Unreal Engine 5 C++ The Ultimate Game Developer Course

We install the Epic Games Launcher and the latest version of Unreal Engine 5

We look at the Level Editor Viewport and learn how to maneuver throughout the world

We learn how to look at our world in different ways

We learn how to select and manipulate objects in our world

We learn about the Outliner, Details, Content Browser, and Place Actors Panels in the Level Editor

We are challenged to test what we've learned in this section and share it with the community!

We enable Quixel Bridge to access countless free megascans to build a realistic world

We discuss the new Open World feature in Unreal Engine 5 and how it works

We learn about the different types of objects associated with a scene's lighting and atmosphere

We create a landscape and learn how to shape and sculpt it

We learn how to combine multiple surfaces into a single Landscape Material and switch between layers

We paint our landscape using the various layers in our Landscape Material

We learn how to paint foliage onto our landscape

We add more foliage and paint bushes, shrubs and even trees onto the landscape

We create a Post Process Volume to fine-tune the appearance of our scene

We add the finishing touches to the forest, including more grass and rocks, sticks and branches

We learn how to pack geometry into small levels and instance them into the scene

We add mountains and use groups of rocks to create Packed Level Actors

We learn how to instance entire levels and bring in a dungeon from the marketplace into our world

We are challenged to place bookmarks and take high-resolution screenshots of our levels and share them with the community!

We discuss how locations in space can be represented by coordinates

We discuss the mathematical definition of the vector

We look at some game-related examples of vectors

We discuss basic vector operations such as multiplication by a scalar, vector addition, and vector subtraction

We work out some game-related vector operation examples

We learn how to mathematically calculate the length, or magnitude, of a vector

We learn how the formula for a vector's magnitude can be extended to 3 dimensions and work an example

We learn that it's sometimes useful to have vectors with a length of 1, and that these are called normalized vectors

We learn about Yaw, Pitch, and Roll, and how these are rotational values for an object stored in a mathematical construct known as a Rotator

We are challenged to think of a situation where we would need vector operations in game development

We discuss compatible IDEs for Unreal Engine and which one I recommend

We install and set up Visual Studio 2022 and configure it properly for Unreal Engine.

We go over the most important concepts from C++ that we will be taking advantage of in Unreal Engine 5

Unreal Engine uses the concepts of Reflection and Garbage Collection. We learn what those things are and how they work in Unreal Engine

We are challenged to explain a difficult concept from C++ in our own words

We create our first Unreal Engine C++ class and take a look at what it starts out with

We create a Blueprint based on our first Actor

We learn how to print debug messages to the screen from C++

We learn how strings can be formatted using the FString::Printf function

We learn how to draw debug spheres in Blueprint and C++

We learn how to draw debug lines

We learn how to draw debug points

We create a custom header file for our debug macros

We are challenged to look into the other debug functions and see how they work

We learn how to set the location of an Actor in Blueprint and C++

We learn how to set the rotation of an Actor in Blueprint and C++

We learn how to add an offset to our Actor so we can move it with code

We learn the basics of trigonometry and the relationship of the sine function to angles and triangles

We apply the sine function to our Actor to make it rise and sink

We learn about the UPROPERTY macro and specifiers that allow us to expose variables to Blueprint

We learn how to expose variables to the event graph but prevent them from being edited

We now learn how we can expose variables to the Blueprint Event Graph so they can be changed at runtime

We learn about the UFUNCTION macro and how to expose functions and make our sine function callable in Blueprint

We learn about template functions and create one of our own

We learn how to add components to an Actor Blueprint and reassign the Root component

We learn about Default Objects for classes and components and we create a component in C++

We are challenged to make our Item rotate

We create a Bird class based on Pawn

We add a Capsule Component to our Bird class

We learn the importance of forward declaration and what happens when we don't use it

We learn how Skeletal Mesh Components have a Skeleton asset and that they can be animated

We will be converting the project to use Enhanced Input! Please watch the following lecture first, then watch the Enhanced Input lectures outlined in this article.

We learn about Unreal Engine's input system and assign Axis Mappings to keyboard input

Please watch the following lecture first, then watch the Enhanced Input lectures outlined in this article.

We learn how to bind callback functions to our input Axis Mappings

We add Camera and Spring Arm Components to our Bird and about the capabilities of the Spring Arm

We learn about how to add input to the Controller to rotate it and let our Pawn follow its rotation

We learn how to specify which Pawn is used by the Game Mode

We are challenged to fly our Bird throughout our Open World map and take some high resolution screenshots!

We create our first Character class based on ACharacter

We set up movement functions for input

We add the Camera and Spring Arm Components to our Character class

We learn about the Rotation Matrix, a tool we can use to get the forward direction of our Controller

We use the Rotation Matrix in code to get our Controller's forward direction

We use the Groom Component to give Echo hair and eyebrows!

We learn how to change the color of the hair in our Groom Components

We are challenged to customize Echo's hair to our liking, and see if we can find anything else we can customize

We create an Animation Blueprint to drive Echo's poses based on gameplay

We create the C++ class for our Animation Blueprint to be derived from

We implement jumping for Echo

We add jumping animations to our Animation Blueprint

We learn how to use Inverse Kinematics to place Echo's feet correctly when standing on a slope

We are given the challenge to rotate Echo's feet when standing on a slope

We learn about the Collision Presets for components and how they control interactions between components

We learn how to implement Overlap Events in Blueprint before moving into C++