Unreal Engine 5 (UE5): Complete Beginners Course

*Brand New Lectures Added This Month*:

• Character Movement and Animations From Scratch

• UE5 Metahumans (Creation and Animation)

Welcome to a beginners comprehensive look at the new Unreal Engine 5. UE5 is used by professionals and beginners alike to create stunning real-time content with the help of the new Lumen Lighting System and Nanite Virtualized Geometry Engine. It has never been easier to get started as a Game, Architectural, or Product Developer and create amazing content.

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...

    
    

• Learn how to Import and Animate Characters from Scratch

  • Download Character Meshes and Animations

  • Full Character Setup with Input Keys (Idle, Walk, Run, and Jump)

  • Character Animation Blending

  
  

• Introduction to UE5 Metahumans (Digital Humans)

  • Learn how to use the Metahuman Creator to create amazingly real human characters

  • Basic introduction to Metahuman animation, the Metahuman skeletal rig, and the cinematic sequencer.