If you tried to build lighting in a big landscape in UE4 with a lot of foliage, you probably noticed that it’s almost impossible to do this if you don’t have a supercomputer or two (and even then you probably will get a lot of warnings, like lightmap UV overlapping for your foliage or lightmaps issues for […]
Author: Ruslan Nazirov
I am 24 years old developer.
I have solid experience in programming and used to be a java developer for 4 years.
Now I’m working on my own projects and games, based on Unreal Engine 4.
World Machine + UE4: Full Workflow
1. Create required landscape in World Machine. I’m using GeoGlyph macro library to speed up the whole process of landscape development. 2. Create required height maps for landscape layers. You can use default erosion outputs, like Flow, Wear, Deposition maps. Or you can use some external macroses, like ReFlow from GeoGlyph. Then you need to […]
Distant Landscape Meshes for UE4
Let’s assume that you’ve read my previous article and made a landscape for UE4. Sometimes it’s enough to start adding details, especially if you have a big landscape. But in most cases, you have a small playable landscape and it’s a good idea to add additional background landscapes to enhance visible borders of a level. […]
Layered materials in Unreal Engine 4
Some time ago I finished first vehicle for my project “Stranger Worlds”. Vehicle’s codename – Thor. During development, I solved on of the biggest problem for me – how to make materials for a complex asset with hundreds of parts and achieve a clean result. Before that, I used two different approaches in texturing – […]
Quick tip #3: How to increase tessellation quality
This tip might be useful for those people, who tries to achieve the best possible quality of their in-engine static renders. Big values of tesselation multiplier are not suitable for real-time games at this moment and I recommend to use parallax occlusion mapping instead. Default tessellation multiplier in UE4 locked to the value of 15, […]
Quick tip #2: Mood presets in UE4
Sometimes it would be useful to have different mood presets for game levels. In this tip, I will show you how to create mood preset with blueprints, so you can easily put it into your scene to set up the global mood for your scene.
Quick tip #1: Lightmass settings in UE4
If you want to improve your baking result for static lighting, you can use lightmass settings from this quick tip. It will increase the time of baking, but provide a much better result with fewer artifacts.
Welcome to Kelheor’s Lab
I made this website to share my thoughts and results of my experiments. Here you can find tutorials, tips & tricks, different articles about programming, modeling, game development and many other things. Hope you will enjoy and find useful things for yourself.
Substance Painter 2 + Quixel Suite 2
In this article, I want to share my thoughts, why using a combination of these two great tools will help you to achieve good results fast and easy. But first of all, let’s take a quick look at these two products.
Depth of Field effects in Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 has 3 main methods to performing depth of field effects: Gaussian, Bokeh and Cirlce DOF. Let’s take a quick look on them and try to use different settings in different scenes.