Description
In this course, you will learn:
- 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
- The essential skills you need to build immersive user experiences of all kinds with Unreal Engine 4, including lighting, effects, and visual scripting
- How to optimize the performance for your projects and package projects for distribution.
Syllabus:
- 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
- Keyframing 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