Important! At 6:29 100 billion should be 100 million I misspoke whoops

In UE5, make sure to choose Subdivison Type>LatLong when creating your sphere, or the spherical texture maps won't apply correctly. Also, I had to set my Earth sphere scale to 4,000,000 rather than 2,000,000 as the tutorial says, for some reason.

12:00 - Dot product, to put in simple terms is "how much" two vectors (or directions) are aligned. The resulting value is a scalar (directionless) value indicating how much the directions are aligned or apart. If we are working with unit vectors (essentially just the directions and not their magnitudes) to begin with, then the resulting value will be strictly within the range [-1,+1]; -1 implying that the directions are exactly opposite to each other and 0 meaning they are at perpendicular and +1 meaning they are absolutely aligned. So, when we are taking the dot product of the light direction and the vertex normal, we are basically asking, how much is the light aligned to the normal. Technically, if we are at a perfect alignment then the light source is hitting the exact underneath side of the geometry's face (the face that's nearest to the vertex normal that is) and thus making the face darkest, so we would get 1 as the result if we are considering unit vectors or a clamped result. For our usage though, we want this dark area to be represented by 0 for usage as a mask, hence we flip the value with an One Minus to get the Darkest area (analogously the vertex) as 0 and the brightest area (analogously the vertex) as 1.

Thank you, Zak. You deliver an incredible amount of information without making it overwhelming to folks new to Unreal. The pace and level of detail is perfect. I also appreciate that you get right to the subject rather than wasting time with a pointless and rambling introduction. Please keep doing what you are doing.

at @15:00 the box that magically appears used to set the emmissive color is a 'Constant3Vector'.

At 32:35 he says "Let's go into Foliage Paint" and means to say "Landscape Paint." I am clearly an auditory learner here and didn't see the visual cue of him clicking into landscape paint mode. Thought I would throw it in the comments in case anyone else wondered why their texture brushes weren't present. Also very grateful for these tutorials. Thank you for this quality content!

I'm trying to get up the motivation to get into this, videos like yours make it a LOT easier to consider. Last time I built anything was with the Neverwinter Nights toolset. Things have come a LONG way since then.

Omygorsh... I was blown away in just the first 7 minutes. A whole friggin' planet... First, the new modelling tool, totally amazing. But then.. a planet with atmosphere. Love it!

One of the best Unreal Engine 4 content on youtube hands down. I liked n sub'ed. Keep up the great work. Trouble shooting - for anyone not seeing the plugins "Modeling Tools Editor Mode" its because you are most likely not using a updated project. Opening your project through 4.25.3 which will tell you that your project was created with a older version of unreal blah blah hit yes create copy and when your project loads you'll see the plugins Edit>Plugins>[Click]Built-In>Search Bar~Modeling .

It would be nice if landscapes 'adhered' to the surface. In real life the average distance to the horizon from the human eye (if the ground were flat) is only about 4km. This also helps give a sense of scale and position.

Sensei, would you happen to want to remake this tut up to date with UE5? that'd be rad

Hi! I too was inspired by the video you mentioned. I picked up a 2 tricks keen folk can try. 1. Add an infinite postprocessvolume and change bloom method to convolution. Check out the sun then! 2. Epic have created a procedural planet we can use! The beauty of this is that its like kerbal and has surface lod. (farside of planet is low detail, highest closest to cam). Enable volumetrics plugin . restart. Enable show engine content and show plugin content under Content view options. Now you can file open level. Volumetrics content/sky/maps and either of the two levels. (oh and you get volumetric clouds to play with too!)

You even showed how to implement it in a gameplay scenario, you are amazing!

What a great tutorial! Hope Zach can make a same one but for UE5 :)

ooh ,so this is where they got the idea for earth 2 xD

I just switched from Unity to Unreal Engine and this just saved my project. Thank you.

It's Unreal Sensei! I was pleasantly surprised when I opened this video. You do the best tutorials for beginners like me.

Nice! If you modulate the city light mask by the inverse cloud texture, the clouds will block out some of the lights on the shadowed side of the planet.

