Lighting in Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners

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This tutorial is for the beginners out there. Lighting is tricky. It's not always the most obvious thing to get right, and lighting in Unreal poses its own share of challenges on top of that. That's where this video comes in, where we'll learn all about the very fundamentals of light, what kind of lights are available to us, how they work, how to make of the most of them, followed by a deep explanation of how light behaves in the real world, and mimicking that in Unreal. Then we'll learn how to light an environment from total scratch, twice. Once for a daytime lighting, and a second time for an overcast, dark, moody day look.
Fasten your seatbelt because this is a long one!

- Visit CG Spectrum if you want to learn Unreal Engine with the guidance of a mentor:
https://hubs.ly/Q01bDPsw0
Or visit their YouTube channel here:
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- To learn more about baked lighting:
   • Bake Lighting FASTER with GPU Lightma...  

- Deep dive on LUMEN:
   • Lumen Explained - IMPORTANT Tips for UE5  

- Learn about NANITE:
   • Nanite: Everything You Should Know [U...  

- Dedicated video about the SKYLIGHT:
   • Demystifying the Skylight [Unreal Eng...  

- Megascans Abandoned Apartment Scene:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketpl...

Article about why 18% grey is mid-grey:
https://www.diyphotography.net/what-i...


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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro
00:41 - CGSpectrum
01:35 - Project Settings
03:18 - Lighting Basics & Light Types
10:09 - Lighting Basics & The Magic Sauce
13:18 - VSM vs Raytraced Shadows
16:07 - Helpers & Guides
17:45 - Indirect Lighting
20:17 - Reflective Objects Quick Tip
23:13 - Emissive Materials
25:21 - Lighting your Scene & Daylight
33:49 - GODRAYS!
39:19 - Overcast Lighting

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