Unreal Engine - Beginner Guide

Explore the Unreal Engine editor basics, including the left panel object types, content browser and modes shortcuts, viewport navigation, object manipulation with w/e/r, and alt+p testing.

Learn to navigate and switch perspective and orthographic views in Unreal Engine by using the perspective tab, maximizing viewports, and precisely placing objects across multiple views.

Navigate Unreal Engine viewport with the mouse, select objects with left button, move with arrows, zoom/orbit/pan with wheel, and undo with Ctrl+Z; focus with F.

Explore the coordinate system in Unreal Engine and the red, blue, and green axes. See object's location in the transform panel, reset to zero, and move along x, y, z.

Explore the three material properties in Unreal Engine: base color using rgba channels with alpha for transparency, metallic amount, and roughness to describe surface texture from glass to chalk.

Learn to create a first material in Unreal Engine by building a material graph, setting base color, metallic, and roughness, and applying it to a mesh.

Load wood texture and normal map from starter content, map RGB to base color, and use the alpha channel with a linear interpolate to control roughness for realistic wood.

Create a simple blockout in Unreal Engine using the first person template, duplicating and scaling floors and walls, aligning tiles, and building lighting for an initial level setup.

Place starter content materials on the box brush, assign inside and outside textures, then use shift w to apply to surfaces, align them planar, adjust lighting, and test.

Add materials to the scene to enrich it, rotate and scale props from starter content, duplicate across the four windows, then save changes and customize the final view.