Master Cinematic Fog & Volumetric God Rays in UE5
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
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Use Exponential Height Fog in Unreal 5 to create Volumetric Fog and Atmospherics in this masterclass. I wanted to create a resource sharing everything I've learned about Volume Fog + Atmosphere and compile it into one video, so please Like or Share this video if you learned something new!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Why you need to use Volumetric Fog
1:31 - How to enable Volumetric Fog
3:41 - Add light blockers to shape your god rays
4:13 - How to Create Gobo Materials
5:40 - Spotlights and Volumetric Fog
6:05 - How to Increase Render Quality
7:18 - stat gpu profiling
8:17 - 4 Settings to Art Direct your Fog
9:22 - Fog Materials
11:24 - Improve your interior lighting
13:35 - Render Volumetric Fog AOVs
15:35 - Advanced Compositing Techniques in Nuke
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Exceptional to find someone sharing this thank you man
Really appreciate UE tutorials from someone with a VFX background, it makes so much more sense and emphasizes on quality and control vs gameplay. Please make more!
Absolutely underrated channel! Really admire you doing these alongside working day job in the industry. Huge respect and keep them coming!
You are a godsend man🙏🏼 Always good to teach yourself how to do everything but helping like this is everything💪🏼
Just came across this video and your work and explanations are amazing! So happy to have stumbled across you! Please keep up sharing! Going to watch all your videos soon enough!
This tutorials is gonna change my life lol. I've been hassling with art directing fog for year, thanks a lot
that Gobo trick is awesome.. thanks!
Super useful! This channel is underrated
Great tutorial and thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Yes please. More rendering tips especially in regards to console variables and AOVs. Also suggest adding 2 additional Settings
1 Color Output and make sure Disable Tone Curve is enabled if you are rendering in Nuke so all your outputs are Linear.
2 Game Overrides to ensure all settings are at maximum quality
This channel is very soon goign to be the most well-known channel. amazing content
It was a eye opening video to know how much further we can push UE when it comes to film making 😊 and definitely we like if you can talk about the movie render queue settings in detail for the future videos 👍🏻
Thanks dude.This is really helpful❤
Great tutorial. Very useful indeed!!!
Cool vid Josh, I use UEs AOVs and it’s great to see the perspective of someone else using them in production on YT (pretty rare), thanks for sharing!
thanks very much bro! good luck with the channel! subscribed!👌
WOW，great one！Appreciate it！
Great Tutorial. Love God Rays!
Great tips, thanks. Looks awesome!
Bro! This is amazing! Thanks
thank you very much, my friend, you helped me a lot, I'm waiting for new lessons.
Great work, I'd love to see a MRQ breakdown too.
GREAT TUTORIAL MAN
Thank you so much for this!!!
You're easily one of the most concise yet comprehensive educators on youtube. Fantastic work man, thank you so much for sharing!
Great stuff josh
great video!
I'm super interested on your MRQ settings btw.
Thanks for sharing!
Great info! Thanks!
Great tutorial thank you
Please provide more of such content u are awsome🎉
Amazing tutorial
great tips, and yes - i need more :D
Well done, ty ty
Yes please, MRQ rendering config tutorial for NUKE would be AMAZING!
Nice tutorial!
straight fire g woo woo
Thanks for all the great knowledge. Please make a video about getting out the camera as fbx. Just cant make it work propper with fusion?
Interesting! Do make a tutorial on AOVS !
absolute baller
Thank you for the tutorial. How does the light shafts settings (occlusion and bloom) in the Directional light affect the godrays, and do you use them?
