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Videos about the course, communication and feedback.

• Introduce yourself

• Intro to internal Chat (Especially get a hold of me)

Essential Beginner Theory of Art and Lighting

• 1. What is light?

• 2. What is refraction?

• 3. What is Reflection?

• 4. What is Indirect Light?

• 5. What is soft light?

• 6. What is hard light?

• 7. What is shadow?

• 8. What is Inverse Square Law?

• 9. What is three point lighting?

• 10. What is the Color Origin?

• 11. What is Color Temperature?

• 12. What is Subtractive and Additive Color?

• 13. What is RGB?

• 14. What is HSV?

• 15. What is Color and Tone?

• 16. History about Red Color

• 17. History of Orange Color

• 18. History of Yellow Color

• 19. History of Color Green

• 20. History of Blue Color

• 21. History of Violet Color

• 22. What are Color Schemes?

• 23. What are light values?

• 24. What type of contrast exist?

• Exercise 1

Preparing project settings Part 1 - UE5.4.4 *Updated for 2025*

• Video Quality Note

• Downloading Epic Games Launcher and Unreal Engine 5.4.4

• Downloading Polar Facility Project Fab/Library/Download here - UE 5.4.4

• [DOWNLOAD] Polar Facility Project File - UE 5.4.4 (If you don't have it in your library or fab)

• Opening Map/Quick Navigation Intro & Free UE5 course - UE 5.4.4

• FREE Intro to UE5.4.4 course (In case you need to learn it first)

• Setting up Project Settings - UE5.4.4

• Light Maps & Nanite - UE5.4.4

• Lightmap Color - UE5.4.4

• SkySpheres - UE5.4.4

• Postprocess - UE5.4.4

• Reflection Captures - UE5.4.4

• Importance Volume - UE5.4.4

• Getting lightmaps - UE5.4.4

• Lightmap Overrides - Part 1 - UE5.4.4

• Lightmap Overrides - Part 2 - UE5.4.4

Fixing Scene Materials and Asset to improve lighting - UE 5.4.4 - Part 2

• 35 - Part 1 - Exporting to DCC - UE5

• Part 2 - DCC UV Updates - UE5.4.4

• Part 3 - DCC UV Updates B - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 1 - Breakdown - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 2 - Texture Export A - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 3 - Texture Export B - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 4 - Albedo Edit - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 5 - Normal Edit Shader Change - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 6 - Roughness Export - UE5.4.4

• PBR - Part 7 - Roughness Correction - UE5.4.4

Polar Facility (Day Time Lighting)

• Exercise 2

• Part 5 - Basic Intro on Unreal Lighting Interface (If you are new to Unreal)

• Part 7 - Understanding Material Views for Troubleshooting

• Part 8 - Figuring out the Scene Material Setup

• Part 9 - Creating fresh material and emissive

• Part 10 - Exporting Texture to Correct

• Part 11 - Editing Correct Roughness/Metal in Photoshop

• Part 12 - Editing Scratch Details in Photoshop

• Part 12b -Turning of sRGB for metallic specular materials

• Part 13 - Adding new textures into material

• Part 14 - Adding Grunge Texture from Quixel Bridge

• Part 15 - Fix the rest of the materials

• Part 16 - Assigning Material to other meshes

• Part 17 - Tweaking the Arc Mesh Material

• Part 18 - Notice Poor Texture Details

• Part 19 - Removing Unwanted Light Fixtures

• Part 20 - Reducing Lighting Chaos

• Part 21 - Cleaning out unwanted VFX

• Part 22 - Adding Reflection Capture

• Part 23 - Reorganizing and More Cleanup

• Part 24 - Setting up Daylight and Basic Exposure

• Part 25 - Understanding Exposure and Lux

• Part 26 - Finalizing Exposure using Curves and Improving Reflection

• Part 27 - Volumetric Lightmaps and Light Bleeding

• Part 28 - Post Process and Color Grading

• Part 29 - Adding Lights around Emissive Sources

• Part 30 - Final Render Settings and Adding Iggy Character

• Part 31 - Light Clean Up Check and Renaming

• Part 32 - Additional final lighting for details

Edited Source Files for "Setting up Static Lighting UE5"

• Read me before downloading materials

• M_Floor_Yellow_LightON_Inst.uasset

• SM_Floor_01_1.uasset

• SM_Floor_01_1.FBX

• T_Walls_NRM.uasset

• T_Wall_CLR.uasset

• T_Wall_SPEC_UP.uasset

• T_Wall_SPEC_UP.psd

Understanding Specific Art Fundamentals Part 1

• Part 32 - Understanding Lighting in Painting

• Part 33 - Understanding Value in Painting

• Exercise 3

Polar Facility (Overcast Lighting)

• Part 34 - Quick pointers on sky import and material setup

• Part 35 - Organize Old Lighting for Overcast

• Part 36 - Streamline Differences

• Part 37 - Reminder about EV references for Overcast

• Part 38 - Adjusting EV for Overcast

• Part 39 - Adjusting Directional Light for Overcast

• Part 40 - Fixing Exp Height Fog for Static Overcast

• Part 41 - Artistic Exposure and Local Lighting Adjustments

• Part 41B - Mindset of Lighting Real Time Lighting

• Exercise 4

Polar Facility (Night Lighting - Using general principles)

• Exercise 5

• Part 42 - Incorrect PBR Night Lighting Demonstration (Still looks good)

• Part 43 - Starting Over Night Lighting Correctly (and Why?)

• Part 44 - Explaining EV using Candle Principle

• Part 45 - The Purkinje Effect Principle

• Part 46 - Setup and importance of White Balance Principle

• Part 47 - Finding Lux/Lumens and inputting base values to start with

• Part 48 - Adjusting Interior Lighting accordingly...

• Part 49 - Exposure Curve Adjustments

• Part 50 - Night Lighting Adjustments

• Part 51 - Quick Update to Glass Tank Material

• Part 52 - How update lighting differently

Polar Facility - (Sunset Lighting )

• Exercise 6

• Part 52 - Sunset Lighting Sky Atmosphere Version

• Part 53 - Sunset Lighting HDRI Sky Version

• Part 54 - Water Shader Fix

• Part 54 b - The thought process of lighting

Game Optimization

• Part 55 - Introduction to Game Optimization

• Exercise 7

Understand Specific Art Fundamentals Part 2

• Part 56 - Color Temperature Harmony in relation to real time lighting

• Exercise 8

Light Functions

• Part 57 - Basic Light Function

Unreal 5 - Bonus Sessions

• Co Working Session - Creative Lighting in Unreal 5 using Lumens - Sample Video

Common Questions

• What part of the material is suppose to be metallic?

• Do we turn off sRGB on materials for metallic specular?

• Why isn't my white bar in EV Histogram moving like yours?

• How to fix bloom convolution being too glow or bright?

• How to fix texture streaming pool memory red text issue crashes?

• Why aren't my shadow from the cubes showing up?

• Why is there stationary or movable light in a baked environment? (Red X's)

• Moving wrong lights from wrong lighting scenario level