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11 Secrets for Level Design & Game Environment Ideas, Layouts, Reference w/"Google Maps 3D" Tutorial YouTube video by WorldofLevelDesign

11 Secrets for Level Design & Game Environment Ideas, Layouts, Reference w/"Google Maps 3D" Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgGD...

One of best ways to get accurate reference of any ext environment to create is use Google Street View. Immerse yourself & live through it. Other best way is to visit the location. For this, I had the chance to actually visit & take reference then revisit through Street View.

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Simplicity & subtleness of painted bricks in #UE5.

Keep setup simple but always offer a lot of customization & variation through Base Color, Roughness, Normal Maps, Masks & Dirt Overlays controls.

Learn how to create UE5 Materials for environments here: www.worldofleveldesign.com/store/ue5-ma...

That's a good idea.

3 initial base brick textures in #UE5. Base starting point. Defaults.

Then fun will really begin w/Material Instances & many customized material controls set up & ready to go.

Albedo, Roughness, Normals, Dirt Overlay Variation & separate control for grout and brick

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Would be nice to have single button Reset to Default in #UE5 to quickly reset ALL Material Instance properties to default without having to hit the small arrow 1-by-1 per each changed setting per each Material Instance.

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Substance Sampler has saved me a lot of times, many times. LOVE this software. Simple & powerful. Haven’t even begun to use Sampler to full potential. Only been using to generate quick masks. This 1 will need some manual fixing. Cant wait until I start photo to material creation.

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Experimenting with initial tests of creating mesh edge decals to hide sharp environment corners on walls, columns etc.

Just corner piece of geometry with decal material assigned to it then placed at sharp corners to add detail.

Decal material just has normal map & opacity map.

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After setting up scene in #SubstancePainter, you may need to update the mesh: modeling, UVing or both

Make updates modeling/UV updates then re-export. Overwrite existing FBX

Then go to Edit > Reimport (Ctrl+Shift+R)

Painter will update mesh w/changes

Bake Mesh Maps if needed

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NEW TUTORIAL!

Ultimate Guide to Alpha Channels for Opacity/Transparency Textures - TGA vs PNG (w/ #UE5 Examples)

This one is important for creating opacity/transparency textures, PNG vs TGA formats and how to texture pack Opacity Masks

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Love game environment art and level design.

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Another NEW #UE5 asset on WoLD Patreon!

UE5 Master Material Template: 1 Texture Tiling Mat w/Mask for Environments

1 Texture w/Mask
Perfect for brick/grout where you have 2 parts of texture to control
Many controls for customization

WoLD Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/ue5-ma...

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Important but often forgotten/lost video talk on using the Ultimate Trim Texturing Technique.

Using trims and reducing ugly low poly edges.

Great video breakdown: gdcvault.com/play/1022323...

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Here is #UE5 Material setup for Albedo Base Color Controls.

▪️Color change
▪️Brighten or Darken
▪️Desaturate or Saturate

I love keeping things simple.

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New #UE5 asset on WoLD Patreon!

UE5 Master Material Template: 1 Texture Tiling Mat for Environments (Many Controls for Customization)

1 Texture
Controls for Albedo, Normal Map, Roughness
Tiling and offset
Dirt Masks
More customized controls

WoLD Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/ue5-ma...

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“Perhaps the best poolroom assets in FAB”

“Nice assets, easy to use in my project. And a very detailed tutorial provided, shows lot of variation for the asset”

#UE5 Modular Assets: Tiled Rooms & Pools Environment (Liminal Spaces)

Get it on FAB: www.fab.com/listings/5dd...

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Packing texture masks. Placing each black/white texture into individual channel in PS. Cuts from 3 textures down to 1. Then in game engine choose which channel you want to use. In #UE5 this can be done through Component Mask. You can do this for texture masks, roughness, metallic. #gameart #gamedev

Texture masks are essential for environments. I use them all the time to add variation, break up tiling, blend between textures, storytelling through wear/tear, grunge, dirt, leaks, imperfections.

Get 24 texture masks I released on WoLD Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/textur...

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Do not guess how something looks like. Not for modeling, not texturing, not lighting. Look at photo reference, look at Google Street view, look w/your own eyes. Create to match then deviate from there. Use real world as base then add your own artistic view, vision, style on top.

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NEW TEXTURING TUTORIAL:

How to Pack Multiple Black and White Textures into Single RGB Texture with Photoshop (w/ #UE5 Example).

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You can copy #UE5 Material setups as plain text by selecting all or portions of Mat setup then Ctrl+C (Copy), Ctrl+V (Paste) into Notepad

Then save for later to speed up Mat setups, give text to some1 else to use without .uasset file or even copy/paste in earlier version of UE5

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NEW TUTORIAL - Substance Painter: Create Perfect Tiling Dirt/Grunge/Leak Masks for Texture Blending for Game Art w/ #UE5 Example

In this post I'll show 3 options to create dirt, leak, grunge texture masks in Substance Painter

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You can easily and quickly export masks to file in Substance Painter by right-clicking on the Mask Icon and then choosing Export Mask to File.

Now you have a texture mask to use in #UE5 or other game engine or other software.

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TUTORIAL: Creating Procedural Texture Masks with Photoshop's Clouds Filter (w/#UE5 Examples).

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Never forget the oldest trick in the book for generating procedural, general texture mask in Photoshop. The famous Clouds and Difference Clouds filter. Quick, easy, still useful.

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Use this setup in #UE5 to modify contrast and control Black/White texture Masks.

Cheap contrast, Scalar Parameter and Saturate to clamp the values between 0-1.

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#UE5: Quick Tip Tutorials Part 4 (Tips #31-40).

Quick Tip Series created for beginners & advanced UE5 environment artists.

Tips to help improve, refine, fix & remind you of techniques, principles you may have not known or forgot about

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Export any texture out of #UE5 to use or modify.

▪️Find the texture you want to use in the Content Browser
▪️Right-Click on it and choose Asset Action > Export
▪️Choose name, file type and location
▪️Click Save

Done.

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How do you fix an Albedo brick mask?

One brick at a time!

Sometimes these things have to be done manually.

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Substrate is now default Mat system in UE5.7+

You can continue using default Main Root Node given when creating New Mat. It'll work w/most standard surfaces. At runtime its Substrate anyway

BUT to get Substrate layering features insert Slab node then connect output to Front Mat

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