Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Crash Course

On July 13, 2021

Release date:2021, June 8

Author:Caleb Peffer

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Have you ever dreamt of creating your own limitless world? How about your own game, movie set, or dream home?

Unreal Engine 5 is the most powerful tool for building digital worlds that we have ever seen. It is poised to revolutionize the game film, art industries – and getting started has never been easier.

Right now, you have the power to unleash your creativity while learning invaluable professional skills – and we’re here to help you start.

With this crash course, you will learn all the fundamentals of Unreal Engine 5 through intuitive explanations, interactive exercises, and supplementary materials. We will guide you through building your first 3D scene, video game, starting you on your path to building the digital worlds of your dreams.

Don’t miss your opportunity to get in early.

The Unreal Engine 5: Beginner Crash Course is designed to teach you all the basics of Unreal Engine 5, allowing you to explore and build worlds with your creativity. This course will teach you about materials, static meshes, lighting, Quixel tools, Nanite, animations, cutscenes, UI screens, game flow logic, blueprints – and much more.

Get ready to start your journey in an endless world with the power of Unreal Engine 5!

Enroll now!

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01 Getting Started
001 Creating your First Project and UI Basics

02 Basics of Unreal
001 Basic materials
002 Textures
003 Material parameters and texture size
004 Introduction to static meshes
005 Lumen and the basics of lighting
006 Introduction to blueprints

03 Landscape001 Lighting an empty level
002 Sculpting the terrain
003 Landscape materials – Painting terrain
004 Foliage tool – Adding vegetation to the terrain
005 Bonus – Roads

04 Levels
001 Moving between levels
002 Level transitions based on triggers

05 Cinematics
001 Creating a cutscene (World)
002 Autoplay in blueprints
003 UI animation
004 Finishing the cutscene

06 Creating your first minigame
001 Creating the level
002 Making the lava material
003 UI animations
004 Creating the platforms
005 Connecting game mechanics
006 Finishing the game

07 Creating a plane game
001 Intro
002 Key bindings and actor setup
003 Calculating thrust and forward velocity
004 Calculating gravity
005 Do a barrel roll_ controlling movement the x, y, and roll axes
006 Adding simple sounds
007 Adding jet boosters to the plane
008 Creating point rings
009 Dont Crash! Adding collision and a death state
010 Cleaning up and wrapping up