Unreal Engine 4 C++ The Ultimate Shooter Course

Master Unreal Engine 4 by Creating a Complete Shooter Game!

What you'll learn:

• Learn Unreal Engine game development by creating a complete shooter game.
• Get in-depth experience with Unreal Engine Animation, Materials, Special Effects, and gameplay!
• Learn Unreal Engine's code base.
• Learn how to use Unreal Engine 4 to create an action-based shooter game!

Please note that this course in done in Unreal Engine 4 and not in Unreal Engine 5.

This is the most comprehensive Unreal Engine tutorial series on the internet. You will create a shooter game complete with AAAquality gameplay mechanics. Learn the theory behind the gameplay mechanics of shooter games, then implement them in this beautiful game project. Topics covered are:

• Character creation and movement

• Input for PC and console controllers

• Extensive use of Animation Blueprints (and Anim Instances, their C++parents)

• 1D and 2DBlendspaces

• Strafing

• Turn-in-place

• Aim Offsets

• Inverse Kinematics

• Animation Curves

• Character lean when running

• Crouching (with dynamic capsule resizing)

• Turn hips while running

• Weapon fire with recoil animations

• Reloading

• Weapon blast and impact particles

• Weapon beam particles (smoke trails)

• Bullet shell eject particles

• Sound effects

• Blending animations per bone, by bool, and by enum - play one animation with one part of the body (running or crouching) while simultaneously playing another animation with another part of the body (reload, aim, or weapon fire)

• Attach and equip different weapons (pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles)

• Automatic and semi-automatic gunfire

• Move different gun parts (the clip/magazine, and pistol slide) during animations

• Camera zoom while aiming

• Dynamic crosshairs that spread in reaction to:

  • Character speed

  • Weapon fire

  • Aiming

  • Jumping

• Different crosshairs per weapon

• Widget components, showing:

  • Item names

  • Item types

  • Ammo counts

  • Item rarity

• HUD animations

• Full item inventory system

• Data tables, in Blueprints and C++

• Curves to control:

  • Item movement during pickup

  • Color and brightness pulse for material effects

• Material creation, including:

  • Post-process materials

  • Dynamic material instances

  • Setting material properties from C++

  • Driving material properties with curves

  • Material functions

  • Blending materials together

  • Outline effects

  • Glow/pulse effects

• Retargeting animations

• Retargeting whole Animation Blueprints

• Numerous gameplay algorithms

• Use of data structures, including:

  • structs

  • enums

  • arrays

  • maps

  • and more

• Animation montages

• Anim Notifies for sounds, weapon trails, and custom notifies

• Sync markers for footsteps and sync groups

• The course comes with a huge amount of assets, including:

  • Sounds

  • Textures

  • Particle effects

  • Meshes

• Delegates

• Interfaces

• Dynamic footsteps that spawn different sounds and particle systems depending on the surface type

• Physical materials and surface types

• Niagra particle systems

• Line traces

• Enemy AI

• Behavior Trees and Blackboard Components

• Multiple enemy types with varying levels of Health, Damage, Size and Movement Speed

• Headshot damage, with:

  • Higher damage for headshots

  • Number widgets that pop up and animate with bullet hits

  • Different colored numbers for headshots

• Character and enemy health bars

• Enemy patrol, agro, chase and attack player

• Death mechanics

• Stun mechanics

• Melee attacks with melee weapon trails

• Explosives that cause damage and death

• Level prototyping

• Creating full levels based on our prototypes using professional assets

• Light baking

• Post-process effects