Building an Interactive Day Night Cycle Game in Unreal Engine
In this Unreal Engine tutorial, we'll build a day night cycle game and multiple re-usable props, which will connect and respond to the system. Software required: Unreal Engine 4, Maya 2015.
What you'll learn
In this Unreal Engine tutorial, we'll build a day night cycle game and multiple re-usable props, which will connect and respond to the system. In addition we'll dig in and customize the sky dome that comes with the Unreal. We'll modify and expand the cloud system, creating our own custom sky and stars. We'll turn on Unreal's new advanced, real-time lighting system; mesh distance fields; discuss DFAO and SSAO; and finally build a dynamic post-processing system. We'll then build a multi-stage logic system. By the end of this Unreal Engine training you'll have a solid understanding of how to build an interactive and expandable set of blueprint props, advanced lighting, and post-processing. Software required: Unreal Engine 4, Maya 2015.
Table of contents
- Creating a Quick Day Night Cycle 8m
- Making Our Wind Turbine Rotate 10m
- Creating a Reusable Turbine Prop 8m
- Adding Random Rotation 7m
- Setting up a Street Lamp Blueprint 9m
- Placing a Street Lamp in Our Environment 9m
- Building a Skeletal Mesh in Maya 8m
- Building an Instanced Material 9m
- Creating a Morphing Flower Blueprint 10m
- Discussing Day Night Cycle Workflows 11m
- Adding a Skylight 10m
- Using Volumetric Light and Fog 10m
- Integrating a Dynamic Fog System 4m
- Investigating Sky Material 10m
- Controlling the Clouds in Our Sky 6m
- Building the Post-process Volume 10m
- Connecting the Post-process Volume 5m
- Analyzing the Sun Component and Adding a Moon 10m
- Setting up Our Moon's Orbit 6m
- Creating Our Moon Door 10m
- Improving the Night Sky 9m
- Filming and Finishing Our Day Night Cycle 11m
About the author
Shaun Foster is an assistant professor of 3D Digital Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He received his Masters in Fine Arts at RIT in 2002. He worked at 4 Directions Productions as manager of Animation and was also Lead Effects Artist there. He worked on multiple award-winning national and regional TV programs, advertising, and the successful 3D animated short, Raccoon and Crawfish. Shaun developed two educational multimedia exhibits for museums prior to jo... more