Course Description
Unreal Engine has been the industry-standard game development platform for decades. This course will cover the basics of Unreal Engine 5 and explore many of the new features of version 5. This course introduces the tools available in the viewport panel, content drawer, details panel, and the world outliner. It will also prepare students to start creating games and/or product simulations for many diverse industries.
These lessons will take you step-by-step through Unreal Engine, learning how to navigate the interface, creating levels, adding actors, working with lighting, and creating physics, including particle simulations and animating and rendering your levels. Along the way, you will learn how to create landscapes, water effects (including oceans, lakes, and rivers), work with level templates, create destructible objects, and create code using the visual scripting language, blueprints. By the end of the course, you should have the knowledge and confidence to begin creating games and product demos on your own.
What You'll Learn
- Create projects and levels, and navigate the Unreal Engine 5 interface
- Enable plugins and content packs, and import assets including 3D models
- Build landscapes, foliage, and water effects such as oceans, lakes, and rivers
- Construct materials using node-based graphs and connected textures, and enhance lighting with Lumen
- Add visual effects with the Niagara particle system and optimize meshes with Nanite
- Code visually with blueprints, animate cameras, and render levels using the level sequence
Key Takeaways
- This course covers the basics of Unreal Engine 5 and explores many of the new features in version 5.
- It introduces the tools in the viewport panel, content drawer, details panel, and world outliner.
- Lessons cover creating landscapes, water effects, destructible objects via mesh fracturing, and visual scripting with blueprints.
- The course teaches lighting and visual quality improvements using Lumen, Niagara particle effects, and Nanite mesh optimization.
- By the end, learners should have the knowledge and confidence to begin creating games and product demos on their own.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is a beginner course that covers the basics of Unreal Engine 5 and prepares students to start creating games and product simulations for many diverse industries.
What will I be able to do after completing this course?
By the end of the course, you should have the knowledge and confidence to begin creating games and product demos on your own.
What topics does the course cover?
It covers navigating the interface, creating levels, adding actors, working with lighting and physics including particle simulations, creating landscapes and water effects, working with level templates, creating destructible objects, animating and rendering levels, and coding with the visual scripting language blueprints.
What Unreal Engine 5 features are taught?
The course teaches Lumen for lighting and light quality, the Niagara particle system for visual effects, Nanite for optimizing large polygon count meshes, mesh fracturing for simulated destruction, and blueprints for visual coding.
Does the course cover both first-person and third-person templates?
Yes, it includes lessons on working with the First-Person Template and the Third-Person Template.
