture or sculpt for some reason at all... I could not figure out why, possibly because there were too many textures used at the same time. Then, out of nowhere, a good chunk of landscape disappeared (which I had to rebuild), but it fixed the problem and I could paint/sculpt again. Really weird. There were lots of terminology used that may not be familiar to a complete beginner, with no explanations. However, it will not affect the tutorial process that much. 80% of the whole course was watching him sculpt/paint the island, with almost no learning benefit. It was basically a Bob Ross style painting with lots of fillers - "this is your world, you can put the rock over here, or you can put it over there, or maybe you don't need it at all" type of a thing. But he did go over every element and function in the landscape/foliage modes, and he did guide and provide various tips. Ultimately, I'm happy with how my island turned out and it was good practice. I will probably consider the cinematic tutorial in the future.

The course was okay, I learned a lot of useful things but many many things (about materials, specific terms that were used without explanation, lighting...) were left unexplained that a total beginner will simply not understand (luckily I wasn't one). Even if there is a separate course about lighting, it's still necessary to explain some basic things so that a beginner will not just copy the work but actually understand what the instructor is doing. It was also a bit disappointing that half of the time was just the instructor placing assets, painting the island etc... instead of him explaining things. Again, it was an okay course but not entirely satisfying. I will definitely have to watch other courses in addition to that one.

This is a good overview of the landscape tools and methods in Unreal Engine. It's a good bang for buck - no time wasted and straight to the point. The course covers everything fairly briefly so doesn't go into detail about the nuances of the tools or material creation. The result is still very high quality, though. To juice up my own project, I opted for procedural foliage instead of painted foliage.

It's a good course to stimulate some ideas of how to use the various tools in UE5 to create beautiful, interesting environments for your games. It is taught by an experienced instructor illustrating the order of use, some of those intricate artistic touch ups, some different techniques and adjustments to settings which you can use to develop your own personal style. The instructor gives tidbits of information of how to do something, but you'll actually have to use your artistic talents, and then develop your personal touch, with the tools that he shows you.

This class is informal and doesn't spend a lot of time explaining things, though there is a lot of insight. The instructor knows what he is talking about and I learned some new tricks. Well worth the time and I will take more of his courses. My only real complaint with the material is I feel that there could have been more talk about optimization.