This is such a good question :D My last livestream was about this if you want to check that out! If you're just beginning, I'd recommend building environments in Unreal using Quixel Megascans to get a feel for it. Why? The biggest reason is it's free. When you're ready to create your own 3D models and characters, that's when it's time to learn Blender (free) or move onto Maya if you want to work at a VFX studio. We also have a free Unreal crash course you can check out! www.unrealforvfx.com/crashcourse

@@JoshToonen Thanks so much! I will check it out for sure

For rendering sequences

No it's gaslighting title Every content creator uses.😂😂😂

Because the difference is so obvious path tracing vs real time. I mean if you couldnt piece that together then thats your problem.

Just to confirm, eevee is not getting raytracing but rather screen-space global illumination. Having a workflow in only place is great for small projects but if you want to do everything to perfection especially for larger projects, its better to do it in specialised propgrams. Eg substance painter for textured, blender for modelling layout and previewing and ue5 for renderings. Your exact workflow depends on your preference

Ideally you want more VRAM but it’s enough to get started! Check out our free crash course at unrealforvfx.com/lightsaber

He's talking about rendering. Things need to be compared so people know their options

He's speaking strictly about rendering, not the entire process

Can I use the unreal engine to make the 3D animations videos in real time. I already learned a different software for the 3D modelling. Can I run the unreal engine in my laptop having RTX 3050 GPU with 95 watt and ryzen 5 5600H CPU.

@@shrishtichauhan2787 yes that machine is very capable running it

@@bazinga2 But when I rendered the wild west environment in the unreal engine my software crash and freezes after 5 minutes and can't get full render.

May be you should follow render tricks. I think it is available in you tube videos. I'm following same way for Blender

If all artists gave up and used AI it would start inbreeding. AI cannot survive without the original work of actual artists

@@emackenzie also true

why? blender is much more versatile. yes if you just put bunch of asstes int ue and then animate them, then ok...

@@brekol9545 I create models in blender, unwrap and texture them (only because I am not paying for substance designer and painter at the moment). Animated models also get their skeleton and weights in blender but that’s all. And skinning meshes is going to be added to unreal 5.3 too, depending on how well that works, that’s possibly another part of the workflow moved to unreal. I don’t see blender disappearing fully from my workflow anytime soon but unreal is starting to take away part of what I used to use blender for bit by bit

lol, he said Unreal is better for rendering, that is all. When it comes to creating your assets, unreal is not even an option.

@@UltimateCerberus have you looked into unreal's modeling tools recently? I'm not going to claim they're on par with blender but they're being developed really quickly and for a lot of thing, yes you can 100% make assets right in engine. Now it even has support for creating skeletons and weight painting them right in engine. By no means would I call unreal on-par with blender yet in all regards but it's closer than you might think and with the speed unreal is developing (and the seemingly endless budget behind it), i won't be surprised if that gap keeps getting more and more small. As someone who works with both at the moment, being able to switch over to just working in unreal and cutting out exporting from blender, then importing in unreal is worth it in a lot of cases. Now , if you're working in a bigger team with a dedicated artists who prefers blender, i'm not gonna scold them for that, they can prefer blender, maya, C4D, whatever but as a solo creator, having it all in 1 place is sweet

@@thegamedevcave the day it has something as close to how you can edit mesh, use modifiers, sculpt, or even something close to geometry nodes, I'll take that seriously. By now, they are very different tools.

Not true - 1060 is enough

Accurig is my go to, I haven't noticed any problems importing into Unreal personally

@@JoshToonen ok, i have managed to rig with autorig and retarget the ue5 manny animations to my model in ue5, but once i do that the shoulders are too high and don't reflect how he looks in autorig any idea why ?

ue5 got a modern UI update

you never see blender interface?

Not knowing how to use something doesn't make it objectively shitty. Have you tried following tutorials?

Have you started, and how are you finding it? Im looking to make a short cinematic in UE. Just learning some tutorials atm

you still need to learn some 3D Modelling if you want to make your own assets to have your own environment. Its not the same when you use premade assets. You can still do either of course, but it's more rewarding if you make everything yourself. Plus the video is only talking about using UE5 to render, not to really make stuff. There are modelling tools in UE5 but not the same as what you'd use in blender

You need Blender for lot of things to work with UE5, unreal cannot do everything.

Thank you all for answers. Now I’m convinced and sure to learn blender too

It doesnt take hundreds of hours to get started and make some stuff, just start and dont procrastinate, it's not so scary at all. Start with the standard donut tutorial then some tutorial of something youd like to make, and then try on your own

There’s also the built in Pathtracer in UE5 which eventually I’ll make some videos on! Totally valid though, it can take a while to wrap your head around UE5s lighting. To get faster, I used UE5s pathtracer as a “ground truth”, would screenshot it and then match my viewport to the pathtracer render. Hopefully that helps!

Eevee is *like* real-time but not real-time, and when making a film the difference can add up. (Think of creating 100 shots in a 10 minute film). You need to boost your render settings when rendering in Eevee but you don’t in Unreal, what you see is what you get and Unreal has a better quality lighting system and no geometry limits (plus you can pathtracer if you need to)

@@JoshToonen ah, gotcha. I get it now. Thanks!

Eevee doesn't compare. It doesn't have GI and it is still slower than Unreal. However, Eevee next is set to be released this within a year, and that might change things.

​@@binyaminbasseven eevee next is still going to be inferior to ue5 lumen unfortunately since it is screenspace and not ray traced

True. There's no perfect solution, however, since importing from Blender to Unreal is a time consuming process with lots of troubleshooting. It seems like there is a tradeoff either way you go.@@chasingdaydreams2788