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Brais Brenlla Ramos
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Brais Brenlla Ramos

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.
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Creating our first physically based material

PBR is, at its core, a principle that several graphic engines try to follow. Instead of being a strict set of rules by which every rendering program needs to abide, it is more of an idea – one that dictates that what we see on our screens is the result of a study on how light behaves when it interacts with certain surfaces.

As a direct consequence, the so-called PBR workflow varies from one rendering engine to the next, depending on how the creators of the software have decided to program the system. For us, that means that we are going to be looking at the implementation that Epic Games has chosen for the rendering pipeline in Unreal Engine 5.

However, we are going to do so in our already established recipe process – that is, by creating materials that follow the PBR workflow so that we can see the results. Let’s get to it!

Getting ready

We don’t need a lot to get started working on this recipe &...

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Brais Brenlla Ramos

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.
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