Unreal Essential Training (2019)

Introduction

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

1. Engine Overview

• The Epic Launcher
• Installing Unreal Engine
• Starting a blank project
• Menu
• Viewport
• Navigation
• Content Browser
• Modes panel
• World Outliner
• Toolbar
• Details panel
• World Settings panel
• Customizing the user interface (UI)

2. Starting a New Project

• Opening the Unreal Editor
• Add new feature and content packages
• Level setup
• Placing and manipulating actors
• Geometry Edit mode
• Blocking out the scene
• Exporting blocking

3. Meshes

• Importing and migrating content
• Static Mesh Editor: collision, UVs, etc.
• Animating with skeletal meshes
• Mesh optimizing

4. Lighting

• Basic light types
• Environmental lighting
• Placing lights in the scene
• Static lighting
• Reflection capture probes

5. Materials

• Material Editor
• Material properties
• Material instances
• Organizing material parameters
• Decals

6. Interactivity

• Adding a player character
• Material swapping
• Trigger volumes
• Physics simulation
• Moving actors with Blueprints

7. Look Development

• Landscape mode
• Animated entourage
• Foliage mode
• Particles
• Post process effects

8. Cinematics

• Introduction to Sequencer
• The Cinematic Editor
• Key framing and actor recording
• Advanced camera tools using rails
• Shot tracks: Editing it all together
• Exporting a cinematic

9. Packaging a Build

• Packaging overview
• Playtest
• Project settings before packaging
• Using Visual Studio to package for distribution

Conclusion

• Next steps