An Educator's Guide to Unreal Engine Learning

Resources

Luis Cataldi, Education Evangelist, Epic Games

~ Recent Updates to UE4’s Online Documentation

~ How Docs are Structured

~ Key Video Training Updates (Some New Goodies)

~ Live/Learning Streamed

~ UE4 News Sources

~ 3rd Party Learning Resources

~ Learn Tab, Wiki, AnswerHUB, Searching for Help

~ In Engine Help & Learning Resources

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Recent Updates to UE4’s Online Documentation

Improved metadata support

Skill level

Engine version

Tags

Sitemap filters

** Checkpoints (coming soon)

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Recent Updates to UE4’s Online Documentation

Latest Publication Worth Noting

Installing Unreal Engine - Link

Downloading Unreal Engine Source Code - Link

Building Unreal Engine from Source - Link

Hardware & Software Specifications - Link

Compiling Game Projects - Link

Level Design Quick Start - Link

GearVR Global Menu - Link

Using Cameras - Link

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Recent Updates to UE4’s Online Documentation

Additional Noteworthy Publication for Edu (New Content)

Programming Quick Start – Link

Introduction to C++ Programming in UE4 – Link

C++ Programming Tutorials – Link

Open World Tools - Link

Compiling Game Projects - Link

** Gameplay Framework Quick Reference – Link

Gameplay Guide - Link

Introduction to Blueprints – Link

Blueprints - How To - Link

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How Docs are Structured

** How our Docs Work (Types of Doc Pages) **

** Overview Page - Link

** Quick Start Pages – Link

** Users Guides - Link

** How To Pages - Link

** Reference Pages - Link

** Samples - Link

** Tutorials - Link

** APIs - Link

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Key Video Training Updates (Some New Goodies)

New Video Page - Link

New Introduction to Blueprints (v4.8) - Link

New Time Attack Racer with Blueprints (v4.8) – Link

** New Twin Stick Shooter (full game curriculum) (v4.8) - Link

New Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) UI - Inventory Tutorial (v4.8) -

Link

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Recent Updates to UE4’s Online Documentation

Release Notes - Link●New Features●Performance Improvements●Platform Additions●Bug Fixes●Enhancements●Changes

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Twitch Stream Types

Livestreams●The Vineyard Challenge and Game Jam

Results

●ARK: Survival Evolved Announces Mod

Support

●VR and Unreal Engine - Link

●Creating "A Boy and His Kite” - Link

●Hiring and Recruiting at Epic

●Sales and Marketing

●Business and Legal - Link

●Sr. VFX Artist Bill Kladis Joins to Talk

Particles!

●More…

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Twitch Stream Types

Live Training – Link●Drag and Drop with UMG

●Creating a Match 3 Game

●Using Material Effects

●Creating a 2D Side-Scroller

●Materials and Particle Interactions

●Advanced AI

●Creating a 2D Side-Scroller

●Basics of AI

●Up and Running with Gear VR

●Extending the Editor

●Procedural Room Generation

●More…

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Twitch Stream Types

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Support streams●Foliage

●Blender and UE4

●Blueprint Optimization - Link

●Audio and Blueprints

●Behavior Trees

●UMG

●Runtime Animation Retargeting

● Rendering Best Practices – Link

●Developing for VR – Link

●Mobile Development – Link

●More…

NewslettersMonthly Educational Community Newsletters

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Email Campaign Archive - Link

3rd Party Learning Resources

Kitatus Studios – Ryan Shah – Link

Tesla Dev – Link

Rama - Link

Elhoussine Mehnik - Link

Hourences - Link

Romero Blueprints - Link

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The Learn TabDozens of free levels, assets, animation, effects, and complete projects to explore and learn from.

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You will find sample projects and free content in the following projects:● Content Examples● The complete A Boy and His Kite● Open World Demo Collection● Water Planes● Matinee environments and characters and content● Stylized Rendering environments and content● Realistic Rendering environments and content● Sun Temple environments and content● Particle Effects environments and content● Silly Geo complete game project and content● Multiplayer Shootout complete game project and

content● Platformer Game complete game project and

content● Swinging Ninja complete game project and content● Vehicle Game complete game project and content● Strategy Game complete game project and content● SciFi Bunk environments and content● Radial Impact complete game project and content● And more…

UE4 Wiki

Massive repository of

learning resources - LinkVideos

Tutorials

Plug-ins

Games

Code

More…

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AnswerHUBAbout 15 Epic Technicians working on AnswerHUB

1. Community Driven1. Use the search first2. Someone has probably asked this question before

2. Categories Matter for Responsiveness1. BUG Reports 2. C++3. Blueprints4. Rendering5. Etc

3. Help!!1. Answer issues you know2. Build cred3. People help you if you help too4. It’s a community after all

4. People are visual1. Submit a screenshot of the issue as best you can. It will help. 2. Use examples (base it on a known game)

16** Doc search hits AnswerHUB

The Learn TabThe place to go for help.

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Better than Google

because:

It searches all of Epic

Documentation

It searches the Community Wiki

It searches AnswerHUB

…provides you better answers.

** it is actually a Google gadget.

☻

In-Editor Help - Link

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Rich Tooltips

Help Icon

Documentation Actor

Help Menu

F1 Help

Help Search

In-Editor Tutorials

Content Examples - Link

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Email comments and questions to luis.cataldi@epicgames.com.