How To Create And Use A Custom Sky Sphere In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial)

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Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to create and use a custom skybox or sky sphere material for your projects inside of Unreal Engine 5. I'm going to be creating a space scene, but you can do whatever you like.
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00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Overview
00:34 - Creating The Sky Texture
02:42 - Creating The Skybox Material
04:50 - Using The Skybox In Our Level
05:47 - Final Overview
06:37 - Outro
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@stefankaminski2324 2 года назад

Perfect timing, just what I needed

@nolew Год назад

I'm very new to unreal and almost everytime I need to look something up your channel pops up, thank you for making these vids u earned my sub

@MattAspland Год назад

Glad you like them! Thanks for your support!

@janimusicshorts7707 2 года назад

very helpful thank you for these videos.

@Dante02d12 2 года назад

This Reflection Vector parameter is very interesting. With this we can make the Portal effect, right? You can also use it for 3D windows or distorsion stuff.

@SaintDeus Год назад

Thanks for precious video!

@FlynLatif 2 года назад

hah spent all yesterday looking for this exact thing and not getting what I want, and lone behold here is the exact example i wanted in my notifcations

@inklazer3447 8 месяцев назад

helped for uefn ty

@juegosarteytecnologia7327 53 минуты назад

I suggest using seamless pattern to create the sky sphere

@ninjagraphics1 10 месяцев назад

I had issues figuring out how to show the texture inside the sphere, as mine was only showing from outside. Then I enabled the Reverse Culling option on the sphere static mesh and it helped.

@Novsole 10 месяцев назад

thank you so much

@markarlit 10 месяцев назад

Where can i find this option?

@angry_karakuri 8 месяцев назад

Hey, I'm late but this is because of the normals facing the wrong way. There's backface culling by default. In 3D, faces go one way. It's basically like when you look at a wall from the other side and it's transparent. So, if you import a sphere from blender or such, you need to flip the normals.

@MartKart8 2 года назад

This is what I wanted for UE4 for my Third Person though

@CosmicColossus 2 года назад

hi matt could you make a tutorial where you can change your material on a thrid person/first person character with a widget kinda like a character customization thing

@alexkerasidis 2 года назад

Yeah boy!

@Unh1n93d Месяц назад

For those who are having issues using the image as a texture, MAKE SURE the image itself is in HDR format (NOT PNG) he says this in 1:23

@SurferXGhost1293 6 месяцев назад

5:06 I can't change the texture. Unreal don't let me

@pooptard5773 6 месяцев назад

same here

@MrTreeGuy 2 года назад

Can u please make a tutorial on how to make just a star skybox? Like for example u just need stars in a skybox and u will have a night sky with stars?

@WWatson99 2 года назад

It's exactly the same, you just need an image which is just stars. The default skybox texture does have editable star settings though if that's more convenient.

@wesss9353 2 года назад

Organization of folders might be interesting.

@tastysnak 2 года назад

How do you achieve this if you are not using the default map and don't have SM_SkySphere in your level? Bringing in a sphere static mesh doesn't seem to work. At least I don't know what settings I need to make it happen.

@sergeyfilinsky5398 Год назад

You need to create new blueprint, add static mesh component to it and in details window select SkySphere. If you don't have if - make sure editor content checkbox is ticked in search options

@tastysnak Год назад

@@sergeyfilinsky5398 I'll check that out. Thanks for the tip.

@Joseph12O Год назад

@@sergeyfilinsky5398 there is niagara static mesh also

@PixelsLaboratory Год назад

A normal sphere works perfectly fine, what error did you get?

@billB101 7 месяцев назад

How can you get the sky sphere to reflect in materials ( example a chrome sphere ) I can't get this to work?

@ice_queen9 Год назад

Is there a way to set a min and max on the emissive colour? it starts dim and then it gets super bright like the star wars hyper space effect. i'd like to be able to control that

@PixelsLaboratory Год назад

Just add a Multiply node and plug in the texture and a number. Make that number a Parameter, so u can change it from a material instance, then change it from your BP classes in any way you want. You can even make some effect in the material itself, like with some Sin() function which takes "time" as a parameter. Again, you'll need to setup some math for the time, in order to control the pulsation of the effect, as well as some addition, since by default, the Sin() fluctuates between -1 and 1.

@dennis7202 Год назад

hi im workin with unreal editor for fortnite and im new in this.. Did everything as you said but I don't see any sm_skysphere.. can i create it self?

@johnterpack3940 14 дней назад

Got the texturecube on the material. But it will not let me apply the material to the skylight. I can apply the texturecube directly to the skylight. Buy it doesn't show in-game when I do.

@johnterpack3940 15 дней назад

For some reason, the "Apply" button is grayed out in my material graph. Must be a setting turned off, or a plugin missing. But how do I figure it out?

@zdroid5818 5 месяцев назад

the sun disappeard i kinda wana keep it like the original directional light

@skyfizz4309 Год назад

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone here had the same problem has me : the material of the skysphere don't want to change. I choose my materal but it doesn't work, its stays with the default material :(

@Setsulinn Год назад

i have the same problem on ue4 and cant find any solutions :(

@lucian6172 Год назад

This sky is not lighting the scene and is not working with a SkyLight. How do you give it a "isSky" tag so that it works with the SkyLight ?

@warpup7778 Месяц назад

for some reason it keeps giving me an error when i use the new version of UE5, i do the exact same code and the param cube keeps giving an error.

@odesamusic 6 месяцев назад

When I add a reflection vector the image doesn't show on my sphere. any ideas how to fix it?

@3yu56moys Месяц назад

the same, did you find a solution?

