Repo for DML students learning Unreal Engine 4 in 2015-2016 academic year
In this lessons course we'll cover several UE4 development topics such as
- C++ coding
- Blueprint scripting
- Making animation state machines and controller
- Online multiplayer
- Creating materials and particles
- Making simple cinematics
- and more, more, more...
- Unreal Engine 4 Current version: 4.9.2
- GitHub for team project development and repo sharing
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition UE4 don't support 2015 version! Be careful!
- Also you may need Productivity Power Tools to improve your C++ coding
- Sublime Text 3 It may be useful for little changes and fixes...
- Gimp Also sometimes may be useful
- VLC for more handy youtube and twitch watching
- Livestreamer Command line utility helping to watch Twitch streams in VLC
- Unreal docs and manuals Never ignore it! It'll save your time!
- Unreal Engine Youtube channel contains useful video tuts and records from Twitch channel
- Unreal Engine Twitch channel for live training streams
- Marketplace Asset store were you can pick some awesome assets for money or get free brilliant asset packs from Epic Games
If you're Digital Media Lab 2nd year student, please fill this Google Form to control student attendance on lessons.
But if you're 1st or 3rd year student or you just want to learn UE4 basics I'm going to stream lessons to My Twitch channel. Everybody is welcome. Records will be stored in the same Twitch channel.
Watch them if you missed some lessons
If you have questions about UE4 or this lessons course, please text down your question to my email
with [DML][UE4] letter theme
Also when you've cloned repo, please download and add to that next assets packs:
- Starter Content
- GameTextures Material Pack
Content and Source folders of repo is divided into separate folder: Ready, Lesson, Student
- Ready folder contains assets and files that i'll prepare for lessons
- Lesson folder contains assets and files that i'll make on lessons with students explaining lesson topic
- Student folder is sandbox folder where students exhibit their talent, fantasy and imagination. Please, work only in this folder and don't modify files in other folders. Ready and Lesson folders are just referential.