In new to unreal as of 2 days ago watched a whole 5 hour tutorial and I get all of what was shown but obviously remember it all so it's nice to save the video to a playlist so I can reference. Came across ur stuff and Love it ovs. But I wanted to suggest a few things for future consideration. A full how to export using passes for dummies tutorial so we can render passes properly and even use in after effects which lost of c4 users use. I know this covers some of that but even those menus you were going to are forgin to a beginner. I think you will benifit from this because of all the re-watches you will get from us new guys. I haven't check yet but if you had a full workflow video with camera animation and things that would be sick. Where I got stumped in unreal 5 for this tutorial is loading the camera lens and fog material. I wouldn't let me load either. Ovs cuz Im not familiar but for furture users we would love to get setup with a tutorial on how to set these things up to migrate with future projects. Thanks for this tut love u bro!
nice stuff
Would be awesome to hear more about aov's
Another fire ass tutorial for you would have to be using Nuke as a beginner but only for compositing from unreal. Cuz I know after effects can't do some of the motion tracking nice like your showing.
Incredibile
Great video mate… Def make aov video pretty please 🤙
Very interesting video, i've learned cool new tricks! Only thing bothering me is the lag in the video, maybe use a capture card on a second computer laptop to capture and record the screen? :)
Josh welcome!
Love the use of passes in unreal as it’s a difficult thing to do compared to other render engines
Have you found a way in the render queue to automate the turning off of lights to get just the volume light?
Ideally like other software, if your rendering out 20 shots you kinda just wanna add them to the que and tick on a fog pass, but I know unreal is a long way from auxiliary passes let alone the core ones.
Best case scenario in unreal duplicate those render jobs and add one cvar or some sorta tag code? that auto makes it isolate and render?
I’ve found the stencil tools to be inconsistent, not work with some materials, and basically double the gps ram usage which on some shots just crashes everything.
hey you have a bulbasour in background , cool.
Please share ALL of your film making journey 😊
Am waiting for your nuke sweeting series what template you use....or how you composite in nuke....something like live action r more detail nuke comping series...thanks in advance
Is there an other way then Nuke to assamble the tree passes from the Mr. FCreeze scene?
Wow
there's a step missin at 4:53, how u get that "0" window please
Fantastic Tuts! The Gobo Texture is making the lumen scene dark, so I am not getting the indirect lighting. Is there any fix for that?
You could try making the plane one sided so it only blocks the light from one direction or use a gobo texture with less breakup
@@JoshToonen The Gobo Texture is letting light go, Its just the Lumen Light which is not getting through. I have tried your suggestions. Unfortunately the Lumen Light is not fixed. I have even tried to increase Lumen Scene Details to 3. Still no effects
Amazing dude
Hello, where do I need to put the path after downloading the two materials of Mist? Looking forward to your answer, thank you very much!
Hey! You'll need to drag-and-drop the .uasset file into your Project File through your File Browser, not by importing it inside of Unreal Engine. Just copy it directly into the project folder next to the other .uassets
can someone tell me how can i create those hanging cables or whatever they are in UE
Can I ask you if its works independently of Ultra Dynamic Skies? Can I use it on that clouds that UDS generates or I'm only capable to use it with standard sky preset? Suposing I want a godrays from a cloud setup inside Ultradynamic.
If you look at the components inside of Ultra Dynamic Sky you'll see they have their own Exponential Height Fog actor inside of it. Unreal will start to freak out if you have more than one in your scene, so it'd be best to modify UDS's!
@@JoshToonen can't thank you enough Josh for the feed. Awesome content!
Hello! i am using the material but is not working like yours, its just a fog with the form of a cube and its not only working on the light giving the god ray effect, its just there everywer, does anyone know hot to get the effect he is getting?
Great video here. So with the fog quality command from the console, to render it like that will the MRQ use that editor setting or would you need to add as a console variable in the MRQ preset? Thanks.
MRQ will default to whatever your Level defaulted to on start up which is usually defined by the Scalability settings, so usually you’ll want to override it in your MRQ config everytime
How Can I add the downloaded material to my UE project?
fairly basic question. My volumetric light just defuses inside the scene I have got, I cant get god rays coming through. Not sure the scale of my model is right. How do I check I have imported witht he right scale?
In orthographic view, If you middle mouse click you can measure the distance (in cm) or anything in your scene. Always make sure you have enough light, dense fog, and boost volume contribution in your light as a first resort
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0:09 May you tell the name of this small portable fog machine?))
