Notes

• Getting Started
  • Intro to Unreal
  • Unreal Online Learning Notes
• Welcome to the Unreal Engine (Notes to go with homework2)
  • A quick tour
  • On Migrating Homework
• Gaining Proficency
  • Some Notes on Unreal.
  • Starting with Blueprints
  • An Example
  • Code for the Example
• Some A Simple Game
  • An Idea
  • Building a Transporter
  • Building a Better Selector
  • Adding a bit of structure
  • Reading a config file
  • Storing data in the game instance
• Some More Blueprint Nodes
  • A Levitator
  • A control pannel
• Event Dispatchers.
• A spawner.
  • The Framework, (Pickups)
  • A Spawner
• A Factory
  • Introduction
  • A Data Driven Factory
• Schedule for the rest of the semester.
• AI
  • An intro to Navigation Meshes
  • Behavior Trees
  • EQS
• Streaming Levels
  • Intro
• Rebecca's Presentation on GIT
  • The Presentation
  • PDF notes
  • PowerPoint notes
• Converting Blueprints to C++
  • part 1.
• Blue Print Interfaces
  • A Detect Magic Spell
• A quick look at the Niagara System
  • Overview
  • An Example

Videos

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• 2/2
• 2/4
• 2/9
• 2/11
• 2/16
• 2/18
• 2/23
• 2/25
• 3/2
• 3/4
• 3/9
• 3/11
• 3/16
• 3/18
• 3/23
• 3/25
• 4/1 (Sorry, I started recording late)
• 4/6 (Sorry, I started the recording late again.)
• 4/13
• 4/20
• 4/22

Official Course Outline

Course Outline:

    I. Introduction to the Editor Interface
        A. Standard Tools
        B. Programming Language(s)

    II. Engine Overview
        A. Sound Engine
        B. Physics Engine
        C. Rendering Engine
        D. Programming Extended Behavior

    III. 2D Game Programming
        A. Sprites
        B. Animation
        C. Collision Detection

    IV. 3D Game Programming
        A. Animation
        B. Collision Detection

    V. Game Worlds
        A. Terrain
        B. Foliage & trees
        C. Buildings

    VI. Basic Artificial Intelligence
        A. Path following
        B. Dialog trees

    VII. Game Objects
        A. Collectables
        B. Importing assets
        C. Materials
        D. Lights
        E. Particles

    VIII. Game Characters
        A. Third Person Characters
        B. First Person Characters
        C. Non-player Characters

    IX. Game User Interface
        A. Heads Up Display
        B. Input Devices