Advanced Unreal Engine 5 Multiplayer Gameplay Programming

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Prerequisites

Lecture 1: Visual Studio and Unreal Engine 5

Lecture 2: Creating the Project

Chapter 2: Ability System Overview (Theory)

Lecture 1: Why use Ability System?

Lecture 2: AbilitySystemComponent

Lecture 3: Gameplay Ability

Lecture 4: Ability Tasks

Lecture 5: Gameplay Tags

Lecture 6: Gameplay Attributes

Lecture 7: Gameplay Effects

Lecture 8: Gameplay Cues

Lecture 9: Gameplay Events

Chapter 3: Setting Up

Lecture 1: GAS Plugin, Ability, Ability System Component, Attribute Set, Character

Lecture 2: Character Defaults, Ability System Debug

Lecture 3: Character Data, Character Data Asset

Chapter 4: Movement Essentials

Lecture 1: Movement Component, Movement Attributes

Lecture 2: Locomotion Blendspace, Movement Debug

Lecture 3: Animation Instance, Animation Data, Animation Data Asset

Lecture 4: Advanced physical materials

Lecture 5: Footsteps Component, Step Anim Notify

Lecture 6: Enhanced Input

Chapter 5: Movement Abilities

Lecture 1: Jump Ability

Lecture 2: Base Ability

Lecture 3: Crouch Ability

Lecture 4: Sprint Ability (Attributes)

Lecture 5: Vault (Motion Warping) – Theory

Lecture 6: Vault (Motion Warping) – Implementation

Lecture 7: Wall Run Ability (Ability Tasks)

Lecture 8: Ability Relations with Gameplay Tags

Chapter 6: Replicated Inventory (Part I) & Interactions

Lecture 1: Inventory Architecture – Theory

Lecture 2: Item Static Data (UClass CDO approach), Action Game Statics

Lecture 3: Item Entry, Item List, Item Instance

Lecture 4: Inventory Component

Lecture 5: Item Actor, Equipping Item, Dropping Item

Lecture 6: Finalizing Inventory, Better Inventory Tag Management

Lecture 7: Item Animation Overrides

Chapter 7: Combat & Inventory Part II

Lecture 1: WeaponStaticData, Weapon Item Actor, Item Abilities

Lecture 2: Single Shot Ability, Inventory Ability, Gameplay Event Notify

Lecture 3: Item Effects, Strafe Movement

Lecture 4: Automatic Shooting Ability

Lecture 5: Data-Driven Damage Effect

Lecture 6: Weapon Effects & Hit Impacts

Lecture 7: Server-Side Targeting, Aiming Ability, Camera Modifier

Lecture 8: Death & Respawn

Lecture 9: Projectile, Projectile Shooting Ability, Radial Damage

Chapter 8: Environment

Lecture 1: Ability System Physics Volume

Lecture 2: Campfire (Different Burning Effects, Static & Actor Based Gameplay Cues)

Chapter 9: Bonus

Lecture 1: Upgrading to 5.1.1.

Lecture 2: Ammunition Inventory Item, Inventory Tags

Lecture 3: ~5.3 Compilation Fix