Unreal Engine - Live Online Training

If you would like to have a comprehensive tour of Unreal Engine right from the start, then this is the introductory course for you. 

• How to Install Unreal Engine
• The Epic Games Launcher
• Documentation and training resources
• Explore the Unreal Interface, windows and user environment
• Viewports
• Transformations, units and measurements in Unreal Engine
• Navigation and Basic Usage of the editors
• FBX Interoperability
• Mesh triangle counts
• Clean mesh construction
• Collisions
• LODs - Level of Detail
• LightMap Uvs
• Static vs Skeletal Meshes
• Naming Conventions

 

• Unreal Engine PBR workflo
• Textures guidelines
• MipMapping
• Texture Packing
• Material Editor
• Creation of basic Materials
• Applying Materials to Meshes
• Static vs RealTime Lighting
• LightMass
• Light Types
• Controlling light 
• Properties
• Light Mobility
• Lightmaps

In this course - the first part will be introducing the short course with a view of the project files and an explanation of the content that will be covered. The 2nd part will look to finish off the scene with animated materials and a little interaction. We’ll take a look at some of the more advanced nodes to create our VFX materials.

Introduction to Unreals Material pipeline

First look at Unreals powerful material editor

• Shortcuts
• Navigation

Introduction to PBR texturing 

• Metal/Rough workflow
• General rules

Creating a Master material with exposed parameters

• Creating a tiling master material to begin texturing our scenes

Creating a Deffered decals material

• Build a decals material to add unique details and interest to our environment

Creating translucent materials

• Build a glass material for our screen
• View shader costs

Masking materials and blending together

• Using Lerp nodes and masks

Creating animated materials 

• Creating animated materials with panners
• Using emissive 

Creating dynamic materials which players can interact with through blueprints

• Quick view into blueprints and create a dynamic blueprint actor

Creating and using Material functions

In this class, you will learn the basics of the Niagara interface and file hierarchy as well as creating our first Sprite based particles. You will learn how to push our effect with Mesh and GPU particles, as well as Particle Lights. Finally we will touch on Sequencer to see how we can further animate our Particles. 

Niagra UI and Emitter/System hierachy explained

• Breaking down the difference between Spawn and Update

Building our first Particle Material

• Using Particle Colour to control our sprites
• Covering the basic modules (Location, Velocity, Colour over Life etc.)

Building our first Sprite based components

• Adding Randomness with Uniform Distributions 
• Adding Randomness with Flipbook Textures 

 

Adding Mesh Particles and GPU particles to the Effect

• Building the specific Materials required for Mesh and GPU
• Dynamic Parameters and Particle Random

Converting the Effect from a Looping system to a Burst 

Animating and Triggering the Burst system with Sequencer

Local vs Global particles