@Shamanized Год назад

I got to the VERY LAST step to change the skybox material and it won't allow it for some reason. Not getting any error or anything, it's just not applying when I select my material

@davidjames8783 Год назад

Exactly the same for me. If I try the drag and drop method I even get the green dotted line telling me it should accept the new material, but then nothing changes - it stays with MaterialInstanceDynamic_0

@majaoszczypaa8752 Год назад

Same for me ://

@Setsulinn Год назад

@@majaoszczypaa8752 same

@PixelsLaboratory Год назад

My question is: if I have a perfectly tileable .png sky texture, that perfectly wraps onto a sphere as it is, why would I need to convert it to HDR and then feed the UVs node with additional info? I tried it like this, with just the texture itself and no world coordinates fed into the UV node and it looks perfect, with no seams or other artefacts. Can you please explain this little thing? Thanks so much!!!

@SciFi-F 11 месяцев назад

did you get an answer? I think the same, we are missing these explanations in these videos.

@PixelsLaboratory 11 месяцев назад

@@SciFi-F no answer until now... and I still keep on using my non-HDR skybox with no issues in production, all looks perfect, as the texture I have is seamlessly tileable.

@SciFi-F 11 месяцев назад

@@PixelsLaboratory thank you for answering, will leave it in the "why the hell is it done like this?" List :)

@snookofficial7211 Год назад

same issue as others, I no longer have the default skybox in my project to swap the material to :(

@PixelsLaboratory Год назад

Just add a normal sphere.

@NastyKnox 6 месяцев назад

Im using Unreal 5.3. It wont allow me to change the shading model from default lit to unlit. So frustrating

@kealanibartley4545 11 месяцев назад

bro it I cant add it to the sky material :(

@NostalgiaFocus 11 месяцев назад

Is there a way to do this in UEFN? I can't find any tutorials for it :(

@CreatorAPD 4 месяца назад

its the same process

@galberger3937 2 года назад

How to show less stars? Is it possible to make the stars to glow a little?

@mattia362 Год назад

yeah you can, you need a mask for the stars though

@samanthaharrison8741 Год назад

Hello, so far so good but i got to the point where you say something about copying skybox default and change mesh to the one we just created. Well I can't change the mesh of the sky box thats already there by default and I can't find actor named sm_skybox. Only Bp_skybox which I can't edit either. Someone below had the same question and the reply was to create a new blueprint and ad static mesh and I have no idea how to do that. Tried looking it up and found another very long tutorial.

@thegreendude2086 Год назад

Adding a static mesh inside a blueprint shouldn't be a long tutorial tbh In the top left there should be a window with all the components in the blueprint, so far it should be empty. In the top left corner there is a + button that lets you add components, just search for static mesh. When you select it, inside the details panel (usually the right window) you can choose which mesh to use and what material. About the things you can't find, I think you need to check a box that allows you to see engine content, not entirely sure where that is though. Hope this helps a bit

@prdvms 4 месяца назад

To do this, I selected the BP sky, there is a mesh inside, select and search for the mesh, drag to the level, delete the bp, then select the dragged and put the material, it should work

@cynerboy Год назад

Can I use Sky Sphere inside the unreal 4.27 for commercial used? Thanks

@thegreendude2086 Год назад

Everything that comes with the engine should be free use If you get rich though you'll have to give a couple % of your income to epic though

@cynerboy Год назад

@@thegreendude2086 Thank you so much 🧡

@thegreendude2086 Год назад

@@cynerboy you're welcome

@worldofonline7316 6 месяцев назад

Hey mates, I repeated the tutorialb but in my case I can see only upper part with my custom sky. All lower part is completely black. How can I fix that? Thatnk you..

@worldofonline7316 6 месяцев назад

Found how: ExponentialHeightFog removed

@RoadHater Год назад

Why is this so difficult for something so simple?

@user-ov9my4rk6m 4 месяца назад

что делать если импортируется как texture cube array

@3ric908 Год назад

😳I've done exactly as you said, and nothing inside, full black (even tested with Starter content UE HDRi).. btw thanks for sharing.

@Lilbig1337 Год назад

I had the same issue and I turned hardware acceleration on in my browser settings before downloading the sky from the generator site, hope this helps

@3ric908 Год назад

@@Lilbig1337 ok thank you, i’ll test next time

@pietlebrun5943 2 года назад

I use HDRI Backdrop, it's more precise than Sky Sphere

@thegreendude2086 Год назад

Sry Matt, but this just isn't holding up to your other tutorials You essentially thought us how to drag n drop an image that's not gonna work as a skybox, because making sure is tiled is part of the problem why people are looking for tutorials

@IanIanaSpencer 3 месяца назад

this method seems to have broken after an update edit: nvm my dumb ass was in world settings...

@tigasm6544 2 года назад

Second

@karenrogregez1670 2 года назад

Day three asking for a rail shooter game tutorial

@guesswho2590 Год назад

"How to create a SKy Spehre" Imma use the custom one from Unreal ... honestly, I hate dislikes are gone.

@THEGUMP- Год назад

there still there idiot

@Itz_shuanlarry Год назад

He literally showed you how in the beggining he use a png to hdr converter

@mrmo4569 27 дней назад

Blud didn't watch the video

@schmoborama 6 месяцев назад

Whaaaaat why not just find an actual HDR 🤦‍♂ HDRs can store 1000's of times more information than PNG but just converting a PNG to HDR does not magically grant you that data. It will the exact same data, just in the HDR format. Like, a sun with an intensity of 1.0 instead of upwards of a 1,000,000.0 if you waned it. PNG converted to HDR will also still have all the hideous banding that you get from 8bpc formats ( jpg, png, etc. ), which are especially visible in space scenes. Free HDRs are all over the web, incl. up to 24,000 x 24,000 resolution