Unreal Engine 5: Learn Blueprints Through Multiple Projects

Enhance your Unreal skills and learn about Character Animations, Blueprints, Portals, Niagara Effects and more!

Created byViktor Sarafraz

Last updated 12/2024

English

What you'll learn

A lot of Blueprints as the entire course is using Blueprints Only
Downloading and migrating assets for your projects
Create character animation blueprints, setup animation states as well as animation logic. We'll also cover how animation montages and aim offsets work.
Create a fun rolling-ball game, in this project you will learn about actors and how to create them. We'll also build our level including a points system.
Create a portal system that can be spawned and used to Teleport. You will also learn how to create portal effects using the Niagara System.
Camera & Input controls

Course content

5 sections • 45 lectures • 12h 18m total length

Introduction2:16

Project Creation7:53
Assets14:00
Add assets from the asset store and migrate a ball blueprint from a template project to your Unreal Engine 5 project, organizing them into an assets folder.
Import Project Assets5:37
Input Actions20:19
Camera Controls13:52
Reset Camera View9:36
Reset the camera to the default view by adding an action binding named reset camera bound to the R key to set the spring arm’s world rotation to -45.
The Portal Actor17:12
Fnishing The Portal12:16
Jump Portal - Part 114:22
Jump Portal - Part 27:49
Player HUD16:31
Create a player HUD in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints, with a widget showing retries and score anchored at the top left, added to the viewport.
Updating the HUD: Score & Retries15:36
Star & Bomb Pickups20:23
Finishing the Bomb18:40
Bomb Spark Effect5:56
Learn to add a spark effect to a bomb in Unreal Engine 5 using Cascade particle system, disable simulate physics, and adjust spark scale for a realistic explosion when touched.
The Game Instance20:44
Respawning24:32
Virtual Camera19:11
Create a virtual camera in Unreal Engine 5 and render what it sees to a render target texture. Use this image in the HUD to show the ball count.
Main Menu16:29
Build Level 122:58
Improving The Ball Respawn8:28
Test your knowledege

Assets & Project Creation12:56
Animation Blueprint22:59
Character Input17:47
Character Mouse Input11:00
Add mouse look input in Unreal Engine 5 blueprints by creating a 2d axis input, wiring yaw and pitch rotations, using the controller and spring arm, and implementing jump action.
Blend Spaces22:45
Aim Offsets35:26
Montages32:06
Create and test an animation montage from scratch, override running animations with a montage, and add sounds, sections, slots, and layered per-bone blending.
Creating Additive Aniamtions(Aim Offsets)29:48
Test your knowledege

Project Setup7:37
Set up your Unreal Engine 5 project with the first person blueprint template, organize folders for blueprints and assets, import a portals image, and explore Niagara-based portal effects for teleportation.
Relative Location Vs World14:00
Portal Actor - Part 1 - Getting Started16:28
Create a portals actor blueprint in unreal engine 5, add two scene components, a box collision and a 2d capture component, and prepare the portal material and render target texture.
Portal Actor - Part 2 - Material & RTT Creation8:04
Portal Actor - Part 3 - Material Implementation26:29
Portal Actor - Part 4 - A Second Portal Material14:10
Portal Actor - Part 5 - Seeing through portal clearly3:51
Portal Logic - Part 1 - Looking At Player25:37
Create and hook an update cameras blueprint function to the tick event, align P1 and P2 capture components to their reflections, and implement look at rotation for realistic portal mirroring.
Portal Logic - Part 2 - Field of View Mapping to Distance13:21
Portal Logic - Part 3 - Overlap Events25:34
Portal Logic - Part 4 - Testing to jump & Code improvements13:48
Spawning Portal31:43
Niagara Portal34:05
Final Fixes3:25
Test your knowledege

Requirements

Basic understanding of Unreal Engine is required and some experience with Blueprints

Description

In this Unreal Engine 5 course, you'll learn Blueprints by making three different projects.
Two of the projects are at a beginner level while the third one is a bit more intermediate level.

In the first project, called Ball Roll, we'll create a fun ball-rolling game. You gain points by pickups and must make sure to reach the goal to complete the level.

In the second project, Revenant Character, we will download a character from the market place, animate him and test the character in our project. You will learn how to setup a basic Animation Blueprint and configure the different animations for your character.

For the third project, Portals, we'll create a portal system, allowing the player to spawn portals and teleport through them, similar to the game portals.

Ball Roll: Beginner Level

In this project, we'll create a fun "ball-rolling" game. You will learn about actors, asset migration, blueprints, game modes and much more. We'll finally also build a fun testing level.

- Learn about Game Modes
- Create a simple points system
- Learn about how to use the HUD & Widgets
- Learn to migrate assets from one project to another
- Learn about the Camera & Controls
- Create fun levels using actors we'll create, such as "Jump Pad" and "Portal".
- Learn to use assets we will import from the market place for building up our levels.
- Build fun level, and use this as a basic project to build the rest for yourself if needed.

Revenant Character: Beginner Level
In this project, we'll download the Revenant character from the market place.
We will then create animations for him and test it in our level.

You will learn about:
- Montages
- Blend Spaces
- Animation Blueprints
- Aim Offsets
- Event Graph vs Animation Blueprint

Portals: Intermediate Level
In this project, we will create a Portal system to spawn portals which you can go through and pop out from the other side.

- Learn about how to create a portal system
- Learn about materials and material instances
- Create a portal actor which will be spawned in the level
- Learn to use an existing template (FPS) and change it to help us quickly prototype our game.
- Learn to create portal effects using Niagara.

Who this course is for:

All levels welcome, but mainly intended for beginner developers already having some expereince with Unreal Engine and Blueprints.

Unreal Engine 5: Learn Blueprints Through Multiple Projects

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 2min

Rolling Ball - Beginner level21 lectures • 5hr 12min

Revenant Character - Beginner Level8 lectures • 3hr 5min

Portals - Intermediate14 lectures • 3hr 58min

What is next?1 lecture • 1min

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