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DISCLAIMER: In this course you will learn Unreal Engine 5’s lighting and lighting systems (includes new 5.1 settings). This is not a full explainer video, I WILL NOT go over every settings in Unreal Engine 5.1.

Project Files are included in Lecture 2: Part 2 section.

*WINDOWS 10 ONLY* *NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR GPU GETS FRIED FOLLOWING THIS TUTORIAL BE CAREFUL*

Recommended Hardware Specs: Windows 10 64 Bit, 12-core CPU at 3.4 GHz, with an NVIDIA RTX 2080 or AMD Radeon 5700 XT graphics card or higher, and 64 GB of system RAM, atleast 500GB of hard drive space. If you own an Apple computer I am sorry but I am not familiar with Mac computers so I do not know if it works with Unreal. You will need Winrar software to unpack course material. Additionally to follow along the Path Tracer portion you will need:

Operating System: Windows 10 1809 or later

GPU: NVIDIA RTX and DXR driver-enabled GTX series graphics cards

What to expect to learn not in order:

Static Lighting

Stationary Lighting

Dynamic lighting

UV Lightmaps

Different Light Types

Unreal Engine 5’s Visual Effects Volumes

CPU Lightmass

GPU Lightmass

Environment Light Mixer

Lumen

Lumen with Hardware Ray Tracing (will require Windows 10 with DirectX 12 Video cards must be NVIDIA RTX-2000 series and higher, or AMD RX 6000 series and higher)

Lumen Software vs Hardware Raytracing

Path Tracing

Lighting from scratch (Lumen Daylight Exterior)

Lighting from scratch (Lumen Daylight Interior)

Lighting from scratch (Lumen Night Cyberpunk Exterior)

How to Optimize your scene’s lighting to prevent crashes and low FPS.