Unreal Engine 5 Essential Training

Learn how to use Unreal Engine, a real-time rendering engine, with animator and artist George Maestri.

Introduction

• Create powerful real-time 3D with Unreal Engine 5
• Using the exercise files

1. Unreal Engine Overview

• The Epic Launcher
• Creating a project
• The Unreal Engine interface
• Navigation
• Configuring viewports
• Organization in the Content Browser
• Customizing Unreal Engine

2. Manipulating the Level

• Working with levels
• Selecting objects
• Outliner and organization
• Manipulating objects
• Working with pivots
• Duplicating objects

3. Importing Assets

• Importing assets with FBX
• Import assets into level
• Working with Datasmith
• Importing USD assets

4. Working with Meshes

• Using the Static Mesh Editor
• Optimization and LODs
• Using Nanite
• Skeletal meshes
• Modeling tools

5. Materials

• Applying materials
• Editing materials and instances
• Creating materials
• Editing material nodes
• Transparency effects
• Control parameters and instances

6. Enhancing the Scene

• Creating landscapes
• Adding foliage
• Quixel assets
• Features and content packs

7. Lighting and Rendering

• Environmental lighting
• HDRI lighting and environments
• Additional light types
• Volumes and post-processing
• Controlling render features
• Atmospheric effects

8. Interactivity

• Adding a player
• Adding a blueprint character
• Variant Manager to swap elements
• Trigger volumes to start animation

9. Cinematics

• Cinematic cameras
• Using Sequencer to animate cameras
• Exporting cinematics

Conclusion

• Next steps