In this game designcourse,you'll learn how to use Unreal Engine's Landscape and Foliage Editing tools so that YOUcan build open world environments like seen in "Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." Knowing how to use these tools is a critical skill for those aspiring to be Level Designers or Environment Artists!

Thiscourse contains over 110fun-to-followvideo lessons. You'll learn how to:

• Download, install, and setup a project in the Unreal Engine

• Create a new landscape

• Import existing (real world!) landscapes

• Stitch together multiple landscapes to create massive open worlds

• Sculpt mountains, valleys, plateaus, and caves

• Create a landscape material

• Paint landscape surfaces with mud, grass, rock, or snow textures

• Utilize Blueprint Brushes to sculpt and paint a landscape

• Spawn different visual and audio effects based on the surface type a character is traveling upon

• Populate a landscape with grass, flower, bush, or tree foliage

• Populate a landscape with road, fence, and river splines

• Use numerous Sculpting and Foliage tools within Unreal (including Procedural Foliage tools!)

• Create a day / night cycle

• Add fog & God rays

• Stream sections of your Open World in and out

• Visually profile and debug your landscape's performance

• And more!

With the knowledge gained in these video lessons, you will have the necessaryskills tostartbuilding your OWN open world environments!