Hello guys and welcome to the Unreal
Engine 5 Complete Beginner Tutorial. This beginner tutorial is intended
for the complete beginner who is looking to get started using Unreal
Engine 5, whether that be for creating things like short films, games, or
whatever you might use the engine for. In this video we will cover how you can
download and install Unreal Engine 5, we will cover the bare basics like the
user interface, and all of the basic viewport controls that you need to know. We'll cover how you can manipulate
objects using the move, rotate, and scale tools, and we will go over how
you can get assets into Unreal Engine through various different means. We will cover some of the basic
subeditors in the engine, things like materials and blueprints. And the purpose of this video
is just to build you a strong foundation in using the engine. That way you have all of the
basic knowledge you need. To start using on religion five
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ahead and get right into the video. So to go ahead and get started
downloading the engine, you want to head over to unrealengine. com, I'll leave a link to
it in the description below. Now you're going to need to create
first an Epic Games account, so if you don't have an Epic Games account,
you'll want to go ahead and create one. So I'll have a link to that
in the description below, you'll just click sign up. And you can sign up with the email,
Google account, Facebook, or what not. But once you create an account, you can
go ahead and click this download button. And that will go ahead and
download the Epic Games Launcher. Which is what you'll use
to install Unreal Engine. So chances are you might already
have the Epic Games Launcher installed on your computer. Which in that case, you can just skip
ahead to the actual install part. So now that we have the installer,
we're gonna go ahead and run that. And click install. Then we'll go ahead and install the Epic
Games Launcher on our computer, and once it's finished installing, go ahead and
sign in with your Epic Games account. So I'm going to go ahead and
click sign in with Epic Games. Okay, and now we are signed in, so
this is the first thing that you're going to see when you launch the Epic
Games Launcher for the first time. So if you never use the Epic
Games Launcher, I'm going to go ahead and explain it for you. Basically, this main page that
we're on is the store page. So over here on the left, we
have these three different tabs. We have this store page, which
is what we're currently on. So these are all different games that
you can buy and play if you want to. Sort of like Steam, if you
ever used Steam before. Then on the left here,
we have this library tab. So if you click on that, these
are all the games that you've purchased from the store. So again, this is more towards, you
know, the Epic Games Store itself and all the purchases that you've made. But what we're interested is,
is on this Unreal Engine tab. So if you click on that, that will
actually take you to the Unreal Engine side of the Epic Games Launcher. So let's go ahead and dive into this. So first up at the top here, you can
see we have these different tabs. Currently we're in the News tab. Which means that we can see all of the
news and events related to Unreal Engine. So, you can see here, Unreal Engine 5. 3 was just released. We have a little news
article you can click on. We have some quick links to the
news blog on their website, the YouTube channel, Q& A, the forums,
and the Unreal Engine Roadmap. So those are nice handy links. If you scroll down even further, you
will have all of the different updates and events in the Unreal Engine world. So it's a really nice area to stay
up to date with the latest updates. Next up, we have the samples tab. So if you click on the samples, these
are all free sample projects that you can download for Unreal Engine. So we have this Lyra Starter
game, which is a multiplayer third person shooter game. We have this city sample, which
is this open world realistic city environments that you can run around. We have other different samples, and you
can all click on these and check them out. They're very helpful
for learning the engine. And just seeing how things are done and
implemented in these sort of projects. So you have things like game samples
and then down here, legacy samples. So these are a little bit older,
five plus years old, but you can still try some of these out. So that is the samples tab. The next tab that we have
is the marketplace tab. So if I click on this, this will take
us to the unroll engine marketplace. So basically what the unroll
engine marketplace is, is it's a place where you can purchase. 3d assets for unreal engine, whether that
be for making games or films, there's tons of different things that you can
buy on the unreal engine marketplace. And there's a lot of
actual free assets on here. So let's go ahead and talk about
the unreal engine marketplace. So first up, you have
this little banner here. Usually if they're running some sort of
promotion, some sort of sale, you're going to see up here, whether or not they have
