Hello, im new here.
I want to learn unreal from the start.
Does anyone knows a good course anywhere for begginers?
try the “learning” tab at the left.
I found a nice way to get started. When Unreal loads it loads plugins, so open the plugin manager and scan through the long list for anything that you like the look of. Don’t worry if it says Experimental, say yes.
I installed things like TextToSpeech, AnimToTexture, Mass Entity, Procedural Material and Chaos Flesh. In a search engine search “dev epic thenameoftheplugin” and you can find a tutorial on it. I don’t know Unreal that well but I had several features in my map working each day. The tutorials weren’t difficult either.
I picked up something you can’t live without if you want a game: Blueprints
If you can download UE5.1 you can follow this tutorial: Get Started With Blueprints
Use this asset: This is the Fab project
If you don’t know how to set up projects or install the engine: Get Started
Usually you cannot install a later version (e.g. 5.2) and open an earlier project (e.g. made in 5.0), so check what Fab assets work with the most you want to try out. There is even the 4.x version to download that will definitely not work with any version 5.x.
To check what project works with what engine, look at the Format tab:
This can be found the in Epic Launcher → Fab → Discover menu → Tutorials & Examples → (click one) → Opens what you see here
- If you want to animate something, there are projects for it
- If you want to download the City example and see how your computer handles the big features of Unreal, there are projects for it
- Movie or film…? Slay or Meerkat
- If you want a 3D shooter example, give Lyra a go
- Simple projects to look at, try Stack-O-Bot or Content Examples
- If you want bigger sample projects, try Electric Dream or Old West
- If you want to make a realistic human, try MetaHuman
- There are automotive / car displays for polished adverts etc..
- Chaos projects are about destructive buildings and fluids
- There are also 2D examples and side-scroller / platformer shooting games
- If you like artwork and textures you can learn about materials
- If you are an audio person you can look at MetaSounds
- If you like world building then drag in cubes, a sky and cones and build a grey box
- The Starter Pack comes with a basic first person and third person player camera / controller so you can walk around you levels…
I’m very glad Epic have made so many learning materials for everyone to download and play around with. Bear in mind Unreal Engine needs a powerful computer but I’ve been told simple projects are possible that might just work on an older machine (8 GB RAM, 2 GHz CPU, on-board graphics). Check the system requirements. There are also ways to reduce the graphics in the editor by scaling down the settings. One tip is to choose a smaller scene view and not full screen, so you can see four viewports (wireframed top,side views) plus the content browser at the bottom and that’ll give you 10 more frames per second.
(1) Start from this:
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/unreal-engine/getting-started
(2) Developer > Community > Learning
（３）Recentｏnline tutorial from EpicGame about how to design a full level and gameplay loop~
Design a Puzzle Adventure
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/designer-track