I strongly suggest you do Introducing the Unreal Engine

• This course provides a great overview of the complex interface.
• This teaches you how to use the tool.
• This will make you much more efficient in the basic manipulation of the world.

If you want to follow along with the tutorial you need to start a project.

• Unreal engine is slow to start and load.
  • Especially the first time.
  • Be patient at all steps.
• Start the unreal editor.
• Select New Project
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• He is using the Third Person project template.
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• Add a location to store and a project name.
  • Make sure you save it where you can get access to it.
  • More on this later.
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• Click on Create Project

You can tell this is complex.

• They want you to start out with a tour
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Editor Basics

• The editor consists of the following components
  1. The Viewport, or a "preview" area for the game.
     • Also called Level Editor
  2. The World Outliner, a list of items in the world.h
  3. The Details Pannel, information about the curent item you are working on.
  4. The Modes Pannel, place items, change behavior of level editor
  5. The Content Browser, access to the assets you are using.
  6. The Main Toolbar
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• Definately do the video "The Viewport"
• Bookmarks allow you to set a position in the scene and move to it quickly
  • Just press a number key to go to a preset bookmark.
  • Press ctl-1 to set bookmark 1 at the current position.
  • Also available on the dropdown menu
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• Movement
  • Up and down arrows move along current lookat vector.
  • Left and right arrows move along current "right" vector.
  • Left mouse rotates around current "up" vector.
  • Left right rotates around current "right" vector.
  • Click and WASD moves along current lookat vector.
  • Q and E move up and down.
  • To move somewhere quickly
    • Select an object in the World outliner
    • Press f.
    • This focuses on the object.
• Changing Objects.
  • Grab a sphere and throw it ont the secene.
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  • Click on the sphere to bring up the "manipulator widget"
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  • The First box in the upper right controls the action of this widget.
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    • translate, rotate, scale
  • Note, these are also available in the Details panel
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• The World Outliner
  • Allows you to select the itmes in the world
  • You can group them so they are treated as a single item.
  • You can Child one item to another so they are a single unit.
  • You can organize and search the items.
• The Details Pannel
  • This is where you edit the properties of select objects.
  • He shows how to create a new "object" or blueprint out of combined objects.