a current sale, usually they'll have. Quarterly sales. I'll have like a summer sale,
a fall sale and all that stuff. If you scroll down, we have the showcase. So these are all of the showcased assets. You can see some of these have
discounts on the asset price. You can see the discounted price there. If you scroll down even further,
we have this free for the month. So this is very important because every
single month Epic games gives away five free marketplace asset packs. So these asset packs, you can
see they actually cost money. So this is 9. 99. 29. 99. You can see these are real assets
that are sold here on the marketplace. But what Epic does is they go
ahead and pay the creators of these asset packs in exchange for
making them free for one month. So if you come to the Unreal
Engine Marketplace every single month and Claim these. You just have to add it to
your cart and check out. It's a hundred percent free. You'll own these assets forever and
you can use them for your projects because after the month is over. So for this month, the month of
September, these marketplace assets will go back to the original price for,
you know, nine 99, 29 99 and whatnot. So very important that every single month,
even if you're not going to be using all of the things in here, I'd recommend
you just come open up the Epic Games Launcher and claim all these assets. I've been doing this for many,
many years, and I've amassed a massive library of free assets that
I'll show you here in a second. So that is the free for the month. If you scroll down, you have some
other different things, things like special discounts and also new releases. So on the marketplace, there's
also some filtering, so you can search products right here. You have things like the different
categories, so you can browse by 2D assets, animations,
characters, environments. So I click on environments, we can see all
the different Unreal Engine environments. And one neat thing is
you can filter by free. So if you click on this free, you
can browse Epic Games content. So these are all the samples. That epic has free and also some assets. So you can see, we have these
control rig samples pack. We have the mannequins here and
just a bunch of other free assets that you can use like these
little environments and props. So very handy. You can also filter over here by
price range and all that stuff. Okay. So that is the unreal engine marketplace. Next up, we're going to
go to the library tab. So if you click on library,
this is actually where you can install on real engine. So you can see we have engine versions
and we have this little plus icon. So this is where we're going to
install the engine here in a second. And down below it, we have projects. So this is where your unreal
engine projects will show up. We currently don't have any
projects, but later on when we actually go ahead and create one. This is where you will find it. Now, if you scroll down even
further, we have the vault. So basically the vault is all of
the unreal engine marketplace. Asset packs that you've either purchased
or that you've claimed for free from the marketplace They will show up in your
vault and here's where you can actually go ahead and add the content pack to your
project And I'll go over that more in detail later on in the video But as you
can see, I have quite a bit of assets here Most of this stuff I got for free
from the unrolling your marketplace So again, it's just claiming those five
free asset packs every single month So just make sure you do that because you
will collect Quite a bit of free assets. The last tab on here
is the twin motion tab. So if you click on it. Basically, Twinmotion is for
architectural visualization. So this is a completely separate
program that you can check out. But like I said, we're more
focused on the Unreal Engine side. So we're going to head
back to the library tab. So that is the Epic Games Launcher. Now let's go ahead and
focus on how we can install. Unroll engine onto our computer and of
course all the installation settings. So to install the engine you have two
different options You can either click this little plus icon right here, or
you can click this install engine up at the top I'm gonna click on this little
plus icon and Automatically if you don't have any versions or previous versions
It's going to automatically assign the most recent version of the engine. So you can see it's 5. 3. 0. So real quickly, let's
talk about the version. So 5 is the major version. So we have Unreal Engine 4. And then now we have Unreal Engine 5. Then 3. This is the sub version. So we have Unreal Engine 5. 0. 5. 1, 5. 2, and then 5. 3. And then we have basically
like the minor version of that. So if you're watching this
in the future, it could be 5. 3. 1. And basically that number after the
subversion is sort of like bug fixes to, you know, the main version of the engine. Now, if you click on this actual
dropdown, button, you can select the version of the engine. So you can see we have 5. 3. 0 selected. Then you can see the previous
version before that was 5. 2. 1. And then before that there was 5. 1. 1. Then we had 5. 0. 3. And then it even goes
