1 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:05,390 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,390 --> 00:00:12,320 ‫In this lecture, we're going to be creating a factory room and adding windows in or using unreal built 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:13,820 ‫in geometry brushes. 4 00:00:13,820 --> 00:00:15,890 ‫Let's dive in and see how they work. 5 00:00:16,580 --> 00:00:21,710 ‫So it's not generally best practice to be editing the default minimal level. 6 00:00:21,710 --> 00:00:26,150 ‫We want to be creating our own, so let's go ahead and do that. 7 00:00:26,150 --> 00:00:32,690 ‫First of all, we're going to go to the file menu and hit new level and select the template default 8 00:00:32,690 --> 00:00:35,390 ‫and hit create a new engine versions. 9 00:00:35,390 --> 00:00:40,910 ‫Your choice is going to look different in this case instead of using template default, please use the 10 00:00:40,910 --> 00:00:46,010 ‫basic here and click create and you're going to end up with a level that looks a little bit different 11 00:00:46,010 --> 00:00:49,970 ‫to what you're seeing in this lecture, but for all intents and purposes, it should serve the same 12 00:00:49,970 --> 00:00:50,450 ‫purpose. 13 00:00:50,450 --> 00:00:57,470 ‫And this gives us a little world with a nice sky sphere so that we've got clouds, and some of the default 14 00:00:57,470 --> 00:00:59,390 ‫lighting in here is good too. 15 00:00:59,390 --> 00:01:01,160 ‫So that's a good start. 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:07,430 ‫I'm going to delete the floor because what we're going to be doing in this lecture is creating our own 17 00:01:07,430 --> 00:01:14,060 ‫geometry, blocking out geometry, using the built in unreal geometry brushes, which are sometimes 18 00:01:14,060 --> 00:01:20,030 ‫also known as BSP, which stands for binary space partitioning, which is really the technical details 19 00:01:20,030 --> 00:01:20,870 ‫of how they work. 20 00:01:20,870 --> 00:01:22,520 ‫So that's not as informative. 21 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,680 ‫I will be calling them geometry brushes. 22 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:32,030 ‫Now the place that we go to add geometry brushes is the toolbar to the quickly add and then we go to 23 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:39,110 ‫the Place Actor's Panel, which is going to give us lots more functionality than that little menu provides 24 00:01:39,110 --> 00:01:39,560 ‫us. 25 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,590 ‫And then at the top of the place Actors Panel, you can see there are different sections and one section 26 00:01:45,590 --> 00:01:47,450 ‫is the geometry tab. 27 00:01:47,450 --> 00:01:49,100 ‫Let's go ahead and click on that. 28 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:54,560 ‫And you can see the basic building blocks of geometry that we can place with geometry brushes. 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,720 ‫You've got stairs, you've got spheres, cylinders, cones and boxes. 30 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:05,930 ‫So we're going to start by putting in a box brush, and you can see that it instantly starts with a 31 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:08,510 ‫little bit of a wireframe and then it fills it out. 32 00:02:08,510 --> 00:02:12,920 ‫And that's because these brushes can work in one of two ways. 33 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:21,020 ‫They can build up your geometry by kind of creating it, or they can carve it out by subtracting it. 34 00:02:21,020 --> 00:02:22,130 ‫And that's what we're going to do here. 35 00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:30,350 ‫We're going to create a little bit of a warehouse room, and we're going to achieve that by creating 36 00:02:30,350 --> 00:02:34,160 ‫an outer box which builds out a box. 37 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,630 ‫That's the entire room. 38 00:02:35,630 --> 00:02:39,170 ‫And then we're going to carve out the inner section. 39 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:41,420 ‫So let me show you how this works. 40 00:02:41,420 --> 00:02:44,360 ‫First of all, rename it in the outer liner so we can keep track of it. 41 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,980 ‫So select the box brush in the outline and hit F2 to rename it. 42 00:02:48,980 --> 00:02:54,980 ‫And we're going to call this the walls and then we're going to go ahead and scroll down in the details 43 00:02:54,980 --> 00:02:56,540 ‫pane to where it says brush settings. 