Year of issue : 2019
Manufacturer : Specialist
Manufacturer’s website : www.specialist.ru/course/unreal
Author : Epov Dmitry Andreevich
Duration : 17 hours 40 minutes
Distribution Type : Video Tutorial
Language : Russian
Description : Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:
navigate the Unreal Engine interface;
transfer objects and scenes from 3ds max with materials, lighting and animation to Unreal Engine;
manage objects in Unreal Engine;
create various objects in the Unreal Engine;
work with libraries of Unreal Engine objects;
create and edit materials in the Unreal Engine;
set your own lighting and edit transferred from 3ds max;
adjust the movement of the camera from the first person and along a predetermined path;
set up movement in virtual reality;
display the final product in the form of a series of images or a video;
display the final product as an interactive project with or without VR support

Content

Module 1. Basics of working with Unreal Engine. Project interface and file structure.

• Epic Games launcher interface. Launching the Unreal Engine and accessing libraries.
• Creation of a project in Unreal Engine based on a project template.
• Exploring the Unreal Engine interface.
• Creation of standard objects and operations with them.
• Assigning materials to objects.
• Adding light sources.
• Adding library models.
• Calculation of global illumination.
  Module 2. Setting up light and materials.
  
• Transferring objects from 3ds max to Unreal Engine either one by one or the entire scene at the same time.
• Editing materials and lighting, ported to the Unreal Engine project.
• Changing the parameters of shooting cameras and exposure.
• Installation of additional lighting and adding lighting effects.
• Setting the rendering of global illumination.
• Creation of your own materials in the Unreal Engine.
• Management of the main components of materials.
• The concept of Instance-materials, optimization of copying and editing of materials.
  Module 3. Video output and first-person control. Creation of an interactive project.
• Explore the Sequencer tool.
• Output of a series of still images.
• Video output.
• Configuring parameters in the first-person movement mode.
• Setting up collisions with objects.
• The concept of simple and complex collisions.
• Output of an interactive project as an executable file for MS Windows.
  Module 4. Virtual reality tools.
  
• Study of the capabilities of modern VR tools.
• Connecting a VR headset to a PC.
• Setting up movement in VR mode: normal movement and teleportation.
• Project output in virtual reality mode.
  Module 5. Programming simple interactive interactions.
• Learning the basics of the visual programming language Blueprints.
• Methods for accessing the state of objects and light sources.
• Methods for tracking user actions.
• Creation of scripts to change lighting and materials.
• Creation of scripts affecting the behavior of objects.
• Output of an interactive project with the ability of the user to influence objects and lighting.