Up until recently, we were not able to render high-resolution still images in Unreal Engine. Luckily for us, Epic Games have now added a high-resolution renderer called "Movie Render Queue".

It works by overriding the default anti-aliasing - which gives that low-quality "step" effect to your image - and increasing the temporal sample count (how many times the image will be rendered stacked on top of the other) to give a smooth final image.

Watch the video to find out how to render a huge still image without anti-aliasing issues in Unreal Engine:

Today, I would like to reply to a question asked by a subscriber: How can I create still Images in Unreal Engine? There are 3 ways to do it:

#1

You can take quick screengrabs using software like Microsoft Snipping Tools so you can share your work very rapidly for feedback.

#2

You can use the Unreal Engine high-resolution screenshot tool to create high-resolution renders in an instant (this will be covered in this video).

#3

You can also create even higher quality/resolution renders and this will be covered in my next blog video as this is a little more complex.

Let me know how you get on!

In real-time interactive content like video games, objects often seem to be floating.

As objects come in contact to the ground, they seem to “not touch” or float above the ground.

So why does this matter?  If you were trying to achieve realism this is an instant reality-breaker that we are hard-wired to spot in an instant. If you see the feet of a chair not attached to the ground, it's an immediate queue saying  “what you see is not real”. 

On the other hand, however if this small shadow is present, our eyes are fooled into believing that the object is actually here.

This effect is especially pronounced when in VR goggles. You truly believe the chair is actually in front of you, it’s quite staggering.

So here are three ways to deal with this issue.

• Static GI
  • Bake Lightmass
  • Bake GPU lightmass
  • AO texture Baking
• Dynamic GI 
  • Distance field AO
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Raytracing
• Hybrid 
  • Vertex Baked AO
  • 3DSmax
  • AO baker

I met Vince Gagliardi at an SOA event Venice in 2018 and he showed me his latest movie beautifully done in Vray and Corona. 26 minutes long. 

Click above to watch the interview

I remember thinking "Gosh that's a lot of rendering, I'm sure he could get this quality in Unreal " and I urged him to try it.

Well as he says in this interview one year and a bit later... here we are ! He emailed me last week with this movie and i couldn't resist trying this interview format out. Please share your thoughts and comments if you have any, I really enjoyed doing this so I feel very excited to help share it with the world.

Click above to watch his original movie Neither

Vince created this whole show in Unreal and opened the prestigious Lunchmeat Festival at the National Gallery of Prague in October 2019.

The film isn't actually released yet., but Vince is about to release the music in early 2020 and the film shortly after so this is definitely a huge...

In this Unreal engine tutorial, I explain how to create a very realistic chrome material.

The benefits of this method are twofold: 1- you can easily give a patina, a sort of ageing effect. 2 - you can go extremely detailed by using 8K textures.

Depending on the size of the texture in the scene, or if you used 16k images, the level of detail you are then working at is literally microscopic ! In the video below, I show you how doing this in real time gives you incredible amount of control over the fine tweaking.

In order to achieve this material just do the following :

1. Create a material
2. Set Metallic on 1
3. Add an 8k "imperfection" texture map as Roughness
   The texture should be uneven mid grey like a grunge map, but avoid high contrast with extreme blacks and whites.
4. Create a multiply node and a Scalar Node and multiply the texture to be able to tweak it in realtime
   
   ^{to zoom in the image, right click + open the image in new tab}
5. Optionally, you...

In this video I'll show you how to create a skydome in Unreal so you can :

• Load any High resolution HDRI as a viewport background
• Change the intensity 
• Rotate the background image