44 00:02:56,540 --> 00:02:59,210 ‫And this gives us the size of the brush. 45 00:02:59,210 --> 00:03:05,720 ‫Now you can scale brushes up and down using the scale property of the transform, but that's not recommended 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,250 ‫because it's not going to correctly scale materials when we apply those later. 47 00:03:10,250 --> 00:03:14,210 ‫So don't touch the scale properties if you want your materials to look good. 48 00:03:14,210 --> 00:03:19,280 ‫Instead go down to your brush settings and you can tweak the size in here. 49 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:24,950 ‫So I'm going to size my room to be about 34 meters long. 50 00:03:24,950 --> 00:03:28,520 ‫So that's 34 times 100 in centimeters. 51 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,390 ‫It's going to be 27 meters wide. 52 00:03:32,570 --> 00:03:41,810 ‫And the height I'm going to give, which is the Z axis, is going to be 7.6 multiplied by 100, which 53 00:03:41,810 --> 00:03:44,030 ‫gives us 760. 54 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:49,340 ‫And that's going to give us a roughly kind of sports hall sized area, hopefully. 55 00:03:49,340 --> 00:03:54,890 ‫And we can tweak this when we bring in our assets to just check whether they are the right size. 56 00:03:54,890 --> 00:04:00,140 ‫Then the next thing we're going to do is we're going to take our walls brush and we're going to duplicate 57 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:03,380 ‫it by selecting the outline and doing a copy and paste. 58 00:04:03,380 --> 00:04:10,730 ‫And I'm going to call this Walls Subtract and we'll see why we called it subtract in just a second. 59 00:04:10,730 --> 00:04:16,850 ‫But we're going to go over to back to our walls brush because I want to expand that walls brush so it's 60 00:04:16,850 --> 00:04:22,250 ‫slightly bigger than the walls subtract brush, which is going to slot inside of it. 61 00:04:22,250 --> 00:04:27,440 ‫So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to each of the dimensions X, Y and Z in the brush settings. 62 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:33,440 ‫And I'm just going to add 200 equivalence to adding two meters to each one of these. 63 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:38,810 ‫And with that done, we're going to go back to our walls, subtract brush in the outline and scroll 64 00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:42,650 ‫down to the brush settings where it says brush type. 65 00:04:42,650 --> 00:04:47,270 ‫Here we want to select instead of additive, we want to select subtract it, which means that this brush 66 00:04:47,270 --> 00:04:51,560 ‫is going to carve away geometry rather than add it into our scene. 67 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,750 ‫Once we do that, you can see that we've got a little room because what we've done is we've created 68 00:04:56,750 --> 00:05:03,320 ‫a solid volume with the walls brush and then we've taken away the scooped out the center. 69 00:05:03,460 --> 00:05:05,500 ‫Using the wool subtract brush. 70 00:05:05,530 --> 00:05:09,490 ‫Now, before we go any further, we should save this new level that we've created. 71 00:05:09,490 --> 00:05:15,430 ‫So Control SX will bring up the save dialog and we can put it in the root of that content. 72 00:05:15,450 --> 00:05:18,730 ‫I'm going to call this the main map, just like that, just main. 73 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:24,820 ‫And what we want to do is also set it as the default when we start up the editor and when we start up 74 00:05:24,820 --> 00:05:25,150 ‫the game. 75 00:05:25,150 --> 00:05:32,080 ‫So we go to the settings button on the toolbar project settings and then with our project settings we 76 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,100 ‫go to the project section in the left and maps and modes. 77 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:41,020 ‫And then here there are two properties one to change the editor startup map and game default map. 78 00:05:41,020 --> 00:05:46,900 ‫Both of these need to be our new main level and then we can go ahead and close our settings again and 79 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:49,990 ‫this will open up in the future when we open our project. 