Unreal Engine asset files from YouTube tutorials

This is a raw copy of the Unreal Engine 4 & 5 projects used in some of the tutorials on the Tech Art Aid YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TechArtAid

What's included

The archive contains all the levels (.umap) and assets (.uasset) - textures, models, materials, blueprints - presented in the following Tech Art Aid YouTube tutorials:

• How to fix translucent materials (dithered opacity)
• Stylized colors using gradient mapping
• Stealth Invisibility Effect (With Distortion)
• Detailed Texture Blending with HeightLerp and Vertex Painting
• Dynamic Texture Coordinates (Animated, Generated UVs)
• UE4 Optimization: Instancing
• Good-Looking Randomization for Procedural Buildings
• Making Tools for Level Art in Pure UE5 (only Blueprints, no 3rd party assets)
• Making Tools in Blueprint with Editor Utility Widgets (only Blueprints, no 3rd party assets)
• Volumetric Materials Part 1 & 2
• 2D Shadows Using Signed Distance Fields
• Porting ShaderToy Code to Unreal
• Audio Visualization
• High-Quality 2D Shapes in Materials by Using SDFs
• Material Tricks for Instanced Static Meshes
• and more (for example most of the Twitch streams so far)

Not included are: third-party content (Megascan, Epic example files), source files (uncompressed textures, editable 3D models).

On June 1, 2021 I made the old project compatible with Unreal Engine 5 too (download the appropriate zip file).

License

All files in this folder and its subfolders are licensed under CC-BY 4.0:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

It means you are free to copy and redistribute the files. You can also use and remix them for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you mention Tech Art Aid in credits, description or other appropriate place.

Support

If you have problems with the archive or something is missing, reach me at: support -at- techartaid.com. I'll do my best to solve technical issues with the product.

~Oskar

Changelog

• 2022-10-30: Renamed the .zip files for easy navigation
• 2022-03-02: Added "ProcLvlTools_UE5" zip, which contains Blueprints for most of Twitch streams in 2021-2022
• 2021-05-30: Updated the project to Unreal Engine 4.26 & 5.0 (separate .zip)
• 2017-06-06: Updated the project to Unreal Engine 4.16.1
• 2017-01-17: Added files from "UE4: Good-Looking Randomization for Procedural Buildings"
• 2016-11-07: Added files from "UE4 Optimization: Instancing"
• 2016-08-23: Added files from "UE4: Transforming Texture Coordinates in a Material". Folder is called PlanarUV.
• 2016-07-31: Replaced Unreal's content examples with own meshes and materials. Now you can just unzip the archive and it's ready to use.