Unreal Engine 4: For Absolute Beginners

Learn Unreal editor basics by creating a first level from scratch, navigating with mouse and keys, placing and deleting objects, and using the details panel and grid to align geometry.

Learn to create a bridge in Unreal Engine by using a cylinder with more sides, applying a black material, and carving a tunnel with the subtract brush for precise alignment.

Learn to craft metallic materials in Unreal Engine by applying rust or copper textures, adjusting roughness and the normal map details for a believable metal look.

Learn to tile textures in Unreal Engine by adjusting texture coordinates, tiling values, and normal maps; apply floor materials with base color and roughness while understanding UV coordinates.

Learn to use instance materials to add controllable emission by introducing a per-parameter vector for emission color and intensity, grouping related parameters, and applying a glow to selected objects.

Learn to use Unreal Engine 4 blueprints to change a cube’s color when hit by a collider by exposing a dynamic material and updating a vector parameter with random color.

Bind input mappings to move forward and right, and feed axis values into AD movement to drive the player along the world x and y axes.

Learn to move a character in the camera's facing direction by using the world rotation, forward and right vectors, and blueprint tools in Unreal Engine 4.

Create a gun laser particle system in Unreal Engine 4 for beginners. Design a textured laser beam material and a beam data emitter for an on-screen reticle.

Use a line trace by channel to hit enemies through visibility channel, adjust collision to block hits, and trigger on receive damage to destroy the actor when health is zero.

Learn greyboxing a level in Unreal Engine 4 by blocking out rooms with geometry, using grid snaps, and testing with a player start.

Explore Unreal Engine 4 weapon pickup events with blueprints, detect overlaps, spawn weapon pickups, and play a location sound before destroying the actor.

Learn to create level blueprint logic that triggers a weapon pickup event, uses an event dispatcher to notify the level, and sequentially drop dummies with physics to drive a tutorial.

Learn to build terminal in Unreal Engine 4 using blueprint actor and static mesh, add box collision, and display a player tip UMG widget saying activate terminal to open doors.

Learn to create an in-game health bar using a health widget and a progress bar in Unreal Engine 4, update health percent on damage, and attach it to enemies.

Spawn a flashlight actor at begin play, attach it to the flash socket, and configure its relative transform while ensuring no collision and proper visibility.

Create a foggy flashlight cone using a translucent material in Unreal Engine 4, animate cloud textures via red/green channels, apply depth fade and edge falloff for a first-person beam.

Create a battery UI progress bar in Unreal Engine 4 using widget blueprints, display a HUD battery icon that drains over time and updates in real time.

Learn how to retarget animations from Infinity Blade characters to a robo model in Unreal Engine 4, using retarget manager, humanoid rig, and animation blueprint techniques.

Learn to create progress bars and health bars in Unreal Engine using a widget blueprint, bind them to a game HUD, and update the percent as bullets are fired.