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Integrating a Head in UE4

Intermediate, Practical

Description

A 3-hour lecture covering all the essential knowledge to integrate a head in Unreal Engine following a typical video game pipeline. We cover:


  • Starting from the Digital Human head scene in Unreal Engine to quickly set up high-quality skin and eye shaders.
  • Breaking down and understanding a complex skin shader.
  • Talking about what a typical head integration looks like in the context of modern video games.
  • How to automatically convert a normal map to a roughness map in Unreal Engine.
  • How to render a high-quality portfolio piece.

This class is reserved for members.

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5. Materials and Costume Design

Discussion

8 comments

  1. Engin Hergul says:
    September 14, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    Hi Laura Where we find this unreal scene?

    1. Laura Gallagher says:
      September 14, 2022 at 5:01 pm

      Hey Engin, look for “Digital Human” on the Unreal marketplace. Cheers!

      1. Engin Hergul says:
        September 15, 2022 at 7:58 am

        thank you 🙂

  2. Athanasios Zagkliveris says:
    April 10, 2022 at 3:08 pm

    For the roughness, you could compare the initial node connections at 2:00:47 and the final at 2:22:38

    For the Normal, the same you could see the initial connection at 1:20:27 and the final at 2:26:48. At the end you disconnect the micro normal.

    1. Laura Gallagher says:
      April 10, 2022 at 5:38 pm

      Yeah I think those are mistakes in both cases. The green channel should’ve been passed for the roughness, not the whole RGB connector. It makes sense for the Blue value to remain 1.

      1. Athanasios Zagkliveris says:
        April 10, 2022 at 6:39 pm

        Thanks

  3. Athanasios Zagkliveris says:
    April 10, 2022 at 2:53 pm

    Thank you for this nice tutorial.
    I have observed 2 things, and I would like to know if they were done by accident or there was a reason.
    1st. For the Roughness, You multiply the RGB output instead of the G output (that the normal map was placed).
    2ns. For the Normal, You were trying to multiply the Blue channel by multiplying the Z value. I think that the Blue Value has to remain 1.

    1. Laura Gallagher says:
      April 10, 2022 at 2:58 pm

      Hey Athanasios. Do you have the timestamps for those? I recorded the class a while ago so I don’t remember that particular part. Cheers!

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