Unreal Engine 4: For Absolute Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Unreal Engine 4

Lecture 1: Welcome to Unreal Engine 4

Lecture 2: Installing Unreal Engine 4

Lecture 3: Building your first Unreal Engine 4 game

Chapter 2: Intro to Unreal Engine 4 Level Editor

Lecture 1: Unreal Engine 4 editor overview

Lecture 2: Unreal Engine 4 editor mode

Lecture 3: Blocking out an area

Lecture 4: Creating edges and stairs

Lecture 5: Creating simple materials

Lecture 6: Creating rounded walls

Lecture 7: More editing tools and objects

Lecture 8: Preparing to build a bridge

Lecture 9: Creating a bridge with subtractions

Lecture 10: How to extrude geometry

Chapter 3: Intro to Unreal Engine 4 Materials

Lecture 1: Creating simple materials

Lecture 2: Setting textures to materials

Lecture 3: Working with metallics

Lecture 4: Tinting and multiply nodes

Lecture 5: Material texture coordinates

Lecture 6: Instance materials: plastic

Lecture 7: Instance materials: emission

Lecture 8: Creating a dynamic material with Blueprint

Lecture 9: Shooting cubes to change color

Chapter 4: D2D Game: Controls, Characters, Enemies & Guns

Lecture 1: Project creation & setup

Lecture 2: How to copy & paste Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints

Lecture 3: Creating a 3rd person camera

Lecture 4: Creating a GameMode

Lecture 5: Setting up keyboard and controller inputs

Lecture 6: Moving the player forward in Blueprint

Lecture 7: Setting up camera rotation in Blueprint

Lecture 8: Rotations, vectors, and moving characters

Lecture 9: Creating smooth animations with BlendSpace

Lecture 10: Connect player input to animations with AnimationBlueprint

Lecture 11: Attaching weapons to a player

Lecture 12: Creating a gun laser particle system

Lecture 13: Attaching a particle system to a weapon in Blueprint

Lecture 14: Creating bullets through RayCasting

Lecture 15: Creating weapon logic & muzzle flash

Lecture 16: Implementing sound effects in Unreal Engine

Lecture 17: Spawning bullet effects at hit impact

Lecture 18: Enemy artificial intelligence (AI)

Lecture 19: Logic to choose animation blends

Lecture 20: Implementing player health and Blueprint Interfaces

Lecture 21: Raycasting pawns and firing events

Lecture 22: Ragdoll physics for the enemy

Lecture 23: Final Source Code

Lecture 24: Student Exercise

Chapter 5: D2D Game: Game Design, Logic, & Events

Lecture 1: Setup & project creation

Lecture 2: Greyboxing the level

Lecture 3: Game design document & technical overview

Lecture 4: Project Starter Assets & Design Docs

Lecture 5: Optimizing 3D models for mobile

Lecture 6: Weapon pickup events

Lecture 7: Custom animation for weapon/no weapon

Lecture 8: Working with physics and constraints

Lecture 9: Creating logic in Level Blueprints

Lecture 10: Building gameplay and chaining events

Lecture 11: Building a terminal and intro to UI with UMG

Lecture 12: Showing UI based on events

Lecture 13: Creating reusable doors that open

Lecture 14: Blueprint interactions and distance between objects

Lecture 15: Creating health bars

Chapter 6: Dark City Mobile Game

Lecture 1: Dark City project creation

Lecture 2: Setting up Unreal for mobile development

Lecture 3: Implementing touch controls

Lecture 4: Creating custom touch look controls

Lecture 5: Important Unreal Engine 4 mobile resources

Lecture 6: Importing a flashlight model

Lecture 7: Creating and using texture masks

Lecture 8: Creating the flashlight blueprint

Lecture 9: Spawning the flashlight onto the player

Lecture 10: Rotating the flashlight with player rotation

Lecture 11: Creating flashlight cone effects (advanced materials)

Lecture 12: Creating battery UI progress bar

Lecture 13: Object outlines with post processing

Lecture 14: Battery pickup and recharge

Lecture 15: Setting up the enemy character

Lecture 16: Enemy AI Setup: Behavior Tree, AIController, Blackboard

Lecture 17: EQS System and Behavior Tree logic

Lecture 18: Modifying animations and connecting enemy velocity

Chapter 7: Diving Deeper Into Unreal Engine

Lecture 1: How to move actors in UE4 with Blueprint

Lecture 2: Point & click movement with Blueprint

Lecture 3: Re-targeting animations onto 3D character models

Lecture 4: Creating a simple first person shooter

Lecture 5: Creating progress & health bars

Lecture 6: Lighting for mobile games