Hey Josh, My issue right now is twofold:
1. My God rays disappear when I look away from the light source
2. Objects still cast shadows when obstructed by larger objects.
How do I fix these?
Thank you!
1) This *shouldn't* happen, but if it's noticeable maybe try bumping up the Volumetric Scattering intensity of your lights to help with this
2) You need your light to "cast volumetric shadows" to receive shadows, so if you want shadows check this on in the Details of your light, otherwise leave it off! You can force any object to stop casting shadows too in their details panel. hope that helps :D
What are your PC Specs?
Is it possible to use AE instead of NukeX?
Yeah, you would do the same thing with the Subtract Blending mode in After Effects or photoshop
Im having an issue. When i use the fog material my fog height seems to control my sphere. And its to an extremly aggresive levels. To the point where my camera cant even see anything but fog. Any suggestions on how to soften things up?
Set up fog density to something reeeally low like .001
@JoshToonen yeah I already did that and its still overkill sadly
Same problem for me sadly :(
that "Cast Volumetric Shadow" if turned off, the way fog behave, mine one is still same even it is turned on, what could have I done wrong?
Hey there,
There are a bunch of things volumetric s aren’t compatible with unfortunatly.
Common one is:
If you have raytrace shadows on in your project, or enabled in your light that you want to cast volumetrics.
You can disabled it under the shadow settings of your light, and if you still really need those nice raytrace shadows, duplicate the light, have one with raytrace and the other without, and the tiniest amount of light intensity but volume light scatter intensity at a really high number ( best of both worlds)
Also in your height expo fog, you need to turn on volumetric fog
Hope this helps
Does this work with Path Traced Renders?
Yes, it works exactly the same but there's no reason to render volumetrics in pathtracer. If you want your environment to be pathtraced, I'd still render the volumetrics in their own pass and composite them together, otherwise you'll probably get noisy renders.
I downloaded the fog material but it doesn't work in UE5.1 and I have setup all my volumetric, exponential height fog properly.
Weird, it was created in 5.1! Make sure you’re shining a light that has volumetrics boosted. If it lights up the rest of your fog, it should light up the material!
Mine didn't show until I added a directional light. But it didn't look right, it was VERY thick. Looked like a ton of tiny clouds bunched together.
@@Benmac @TUSH4R51 It sounds like you might have ray traced shadows enabled? By default, volumetric fog does not work properly with ray traced shadows. Try turning off ray traced shadows in the project settings under "Rendering" (if they're on) and see if that fixes the issue. However! The new 5.3 update adds functionality for volumetric fog with ray traced shadows. You need to enable it with the following console variable: r.VolumetricFog.InjectRaytracedLights 1
Same, I used your fog material in UE 5.2 and it is super bright and thick fog. Do you have any ideas why this would happen? Thanks!! @@JoshToonen
Is this 5.2
paid for the material, downloaded the material, dragged it into unreal 5.3, it says failed to import. :/
In your Windows File Browser, Transfer the file into the Content folder of your project, don’t try to import it inside Unreal
Is it broken in 5.2 ? the exponential fog doesn't seem to react to the direct light
I'm not the only one? I've followed along step for step and nothing is happening lol.
same
fixed it. shadow quality must be at least High.
@@ElectricLoft :o where is that option ?
engine scalability setting @@hydeman75
Can any one help me with this please? I've recorded an artist against a green screen for a music video, which I then keyed out in After Effects and imported into Unreal Engine. In Unreal Engine, I added a camera and sequence to incorporate motion into the scene. However, I find that my compositing skills in After Effects are better than if I tired to composite in unreal engine, and I'd like to export only the green screen footage with the camera movements nd the same fore the scene without the green screen for further compositing work in After Effects. What is the most efficient method to achieve this? I've also created a short video to illustrate my request. Thank you for your assistance." ua-cam.com/video/Qgzq8B4hw5I/v-deo.html
jesus, pls slow down the flashing and cutting.
I love pinlights