into Unreal Engine 4. So you could even install the older
engine, which is Unreal Engine 4, and it goes all the way back. Okay. So in our case, we want to select the
version of the engine, which is 5. 3. 0. And then we can go ahead. And click on the install button. So now it's going to ask us choose
an install location so you can choose where you want to install
it on your hard drive I'm gonna leave it at the default location. Now before you click install This is very
important because there are some options that you can customize and this will
save you storage depending on what you're using Unreligion for So if you click on
this options, you're going to see that you have a couple of these different
checkboxes and certain things that you can choose whether or not you want. Now, all this core content up
here, I'm going to leave that all as checked because we're going
to be using all of the templates. I recommend you leave these all
as checked because these are very useful starter content. If you scroll down here, this is the
main part where you can customize. So under the target platforms. These are the different platforms
that you can create Unreal Engine projects for and package for. So we have things like
Android, iOS, and Linux. Now, if you have no desire to release
either a game or package an Unreal Engine project for these platforms, you can
uncheck all of these platforms, and this will go ahead and cut down the size. And installation of Unreal Engine. Now this is very useful for folks
who aren't going to be packaging for these platforms, or maybe
making games for these platforms. You can just go in and
uncheck all of those. And later on, say you change your mind,
you can always come back and modify the version of the engine and install
these components if you need to. Now I'm going to go ahead and hit
apply here, and click install. And then it's going to go ahead
and start downloading the engine. So you're going to see it's initializing. So I'm going to go ahead and give
this probably about 15 minutes to download and install, and
I'll be back when it's finished. All right. So we're back. So it finished installing. So as you can see. It is now installed. So now we can go ahead and
actually launch Unreal Engine. So you can either do
this two different ways. So you can click launch right here
by clicking on that button or you can click the launch Unreal Engine 5. 3 up here at the top. So I'm going to go ahead
and click the launch button. So it's going to ask us to
install the prerequisites. So we're going to go ahead and
have to install those real quick. Should only take a couple of minutes. All right, so now we've
launched Unreal Engine. So the first thing that you're going to do
when you launch the engine is it's going to ask you to create a brand new project. So you're going to pop open with
this Unreal Project Browser. And let's just go ahead and
talk about this real quickly. So first up, you have these
different tabs here on the left. So we have the first tab,
which is Recent Projects. So if you've created projects
previously, you're going to see the projects show up over here. Currently, I don't have any projects. Created because this is a brand
new installation of Unreal Engine. So you can see, I don't
have any projects shown. Now, if you click on the next tab
below it, we have this games tab. So this shows us basically all
of these little templates that we can choose to pick from. If we're going to be creating
a game with Unreal Engine. So you can see, we have
the blank template. So this is a clean, empty project. with nothing in it. We have this first person template,
so if you're creating a first person shooter game, this comes with a pre made
character controller and all that stuff. We have the third person template,
which is a third person character with a third person camera. We have things like a top down RTS style
template, handheld augmented reality. We have a virtual reality template for VR. And then we have this vehicle
or racing game templates, okay? So those are the different templates. Below the games, we have
film, video, and live events. So you can choose a blank template. We have things like virtual
production, DMX, in camera VFX, and a end display template. So depending on what you're
using the engine for, you're going to be creating your project
from these different templates. And really, it doesn't matter a whole ton. All of these templates give you,
I mean, pre made Project that has some stuff already set up for you. So it may save you some time, but
at the end of the day, it's going to be the same engine despite
the template that you choose. Okay. So just keep that in mind. Now architecture, we have some
other different templates for architectural visualization. So again, you can select. Whichever template that you're
going to be using the engine for. Then of course we have things
like automotive product design and manufacturing, and then lastly
we have this simulation template. Okay. So those are all of the different
templates that you can pick from. Now I'm going to be selecting
