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Unreal Engine 5 Shaders and Effects Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to help you create materials and utilize advanced shading techniques 2nd Edition
Author(s): Brais Brenlla Ramos (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 31 May 2023
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 402 pages
- ISBN-10: 1837633088
- ISBN-13: 9781837633081
Book Description
Advance your game development skills and master the art of crafting intricate and visually stunning materials using Unreal Engine 5's powerful Material Editor
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
- Create spectacular visual effects for use in both games and virtual productions
- Design efficient shaders for any real-time platform without sacrificing realism
- Leverage Unreal Engine’s rendering pipeline and the innards of the material graph
Book Description
Unreal Engine is here to stay! Since the launch of the first edition of this book, based on the Unreal Engine 5 technology, real-time rendering has only grown in popularity. The demand for expertise in this area has grown exponentially across various fields over the last few years, and Unreal Engine 5 builds upon that foundation and continues to push the boundaries of what is achievable in an interactive format.
Against this backdrop, the second edition of this book takes a leap forward and explores the new opportunities offered by the latest version of the engine, including Lumen, ray tracing, and Nanite. The book also revisits previously covered techniques and updates them to current standards, shining new light on topics such as the PBR workflow and the different lighting solutions that were present in the first edition. Throughout the chapters, you’ll be able to focus on two key principles that you need to consider when dealing with real-time graphics: optimization and efficiency.
By the end of this book, you’ll have explored the many rendering possibilities that Unreal Engine 5 has to offer to become the master of your own creations!
What you will learn
- Leverage the capabilities of Lumen and Nanite to create breathtaking experiences
- Attain proficiency in the rendering pipeline of Unreal Engine to develop real-time graphics
- Utilize the physically based rendering pipeline to achieve photorealistic rendering across multiple scenes
- Explore the Material Editor to build complex materials and textures and achieve a high level of detail
- Optimize your materials to run seamlessly on multiple platforms
- Understand the various nodes and functions required to create impressive visual effects
Who this book is for
This comprehensive guide is designed for anyone who is passionate about rendering, real-time graphics, and creating visually stunning experiences with Unreal Engine. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional, this book offers a gentle learning curve that takes you from the fundamentals of the rendering pipeline to the most advanced techniques in the field. With a wealth of information and expert guidance, you'll quickly become proficient in the art of material creation, regardless of your background knowledge.
Table of Contents
- Understanding Physically Based Rendering
- Customizing Opaque Materials and Using Textures
- Making Translucent Objects
- Playing with Nanite, Lumen, and Other UE5 Goodies
- Working with Advanced Material Techniques
- Optimizing Materials for Mobile Platforms
- Exploring Some More Useful Nodes
- Going Beyond Traditional Materials
- Adding Post-Processing Effects
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Brais Brenlla is a great example of one of these new creators – working for AccuCities, a company specializing in capturing the built environment. Brais is someone who has leveraged the power of Unreal Engine to construct one of the best examples of applying the power of real-time technology to solve the problem of urban planning.
With this experience under his belt, you’ll find that this book contains a wealth of knowledge to help the reader tackle many of the materials and effects required in a real-world environment. Starting from the basics, you’ll soon start to work with some of the techniques that are used daily in any real-time production, followed by more advanced concepts that tackle some of the more interesting renderings features that the engine has to offer – all whilst following an accessible learning curve.
You're in good hands with Brais at your side."
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Kenneth Pimentel, Architecture Industry Manager at Epic Games
About the Author
Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.