You deserve Epic Megagrants

Sensei is Andrew Kramer of Unreal Engine. The beginner tutorials have really made me a huge fan.

The very beginning selection in the Modeling Tool, is different now in 4.26.2 and 4.27.0. You have to select a specific primitive from the selection, and thus the details also change e.g. shape settings>Polygroup Mode>per face, single, per quad...so the menu as well as the selection isn't the same. Which sphere would equal what you created?

It's not glitchy. Your space ship just has its warp drive engaged.🚀😊

This is pure gold

LOVE these videos man. You do a great job! Can't wait for the next one

If you kept the Sky Atmosphere at 6360cm which from what I can tell is a 1:1 scale of the atmosphere of the earth. Then the size of the 256 side sphere at the default 50cm should be scaled up to 12,720,000 if you want a 1:1 scale Earth

Thanks! This was an amazing tutorial! I am trying to make a video game and this was very helpful. I didn't do the surface and animation part, but I did make the planet. I also went a few steps further and set the angle of the Earth to 23.5 degrees, made it rotate, and overall made it look a little nicer.

what a beautiful spear.. very nice work

I guess make a series concerning all about orbital and rotating day and night with this transitional gameplay, also fix the spaceship :D but thanks this will answer my question long time ago

I wish I understood 1/2 the words you were saying, amazing stuff man

First time on this channel, and your tutorial is amazing! Thank you.

a note for some new people, in U.E 5 and i think in the 4 too, you don´t need to put de value of the block at -100000000, you can just go in sky atmosphere and change the box transform mode at the center. this implies that you can change the size of the world and the atmosphere

That Guy Thanks, I will look into it later.

At 15:32, I would mask the clouds by brightness not opacity since there should still be clouds during the night. They are not just as bright as during the day :)

Восхищен! Очарован! Создатель программы без преувеличения гений.

Amazing Tut !!! have a quick question. After building the light the earth land has disappeared .. Any ideas ?

your tutorials are nothing short of being amazing, really superb... especially with providing assets.... for example didnt know what doest it mean that 1e+06 in divide node, but then I opened it and saw even your comment WHY you did it... giving us the answer to WHY is in my opinion one of the most important aspects of didactic.... now I have a question: would it be possible to make volumetric clouds around the globe? that would be soooooo cool....

I would love a tutorial on how to make space in general.. like how to slipstream between "levels" to make it feel like space (so say you fly for 1 hour in 1 direction, how to keep it smooth)

Thanks for the tutorial! I learned a lot! I wasn't convinced with how you worked the clouds so I found another way around. Basically I wanted the clouds to be visible if there was some bounce light from the dark side. What I've done: I set the material domain as Deferred Decal, with blend mode translucent. White base color, and the texture applied to opacity (with the panner so it spins). Now If I have some light source (bouncing light) from the dark side, clouds will be propperly iluminated.

This guy has me saying “spear “ lol thanks for the video this is awesome!

It’s been awhile since I saw one of your videos

A smile can change a day

I can't believe this. I'm trying but I literally can't belive it.

what a nice new channel xD keep it up!

@Unreal Sensei think you could make this exact tutorial again but with UE5's latest techniques and updated features?

46:28 The ground view is at 1-3 FPS. Space is around 20 FPS.

Dayum! That's a sweet tutorial for planet creations. Thank you for showing us the Magic!

I'm new here I've subscribed and turned on notifications, I'm about to go through your channel for more extremely useful (seriously this is very useful) tutorials. Hope you keep making more tutorials like this. Thank you

How are you zooming out so fast? I've tried with the alt-z / alt-c, no love. I've also tried the numpad arrow keys but I'm still spending like 5 minutes to get anywhere at these scales. Thank you. Great video.

Thank you for the tutorial!!!... 🙏🙏🙏 Amazing and Mind Blowing!!!... 🤯🤯🤯

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Appreciate it brother, this is fantastic.

you could add the ability to land anywhere on the planets by moving that terrain to where you're landing, with a snap.

