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Environment Creation Automation Taught by a Certified Instructor - Unreal PCG Practical Class

🌿 Class Introduction This course focuses on learning Unreal Engine's Procedural Content Generation (PCG) system through a practical, hands-on approach. You will learn step-by-step techniques to automatically place complex terrain, roads, trees, and lighting, allowing you to build an efficient environment production pipeline without repetitive manual work. Rather than just listing nodes, we use a structural approach that can be applied immediately to projects to maximize production speed. 🚀 💡 3 Reasons Why This Class Is Special ❶ Practical PCG Approach We focus on **'project-centered design'** rather than just listing features. By linking core systems such as landscapes, splines, and level instances, you will build an automation pipeline and experience production efficiency at least three times faster than manual work. ⚡ ❷ Full Integration of PCG Graphs × Blueprints We create a structure where artists and programmers can work together by exposing PCG parameters to Blueprints. With a systematic PCG design that can control density, meshes, and even materials, you will secure powerful scalability even for large-scale projects. 🧩 ❸ Automation, Efficiency, and Scalability Implement everything from spline-based automatic placement of roads, streetlights, and fences to material and vegetation changes based on terrain slope. Complete real-world environment automation logic, such as automatically clearing forests around roads using 'Difference' and 'Distance' nodes. 🌲 Instructor Portfolio: twinvion.com

25 learners are taking this course

Level Beginner

Course period 5 months

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What you will gain after the course

  • ✅ Understand PCG principles and apply them immediately to practice

  • ✅ Establishing an automated blueprint integration pipeline

  • ✅ Landscape/Spline-based automatic environment placement

  • ✅ Efficient scene production design without repetition

[Unreal Engine 5] Practical Large-Scale Environment Creation Automation with PCG


🌿 Class Introduction: Smart Level Design Without Repetitive Tasks

How much longer will you keep planting trees one by one for 3D environment production? This course focuses on practical applications of Unreal Engine's latest feature, the PCG (Procedural Content Generation) system, to teach you how to automatically place complex terrain, roads, forests, lighting, and more.

Go beyond simply connecting nodes and build an efficient unreal-engine5-based environment production pipeline that can be applied to projects immediately. We help you break away from repetitive and tedious manual labor so you can focus on creative design.


💡 3 Reasons Why This Class Is Special

1. Practical PCG approach and pipeline design

This is not a lecture that simply lists features. It is a "design-oriented" course focused on how they are used in actual projects. You will build an automation pipeline by organically linking core systems such as Landscape, Spline, and Level Instances. Through this, you can experience a production speed improvement of at least 3 times compared to manual work.

2. Perfect Integration of PCG Graphs and UE Blueprints

PCG alone has its limitations. In this lecture, we maximize scalability by integrating the unreal-blueprint with the PCG system.

  • Expose PCG parameters to Blueprints for intuitive control

  • Designing a structure that makes it easy for artists and programmers to collaborate

  • System-based PCG that controls density, meshes, and even materials

By creating custom logic using UE Blueprint and linking it with PCG graphs, you can build a powerful tool that responds flexibly even in large-scale projects. để lập trình logic tùy chỉnh và kết nối với biểu đồ PCG, bạn có thể tạo ra một công cụ mạnh mẽ có khả năng ứng biến linh hoạt ngay cả trong các dự án quy mô lớn.

3. Implementing Automation Logic with Living Detail

It doesn't stop at simple placement. You will complete detailed logic, such as automatically removing trees where a road passes using 'Difference' and 'Distance' nodes, or automatically changing vegetation and materials based on the slope of the terrain. It covers all the automation techniques required in actual game development environments, such as automatically generating streetlights and fences along splines.


🎯 Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, you will acquire the following skills.

  • ✅ Fully understand the operating principles of PCG and apply them immediately to practical work

  • ✅ Building an automated pipeline linked with Blueprints within Unreal Engine

  • ✅ Automated large-scale environment placement using landscapes and splines

  • ✅ Ability to design efficient scene production by eliminating repetitive tasks


👥 Recommended for the following people

  • 3D artists who are tired of repetitive object placement tasks and dream of efficiency

  • Unreal graphic designers who need to improve production speed and build pipelines

  • unreal-engine5 developers who want to automate large-scale open worlds or environments.

  • Students who want to learn systematic Procedural Generation techniques


🧭 Notes Before Taking the Course

This course is based on Unreal Engine 5.x. Anyone with a basic understanding of editor controls and materials can take this course. It is structured so that you can follow along even without complex coding knowledge (Python, C++).


Instructor Portfolio: twinvion.com

Recommended for
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Who is this course right for?

  • 3D artists tired of repetitive object placement

  • Unreal Engine graphic designers who need to improve their speed

  • Developers who want to automate large-scale environments

  • Students who want to learn an efficient production pipeline

Need to know before starting?

  • This course is based on Unreal Engine version 5.x.

  • Anyone can take this course as long as they have a basic understanding of editor operations and materials,

  • You can complete it even without knowledge of Python or C++.

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This is vion

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Epic Games Unreal Authorized Instructor

Hello, I am Vion, a 5th-year Unreal Engine developer and Unreal Authorized Instructor.

Unreal Engine is powerful, but it is also vast and complex. When learning on your own, it is easy to pick up bad habits or write inefficient code that "just works." Based on a curriculum and teaching methods verified by Epic Games, I will guide you so that you can take the 'most accurate path.'

In particular, by combining PCG (Procedural Content Generation), which has recently been gaining attention, with Blueprints, I aim to share 'technical know-how' that reduces simple repetitive tasks and maximizes development efficiency. With five years of practical experience and the expertise of a certified instructor, I promise to deliver living knowledge that can be applied immediately in the field.

 

Instructor Portfolio: twinvion.com

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