80 00:05:49,990 --> 00:05:57,010 ‫Now, I'd like at this point to bring in some of the industry props that we have and the way we're going 81 00:05:57,010 --> 00:05:57,340 ‫to do this. 82 00:05:57,340 --> 00:06:02,230 ‫I'm just going to clear the filter by going to the filter button and hitting reset filters. 83 00:06:02,230 --> 00:06:05,200 ‫Then I'm going to open the industry props pack folder. 84 00:06:05,230 --> 00:06:11,710 ‫Then I'm going to go into meshes and I'm going to bring in the tallest item I know of, which is the 85 00:06:11,710 --> 00:06:12,250 ‫rack. 86 00:06:12,250 --> 00:06:18,130 ‫So I drag in the rack into the scene and you can see that the size of this rack is just about right 87 00:06:18,130 --> 00:06:19,600 ‫for the size of the room. 88 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,250 ‫So I'm fairly happy that we've created a good size of warehouse. 89 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:27,460 ‫Now I'd like to challenge you to make some windows. 90 00:06:27,460 --> 00:06:33,160 ‫The way we can do this is by adding some new box brushes in to the scene and making them subtractive. 91 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,470 ‫First of all, because we want to carve out those windows and then position them in the walls and size 92 00:06:38,470 --> 00:06:44,770 ‫them appropriately so that they punch holes through the walls and give you a nice window pause video 93 00:06:44,770 --> 00:06:46,390 ‫and see if you can do this. 94 00:06:49,540 --> 00:06:50,020 ‫Okay. 95 00:06:50,020 --> 00:06:50,860 ‫Welcome back. 96 00:06:50,860 --> 00:06:52,930 ‫Let me show you how I would approach this. 97 00:06:52,930 --> 00:06:58,690 ‫So I'm going to start off by making a hole in this wall to my left. 98 00:06:58,690 --> 00:07:03,550 ‫I'm going to take a box brush and drag it on to the wall itself. 99 00:07:03,550 --> 00:07:10,330 ‫Now, I want the size, the dimension of this to be large enough so that I can poke it through the wall. 100 00:07:10,330 --> 00:07:14,320 ‫So, first of all, let's go down to make it subtractive. 101 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:21,490 ‫So we go to brush type and change it to subtractive, and then we're going to push it through the wall 102 00:07:21,490 --> 00:07:23,260 ‫until it makes a nice little hole. 103 00:07:23,260 --> 00:07:30,790 ‫So there I've got a window already, but what I want to do is actually change its height and width a 104 00:07:30,790 --> 00:07:31,150 ‫little bit. 105 00:07:31,150 --> 00:07:33,520 ‫So its height would be the Z dimension. 106 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:38,590 ‫I'm going to try making that 400 and see if I like the look of it. 107 00:07:38,590 --> 00:07:40,300 ‫Yes, it's a nice tall window. 108 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:41,650 ‫Looks a little bit industrial. 109 00:07:41,650 --> 00:07:43,690 ‫So now we've got a window that I like the look of. 110 00:07:43,690 --> 00:07:50,500 ‫I'm going to rename the actor in the out liner, so I'm going to select it and hit F two. 111 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:52,450 ‫Then I'm going to call it window. 112 00:07:52,450 --> 00:07:56,350 ‫Just so we've got these windows named and sorted. 113 00:07:56,350 --> 00:08:02,950 ‫Then I'm going to hit Alt while dragging on the red arrow to create a duplicate window that comes out 114 00:08:02,950 --> 00:08:05,440 ‫named as window two, which is great. 115 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,190 ‫And in fact, I want to put these windows all inside a folder in the outline. 116 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:15,220 ‫So I'm going to select them both, right click them and click move to create new folder and call this 117 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:16,120 ‫windows. 118 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:17,920 ‫Then selecting our window two. 119 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:25,810 ‫I can keep dragging all the way across the room remembering to release alt between dragging and that 120 00:08:25,810 --> 00:08:32,800 ‫creates a new duplicate every time and then to make a copy of those windows across the room, I'm going 121 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:39,520 ‫to select them with a shift, click in the out liner and using an alt click on the Green Arrow. 122 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,850 ‫I'm going to duplicate them on to the other wall. 123 00:08:42,850 --> 00:08:50,230 ‫And there you have it, windows on both sides of our newly created geometry brush factory room. 124 00:08:50,230 --> 00:08:51,910 ‫I'll see you in the next lecture.