Unreal Essential Training (2019)

2h 48mBeginner2019-12-10

Authors

Simon Manning

Maker, VR Specialist, Model Shop Director

Course details

Unreal isn’t just for gaming anymore. Industries such as automotive design, architecture, healthcare, and education are embracing the real-time development tools for creating engaging and interactive visuals. Unreal Engine can power it all. In this course, Simon Manning teaches the essential skills you need to build immersive user experiences of all kinds with Unreal Engine 4, including lighting, effects, and visual scripting. He covers creating your first project, building a base landscape, blocking out levels, and importing assets for use in the design. Want to find out how to craft a unique look? Learn about working with materials, post-processing effects, and particle systems in Unreal. Plus, find out how to optimize the performance for your projects and package projects for distribution.

Learning objectives
Exploring the interface and tools
Customizing the Unreal interface
Starting a new blank project
Blocking out the scene
Importing content
Placing and manipulating actors
Optimizing meshes
Lighting a scene
Working with materials
Adding interactivity
Adding post-processing effects
Adding foliage and particle effects
Creating cinematics
Packaging a game for distribution

Skills covered

Unreal EngineEpicAugmented RealityRenderingMotion Graphics and VFX3D ModelingVisualization and Real-TimeEssential TrainingAECProduct and ManufacturingAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Real-time visualization with Unreal Engine 4
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Engine Overview

04 - The Epic Launcher
05 - Installing Unreal Engine
06 - Starting a blank project
07 - Menu
08 - Viewport
09 - Navigation
10 - Content Browser
11 - Modes panel
12 - World Outliner
13 - Toolbar
14 - Details panel
15 - World Settings panel
16 - Customizing the user interface (UI)

2. Starting a New Project

17 - Opening the Unreal Editor
18 - Add new feature and content packages
19 - Level setup
20 - Placing and manipulating actors
21 - Geometry Edit mode
22 - Blocking out the scene
23 - Exporting blocking

3. Meshes

24 - Importing and migrating content
25 - Static Mesh Editor - collision, UVs, etc.
26 - Animating with skeletal meshes
27 - Mesh optimizing

4. Lighting

28 - Basic light types
29 - Environmental lighting
30 - Placing lights in the scene
31 - Static lighting
32 - Reflection capture probes

5. Materials

33 - Material Editor
34 - Material properties
35 - Material instances
36 - Organizing material parameters
37 - Decals

6. Interactivity

38 - Adding a player character
39 - Material swapping
40 - Trigger volumes
41 - Physics simulation
42 - Moving actors with Blueprints

7. Look Development

43 - Landscape mode
44 - Animated entourage
45 - Foliage mode
46 - Particles
47 - Post process effects

8. Cinematics

48 - Introduction to Sequencer
49 - The Cinematic Editor
50 - Key framing and actor recording
51 - Advanced camera tools using rails
52 - Shot tracks - Editing it all together
53 - Exporting a cinematic

9. Packaging a Build

54 - Packaging overview
55 - Playtest
56 - Project settings before packaging
57 - Using Visual Studio to package for distribution

Conclusion

58 - Next steps