15:00 What is name this color node "0,0,0" ? Can you tell me the name please ? Because Sensei made the node with keyboard shortcut

So crazy - Today, a game engine can generate full-scale planets within MINUTES. I remember when I was blown away by Space Engineers' planets and thought this would stay "unique" for a long time. I was wrong. Amazing.

amazing

Thank you for showing the setup for the sun over the night sky...I was struggling with that in my current project and this saved me haha!

The camera technique for zooming out is a classic, they used it in the nightmare and Elm Street 3 film when one of the characters got filmed in a junkyard.

really cool tutorial. matches a shot I was working on pretty well I needed to know about that material switcher component for a project It will be very useful thx!

Well done and good luck with the new channel, subbed!

Hey Mr Sensei, cool tutorials, thus We are waiting for more:D:D pls

I created Mars using your technique thank you! I have one question though, how do you add a height map to a static mesh?

wow, guy, you're awesome

Awesome content🔥🔥 I noticed UE5's layout was a little different, could you do an update for UE5 for beginners like myself?

When your doing the clouds you magically clicked and a node with 0,0,0 appeared for the emissive color. I can't figure out how you got to that node.. :(

Love the passion, thanks for getting me started!

Thank you for the video! Really nice tutorial!!

Thanks bro, done on my side, works like a charm, learned a TON

Anyone here familiar with Outerra? I bought that for $15 a few years ago, and I was in awe. Sensei here recreated all that in minutes.

This. Is. Incredible.

Dude this is exactly what I've been looking for for the last 3 months! Thank you so much!!!!!

This is really nice bro :)

Hi, I have a problem while importing texture on sphere I was squashed and didn't wrap properly I put all the values the same and cross-checked can anyone please help?? and thank you for this tutorial.

Awesome, thank you...

Thanks for the tutorial, it's a bit hard for a new user to keep up but at 12 mins into it and 3 hrs of hair pulling im on track with the 12 min point lol.

Thank you.

Thisis a brilliant tutorial. thanks for the demonstration!

Amazing tutorial! Can't wait to give this a try some day.

Unbelievable !

I think you need to do a follow up video on how in the hell do you get the character to walk around on the sphere please.

Great tutorial thanks so much for explore our idea to creative something future.

Thank you for the video! I've been looking for this for a long time!

If you could do an Update for UE 5 you would forever be my hero!!!

Thank you so much

Skyatmospherelightdisk luminance - that is what im looking for! Thx!)

wow....what a fine presentation. Learned a great deal and look forward to using this move in the future....Bravo

Mr. Sensei you are the best!

Subtracting a slight constant after the inverse (0.2 or so) from M_Earth's emissive color will reduce the city lights bleeding into lit areas.

Excellent video. Thank you!

Using 4.27. How do you zoom out so quickly? I cant get it to zoom out that far

Very clear, Thank you so much

Do you know how to change the sun disks through materials? I have two Directional lights using the new indexing system but no clue how to change the look of the moon for example.

i downloaded the assets and extracted but they dont import. it says UASSET is unknow extension

I love Unreal engine 5.❤

Stunning!

Here's some numbers that work with the sky atmosphere default value. Height -636000000 and scale 12720169.176. I just worked out the percentage difference and applied it to the other numbers, wasn't hard really. Oh, I did tweak the scale slightly as I was getting black on the horizon.

Commenting before this channel reaches a million subs.

At 05:41 you don't need to do that, as there's a setting right there under the Sky & Atmosphere, called "Transform Mode" and if you set it to "Planet Center at Component Transform" it'll basically shift the whole atmosphere around your planet so that the planet is now at the center of the atmosphere's sphere. Also, at 15:22 there's no need to re-use that Dot product trick, as the reason why your clouds are illuminated at night is because your clouds material is using a Lighting Mode that doesn't take into account Directional information. Try changing that and see it'll get fixed. And if you'll still have a weird white ring around the earth in the night portions, just uncheck the "Two sided" option, as it's strange seeing illuminated clouds through their backface, from the dark side of the earth.

thank you.it s exciting and fun

Thank You

thanks, really great stuff!

Good stuff!