02 Exploring Create Menu Options in Modeling mode of Unreal Engine 5.6

Unreal Engine 5.6 Official Release

• 5.6 moved from preview to official release.

• Must install with:

  • Starter Content

  • Templates

  • Engine Source

  • MetaHuman Core Data

• Optional to skip debug symbols to save space.

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🔹 Continuing from Previous Session

• Reopened modeling_practice level.

• Ensured models are saved to My_Created_Models folder (updated project settings).

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🔹 Modeling Tools – “Create” Menu Exploration

🧱 Box

• Can set width, depth, height in cm.

• Subdivision affects mesh smoothness (more subdivisions = more polygons).

• Wireframe view helps visualize subdivisions.

• More subdivisions = smoother deformation but heavier GPU load.

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⚪ Sphere

• Static, Dynamic, or Volume types.

• Subdivision types:

  • Box: Uniform mesh.

  • Latitude/Longitude: Poles form triads (less uniform).

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🥫 Cylinder

• Radius, height, radial slices (define circular smoothness), and height subdivisions.

• Radial slice = number of circular segments.

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🧢 Capsule

• Cylinder with hemispherical ends.

• Adjustable:

  • Radius

  • Cylinder length

  • Hemisphere slices

  • Cylinder subdivisions

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🔺 Cone

• Adjustable radius, height, and segment detail.

• Used for simple pointed shapes.

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🍩 Torus

• Donut-shaped geometry.

• Control:

  • Major radius (overall size)

  • Minor radius (ring thickness)

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➡️ Arrow

• Customize shaft and head dimensions, radial segments, and slice count.

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📏 Rectangle, Disc, and Polygon Shapes

• Rectangles: Width, height, subdivisions.

• Disc: Change radial slice to convert to triangle, square, hexagon, etc.

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🪜 Stairs

• Types: Linear, Floating, Curved, Spiral.

• Adjustable step count, dimensions, curve radius, and angle.

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🧱 Cube Grid Tool

• Used to build structures like gates by snapping 3D blocks.

• Press E to extrude up, Q to inset or carve, Z to enable vertex edit.

• Shift+E moves extrusions without connecting.

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📏 Extrude Polygon Tool

• Modes: Freehand, Circle, Square, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ring.

• Create 2D shape → Extrude into 3D geometry.

• Example: custom building base, ring shapes.

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🛤️ Extrude Path Tool

• Draw 2D paths and extrude into 3D forms (like beams, trims).

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🌀 Revolve Path Tool

• Draw shape and revolve around an axis.

• Create vases, pillars, cylindrical decorative elements.

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🎢 Draw Spline + Mesh/Revolve

• Draw spline in 2D.

• Use Revolve Spline for radial extrusion (lofting).

• Use Mesh Spline to convert closed splines into mesh geometry.

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🔚 Conclusion

• All Create tools in the Modeling Mode explored.

• Next session will cover:

  • Transform (XForm)

  • Deform (DForm) tools to modify created shapes.