2025-1030-2223 UE - Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint Game Development (Updated to 5.6)

1 Welcome to the Course

2 Community & Support

3 Installing Unreal Engine 5

4 Section Intro - Marble Run

5. First Steps in Unreal Engine

• add starter content

6. Viewport Navigation & Transforms

• F - focus
• world / local space

7. Introduction to Blueprints

• new level - basic - Level1
• pawn
  • player can possess and control
• level blueprint
  • print string

8. Referencing Actors in Blueprints

• input - keyboard event
  • consume input will prevent lower priority actions
• reference to the floor
  • W - add actor World Rotation - y -= 5
  • S - add actor World Rotation - y += 5
  • A - add actor World Rotation - x -= 5
  • D - add actor World Rotation - x += 5
• adjust player start

9. Applying Physics to Static Meshes

• add a sphere - call it Ball
  • simulate physics
• set material for ball and floor
• make the teleport toggle = true for add actor world rotation node

10. Tick Event & Input Axis Events

• mouse X

  • add actor world rotation - X

• mouse Y

  • add actor world rotation - -Y

• Tick

  • get mouse x
  • get mouse y x -1

11. Getting & Setting Actor Rotations

• to prevent z value change

  • get actor rotation
  • set actor rotation

• clamp to +- 20

12. Intro to Modeling Mode

• create wall
  • create - box - Floor
    • 1500 x 1500 x 50
    • material
      • cobble
      • uv = .33
      • world space uv scale
  • Model - Polygroup Edit
    • inset
    • extrude - 200
  • Create another box - 200 x 200 x 300
    • Boolean
  • move back to Models folder
• fix uv issue
  • project
• change material for top of wall
  • select - polygroup edit -
    • attribs - edie materials
    • new material - moss
      • change active material
      • assign
• new material for wall
  • brick clay

13. Building Obstacle Objects

• create
  • cylinder
    • show wireframe
    • radius 30
    • height 120
    • radial slices - 25
    • height subdivisions 16
    • material
      • metal
    • select
      • polygroup edit
        • select the first line
          • scale out
          • extrude
            • direction mode - selected triangle normal
            • fixed - 10
        • selection filter
          • side view
          • select very other line
          • extrude
            • fixed
            • distance 8
        • selection filter
          • select edge loops
          • bevel
• create
  • sphere
    • subdivition dype - lat long
    • radius 30
    • delete the bottom part
    • material - concrete
• mesh - union
• XForm - Edit Pivot
• rename
• move to folder
• convert selection to BP_Peg
  • new subclass
• make the map with pegs