Unreal Engine 5 (UE5): Complete Beginners Course

Requirements

• No Prerequisites Required

We will take you from Unreal Engine Zero to Hero in just a few hours, covering everything from the general UE5 layout all the way through creating a fully functioning game.

Just a bit of what the course covers:

Introduction to Unreal Engine 5

• Overview of the new UE5 user interface
• How to setup your first project
• Creating your first level
• Adjusting manual exposure and exploring post process volumes

Full Introduction to Materials and Shaders

• How to build materials using the material node editor
• How to create master and instance materials to easily cut down on material efforts

Explore the Unreal Marketplace

• How to use the Unreal Marketplace to score free and paid meshes, materials, functions, and lots more

Unreal Engine Lighting Basics

• A full introduction to different lighting types in UE5
• How to use light map baking to create playable beautiful environments
• An overview on lightmass settings
• How to fix common light map issues

New: Lumen Lighting Engine

• Introduction on how the lumen lighting engine works to create amazing real-time environment lighting
• How to create emissive materials that generate both direct and indirect real-time lighting

New: Nanite Virtualized Geometry

• Introduction to Nanite now allowing million plus poly meshes to be added to your scene without major performance issues
• How to create Nanite assets from existing meshes
• Discussions around Nanite limitation like overdraw and how to overcome these limitations

The Integrated Quixel Bridge (Megascans) Library

• How to get started with the Quixel Bridge and Megascan meshes right from the UE5 interface
• A look at pre-built free Quixel Bridge materials

Importing External Meshes and Assets to Unreal Engine 5

• A walkthrough on how to import FBX files right into UE5
• How to fix possible material issues at import

Complete Introduction to the Blueprint Visualized Scripting Engine

• How to build your very first blueprints and create events in UE5
• More in depth examples of creating your first UE5 blueprints
• How to create and use Blueprint Variables and Functions
• How to build a blueprint health and damage system that updates in realtime

We then build a completely functional game that covers additional concepts like:

• Planning a project
• Setting up a project for the first time
• Sculpting landscapes and terrains
• Painting materials on landscapes
• Creating “auto” materials that paint different materials based on the slope of the terrain
• How to create realistic water bodies like oceans and lakes
• Adding foliage variations (plants, weeds, flowers, trees, etc.) using the UE5 foliage creator
• Importing, rigging, and adding animations to characters
• Creating a on screen HUD (Heads Up Display) overlay that shows real-time progress bars
• Creating blueprint food caches
• Introduction to Unreal’s VFX system Niagra
• How to use the Event Tick and Timed Events in UE5
• And lots more…

Who this course is for:

• Game Design Students
• Product Design Students
• Architectural Design Students

What you’ll learn

• Unreal Engine
• Unreal Engine 5
• Game Design
• Architectural Design
• Product Design