Unreal Engine Octahedral Impostors and How to make LODs

Optimize assets in UE4 to generate LODs and create great LODs! Increase FPS of Unreal Engine with impostors LOD

3.30 (42 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Game Development
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Unreal Engine Octahedral Impostors and How to make LODs
859
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6 hours
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Jul 2023
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$39.99
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What you will learn

How to create better LODs in UE4

How to create Octahedron Impostors for Unreal Engine

Optimize assets to gain more FPS in Unreal

Step by step guide about how to create LODs for your assets in Unreal Engine

Good habits and practices for creating and finishing a LOD with Impostor

Why take this course?

In this course, I will teach you how to optimize your StaticMesh from LOD0 to your last LOD in UNREAL ENGINE and stay as close to the original as possible without any strange transition. In the end I will show you how to generate Octahedral Impostors in UE4 and put in your last LOD, optimizing your assets as much as possible and gaining a lot of FPS performance in your Unreal Engine game.

The ImpostorBaker plugin created by Ryan Brucks will be used in a version of mine modified to accept Unreal Engine 4.22, 4.23, 4.24, 4.25, 4.26 & 4.27. An exclusive version is present in this course along with a new map to create our Impostors more easily and accurately.

We will practice to the maximum the creation of our Octahedral Impostors and show some important configurations and tips to make it as equal as possible.


The course is divided into several sections:

  1. We will create the impostors for various assets of the Kite Demo, Brushify, Michael Gerard assets course, Koolala Snow Scene, Modular Cliff.


  2. We will learn how to optimize LODs by creating from scratch, using only the tools of the Unreal Engine, tips on how to facilitate our work by reusing LODs settings for other assets, and comparing our lod with the old lod.


  3. We will create our final impostor after several training sessions, and we will create it after creating our LODs and using our last lod to have a smooth transition between all the LODs from the densest mesh to the impostor.


If you are in UE5 that is not is my problem, this course not is for Unreal Engine 5. is like if this was a Windows 10 course and you are using Windows 11.



Reviews

Magnus
July 2, 2023
I thought initially we were going to get a solid presentation on Imposters but instead it got real messy and inconsistent. 1. The author claims on several occasions "This is a free course on Udemy" - It was not free, i paid for it 2. The course spans over 6 hours but if the authour had planned this through on papoer before and had been prepared it could possibly and effectively been boiled down to 1 hour - Now this course is all over the place never coming to point which makes it more annoying than enjoyable, i had to fast forward through the majority of lectures to get a picture of it with a lot of trial and error how this plugin works. 3.- The author uses assets from a paid course from Michael Gerard on Udemy that currently is $39.90 - This is the worst mistake as most every other lecture is using the assets which leads the student to have either a different result than in the course or pay up to get those assets - This has to be the biggest NO-NO when you do a course here.. the student shouldn't have to pay extra to finish a course, or at least this should be stated initially for the student to make a valid decision. 4. This course uses a modified plugin that with the initial inconsistent teaching how to use it took litterally half of the course.. Someone said go to lecture 46 to summarize how to use it which is more true but it's still not consistent. With a little Trial and error i got this to work for most assets that doesn't have the same material node structure so it's fairly easy once you understand this. The course is exciting if you look at it on paper and could easily get a really good rating, but re-do this course and make it effective, skip the stuff that has no meaning and shorten it down to the effective parts, use only free assets and i could change the poor rating.
内ノ村嘉康
January 29, 2023
Video streaming stops frequently and I can't watch it properly. Please make it available for download on PC.
Roshondas
July 6, 2022
The author repeats the information very often. Generally it is ok. If anyone knows the basics of UE4, I suggest watching only tutorial 46.
Remo
August 31, 2021
hard to understand at times but it is nice he explains how to install his plugin. How that plugin would differ from the official one is not known though.
Trevor
November 27, 2020
The author is all over the place and the video stream is disconnected and runs very poorly making a poorly organised course far worse..
Emanuele
November 22, 2020
It took 10 minutes to explain something that needed 1 minute. I could't watch it at 1080 becasue download is not fast enough. The issue is not on my side, since I can use other websites video streaming at full hd right now.
Jan
October 4, 2020
This course is specified to a certain technique in unreal engine 4 from epic. It was very informative and well made. The topics where repetitive enough to learn the basics but also diverse in its samples and methods. The only downside for me was the 720p resolution of the recording, but it didnt affected the main training.

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