Long Term Courses

1- Unreal Engine 5 Foundations – Based on Epic Games Recommended Curriculum

Course Features

• Learning all unreal engine aspects and going through all its important parts & applications

• Get ready to work with unreal engine in different fields and get ready to move to the next level of advanced lessons

• Get used to most of unreal engine tool

Course Duration

50+ hours

Course Chapters

16 Chapter

Training Mode

Online / Offline Assignments

Start Date

Decided by Group Reservation

Course Requirements :

• Having a PC that can run Unreal Engine 5

• Basic Level of English

Version

Unreal Engine 5

Course Results

• Participants can make their own unreal engine projects (beginner skills) in various fields & industries that intersect with unreal engine.
• Ability to make games or applications using unreal engine
• Can Start Study intermediate level topics that need basic understanding for unreal engine

Curriculum Content

01. Course Overview & Getting Started

• Course Summary
• Installing Unreal Engine & Account Setup
• Unreal Engine Overview and Resources
• Editor Interface Overview
• Templates & Creating Your First Project
• View Modes & Navigation Basics

02. Mesh Types, Inputs, Collisions

• Importing Meshes Collisions
• Mesh Editor & Mesh Types
• Greyboxing
• Static Mesh vs. Skeletal Meshes and Other Mesh Import Types
• Brief Blueprint Basics
• View Modes, Snapping, and Hotkeys
• Skydomes
• Lights (Overview) & Rendering Quality
• Rendering & Performance Basics

03. Lighting

• Lighting Overview:
• Science, Optimization & Measurement
• Lighting Design & Terminology
• Setting Up Your Scene to Light
• Light Types
• Use Cases: Static, Stationary & Moveable
• Lights Baking Lighting & Lightmap Resolution
• Real Time Lighting & Shadows
• Lighting Effects: IES / Light Rays / Volumetrics
• External: Sun & Sky Actor Location & Time of Day
• The Road to Real-Time Raytracing

04. Materials

• Materials Overview
• Creating Your First Material
• Shading Models
• Masks Material Expressions
• Textures: Texture Map Types
• Instances & Master Materials
• Material: Parameters & Blueprints
• Non-UV Based Material Tools
• External: Quixel, Substance Designer Workflows
• Profiling & Baking Down

05. Physics: Rigid Simulation

• Physics Content Examples
• Physics Bodies
• Mass
• Gravity
• Physics Forces
• Motors
• Forces
• Constraints
• Physics Volumes
• Collisions & Complexity
• Introduction to Skeletal Physics & Rag Dolls

06. Post-Process Volumes (PPVs)

• Overview
• Content Examples
• PPVs Key Settings
• Lens & Film Effects
• Tone Mapping
• LUTs
• Materials for UI
• Rendering & Stylization
• Visual FX Use Cases & Visual Warping Example

07. Blueprint Basics 01

• Overview
• Content Examples
• Variables
• Debugging
• Print
• Breakpoints
• Blueprint Flow Control
• Blueprints Loops
• Custom Events
• Blueprints: World & Local Space
• Randomization & Arrays
• Optimization

08. Blueprint 02: Object Oriented

• Review & New Content Examples
• Understanding Object Actors & Classes
• Actor Class
• Child Blueprints
• Interactive Door
• Interactive Key
• Cross-Blueprint Communication: Combining the Door and Key
• Line Traces & Physics Handles

09. Large Environments & Open Worlds

• Overview of Landscapes
• Landscape Creation Tools
• Landmass Plug-in
• Sculpting
• Displacement
• Landscape Materials
• Foliage vs Procedural Foliage Tool (Introduced)
• Lakes & Rivers
• Level Streaming
• Sky Dome (Review), Volumetric Cloud Example
• Sky Lighting & Vocabulary: Mie, Rayleigh & Crepuscular Rays
• Review: Geographically Accurate Sun Position Tool
• GIS: Cities & Urban Planning
• Concept and Discussion – Open Worlds (Core Games Example)
• Summary & Resources

10. Skeletal Meshes

• Skeletal Mesh Overview
• Content Examples & Pipeline
• Tools & Terminology
• Socket Manager
• Control Rig (Introduction)
• Skeletal Mesh Overview
• Spline Animation
• Morphs
• Cloth
• Rag Doll Simulations & Secondary Motion
• Character Workflow Overview

11. Audio and AI

• Audio Overview
• Content Examples & Vocabulary
• Ambient & Triggered Audio
• Volume Occlusion & Focus
• Sound Cues
• Audio Cue & Physics
• Summary & Resources
• Overview
• Content Examples
• AI Perception
• Sight
• Sound
• Behavior Trees
• Patrol
• Move to
• Wait
• EQS & ther AI
• Summary & Resources

12. Teamwork Pipelines, SCRUM & Testing

• Overview
• Optimal Habits & Tools
• Communication
• Leadership, Teamwork & Group Process
• Organization, Pipelines & Optimization
• Overview
• Teamwork Project Planning: The Gantt vs. Burndown
• SCRUM Process
• Scope Creep
• Testing, Multi User Editing & Version Control
• Summary & Resources

13. Sequencer & Cinematography

• Sequence Overview
• CineCamera Actors & Optics 101
• Rigs & Track
• Sequencer Interface & Animating
• Creating a Sequence (Basic)
• Material Parameters Collection & Blueprints
• Summary & Resources
• Shots & Takes (Level Master & Subscenes)
• Triggering a Sequence
• Recording & Machinima
• Spawnable Workflow
• Output Video

14. UMG: Unreal Motion Graphics Interfaces

• UMG Core Elements & Basics
• Widgets: Creating & Adding an Interface to Screen
• Displaying & Hiding Mouse
• Adding a Button Events & Property Binding
• Making the Button Work
• UI Design Basics Styling / Visual Control
• Interfaces Inside 3D Space (Diegetic UI for 3D Widgets)
• Intermediate / Advanced Topics (and Resources)
• Summary & Resources

15. Visual Effects Week!

• Overview
• VFX-related Content Examples
• Niagara Particle System Overview
• Chaos Engine with a Focus on Fracture Meshes
• Effects Focus Content Review From Earlier This Semester
• Lighting
• Materials
• Physics
• Introduction to Compositing with Composure
• Combos & Connections (Internal/External)
• Summary & Resources

16. Optimization and Publishing

• Course Overview
• Pre-Publishing Steps
• Adding Pause & Quit Buttons
• Publishing Your Project
• Publishing & Troubleshooting
• Performance & Profiling Basics
• Optimization by Category
• Profiling and Optimization Demo
• Looking Ahead, Unreal Engine Opportunities Across Multiple Disciplines!