Unreal Engine 4: Realtime Motion Graphics

Speed up your workflow by leveraging the real-time processing power of Unreal Engine 4. Find out how to take static and animated geometry from Maya and C4D and render it in Unreal.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Exercise files

1. Unreal Engine 4 Quick Start

• Using the Epic Games Launcher and creating a new project
• Organizing a UE4 project
• Overview of the UE4 interface
• Coordinates and navigation
• Engine settings
• Importing files
• Creating materials
• Adding a camera to a scene
• Creating keyframes with the Matinee Editor
• Playback and export
• Unit setup in Maya
• Unit setup in C4D

2. Project 1: Daylight Scene with KinetECO Animated and Static Geometry

• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in Maya 2016
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in Maya 2016: Update
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in C4D R17: Update
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in C4D R17
• Creating your UE4 project
• Importing geometry into UE4
• Organizing and laying out your scene in UE4
• Export Maya camera and import into Matinee
• Export C4D camera
• Maya camera import
• C4D camera import
• Creating and assigning materials
• Creating and manipulating lights
• Adding a post-process volume
• Rendering

3. Project 2: Graphic Scene with H Sport Animated Geometry

• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in Maya 2016
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in Maya 2016: Update
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in C4D R17: Update
• Preparing and exporting your geometry as an FBX file in C4D R17
• Creating your UE4 project
• Importing geometry into UE4
• Organizing and laying out your scene in UE4
• Export Maya camera and import into Matinee
• Exporting C4D camera
• Maya camera import
• C4D camera import
• Creating and assigning materials
• Creating and manipulating lights
• Adding atmosphere fog
• Adding a post-process volume
• Rendering

4. Project 3: Working with Matinee Animated Geometry

• Importing geometry into UE4
• Animating an object in Matinee
• Animating a camera in Matinee
• Creating and assigning materials
• Creating and manipulating lights

Conclusion

• Next steps