Unreal Engine 4: Create Your Own First-Person Shooter

In this game design course, I’ll guide you through the process of making a first-person shooter game! This course uses Unreal Engine 4 — the same game engine AAA games development studios used to make Fortnite, Batman Arkham Knight, Borderlands, and many others!

This class contains 38 video lessons that will walk you step-by-step through the following topics:

• How to create 6 customizable weapons (includes pistol, assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, grenade launcher, and rocket launcher)
• How to make hit scan and projectile based weapons
• How to animate a first-person character
• How to script complex reloading and shooting systems
• How to spawn dynamic impact effects
• How to damage enemy characters based on specific body parts
• How to create interactable ammo pick up objects
• How to construct a player HUD using Widgets
• How to add realistic particle and sound effects to a game
• And much more!

With the knowledge you’ll acquire in this class, you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of first-person shooter mechanics. This knowledge applies to all kinds of genres, such as looter, survival horror, military, sci-fi, and others, allowing you to take this project in an endless number of directions! While anyone is welcome to take this course, I recommend it for those with at least some coding knowledge or experience using Unreal Engine 4. While my lessons are thorough, I do not take the time in this course to explain the absolute basics of coding and Unreal Engine 4. If you are completely new, I recommend you take my course on Third-Person Action Adventure games first.

• Course Trailer
• Introduction & Project Overview
• Download & Install
• Setting Up Our Project
• Making Our Character Move
• Adding Content Packs
• Creating the First Person Character
• Animating Our Character
• Equipping Our Loadout (Part 1)
• Equipping Our Loadout (Part 2)
• Creating Weapon Pick Ups
• Making Our Own Weapon Animations
• Switching Between Weapons Animation
• Dynamic Crosshairs
• Creating the Main HUD
• Sprinting Functionality
• Adding Sprinting Animations
• Making Ammo Pick Ups
• Shooting Hit Scan Weapons
• Reloading Functionality (Part 1)
• Reloading Functionality (Part 2)
• Reloading Weapon Animation
• Shooting the Pistol
• Adding Realistic Recoil
• Shooting the Assault Rifle
• Shooting the Shotgun
• Creating Impact Effects
• Damaging Enemies
• Aiming Down Sights
• ADS Camera Zoom
• Adding Hit Markers
• Adding Damage Numbers
• Enemy Defeated Animation
• Shooting Projectiles (Part 1)
• Shooting Projectiles (Part 2)
• Shooting the Sniper Rifle
• Making Things Go BOOM (Explosions!)
• Shooting the Grenade and Rocket Launcher (Final)