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Unreal Engine 5 Shaders and Effects Cookbook - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633081
Pages 402 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Brais Brenlla Ramos Brais Brenlla Ramos
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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface Chapter 1: Understanding Physically Based Rendering Chapter 2: Customizing Opaque Materials and Using Textures Chapter 3: Making Translucent Objects Chapter 4: Playing with Nanite, Lumen, and Other UE5 Goodies Chapter 5: Working with Advanced Material Techniques Chapter 6: Optimizing Materials for Mobile Platforms Chapter 7: Exploring Some More Useful Nodes Chapter 8: Going Beyond Traditional Materials Chapter 9: Adding Post-Processing Effects Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you’ll need to get a hold of Unreal Engine 5, the main star of this book!

This can be done by following these simple steps:

  1. Download the Epic Games Launcher from the engine’s website, https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download, and follow the installation procedure indicated there.
  2. Once installed, get the latest version of the engine. You can do so by navigating to the Unreal Engine section of the launcher, and then to the Library tab. There, you’ll be able to see a + icon, which lets us download whichever version of Unreal we want.
  3. Launch the newly downloaded version of Unreal by clicking on the homonymous button:
Figure 1.2 – Location of the buttons you’ll need to click to complete the previous set of actions

Figure 1.2 – Location of the buttons you’ll need to click to complete the previous set of actions

Apart from that, we have provided all the assets that you’ll see me use throughout the different recipes in this book. You can download...

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Profile icon Brais Brenlla Ramos
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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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