my template from the games tab. And again, you can pick any other
template if you want to and check some of these other things out, it's all
going to be the same engine nonetheless. But for me, I'm going to be
choosing the games template. I'm going to go with the
third person templates. So just a simple template and it
comes with this little character. Now, one thing you're going to
notice with specifically the games templates is you're going to have
these other different options. Now the options will be different
depending on which section you're in. So if I'm in the film
and video, you can see. We just have these two different options. Now in the games it's different because
you can pick either Blueprint or C So if you're going to be creating a game inside
of Unreal Engine, you can pick basically the programming language that you want. Now, Blueprint, I'm going to explain what
Blueprint is a little bit more at the end of this video, but basically it is the
visual scripting system of Unreal Engine. So it's the proprietary scripting system. And then you have C Now you can
always convert your project from Blueprint to C or vice versa. So you don't really have to
worry too much about that. I'm going to leave mine as Blueprint. For our target platform. You can click the drop down and
you have desktop and mobile. So that's which platform
you're making your game for. Again, you can always come back and
change these settings if needs be. So if you set something in here
and you want to change it later on, you can always come back to
the project settings and change it. So we have quality preset,
you can set it to maximum. or scalable. You have things like starter content. So this includes some starter assets. I'm actually going to
hit that little checkbox. That way we can play around with a couple
of different assets that we get and then ray tracing, whether or not you want a
ray tracing to be enabled in the project. And again, you can always enable
or disable this later on in the project settings itself. Then down here at the bottom, you're
going to see the project location. So where it's going to store
the project on your hard drive. So if you want to choose a
different location, you can click this little folder icon. And browse to a different
location on your hard drive. And then for the project name,
you can go ahead and rename this. I'm just going to rename
this to my first project. And then we can go ahead and click create. So that will go ahead and launch
Unreal Engine or the Unreal editor. Okay. So the first time you open up the engine,
you might get this little message, new plugins are available, and you
can see that it just faded away there. But basically if you get any sort
of little notifications down in the bottom right, chances are you
can just click dismiss on them. You don't really have to worry too much
about it, but now we are in the engine, and so I'm going to explain everything
that you see here, all of the UI. The controls and all that stuff. So first up we have in the center
of the screen is viewports. And so let's go ahead and talk
about the viewport itself. So if you right click and hold down
the right mouse button on your mouse in the viewport, I can look around
now to move around the viewports. You can use your W A S D keys. So you have to right click and hold down
the right mouse button, and then you can use your W A S D keys to move around. So you can use your W key to move forward. Your S key to move backward, then your
A and D keys to move left and right. So this is how you
navigate in the viewport. You have to hold on the right
mouse button, and then use those WASD keys to move around. So if you look down, you can move down. If you look up, you can
move upward, like that. Just by using your mouse and your WASD. Now there's some other different
controls that you can do with your mouse. So if you scroll with your mouse wheel,
you can see you can scroll in and out. So say I look down here I can scroll in
and scroll all the way out Just by using the scroll wheel and those are really
just the basic movement controls that you need to know now in the viewport itself
There are a lot of little buttons these buttons up here in the top left as well
as these buttons up here on the top Right. So right now we're just gonna focus on
this main viewport and talk about what all these little buttons do up here so
first of all If you left click in the viewport, you're going to notice that
you're actually selecting certain objects. Okay, so if you left click to use your
left mouse button, if we move around here, you can see that I currently have
this object selected and we can tell that it's selected because when I select it,
we can see this yellow outline around this object that you have selected. And we can also see this little. gizmo tool. So say for example, I
want to select this cube. You can see that I have the cube selected
because it's outlined by the yellow color. And you can also see that we have
this movement gizmo tool here. Let's talk about the movement gizmo. So the movement gizmo allows
you to move an object around and manipulate it inside of the viewport. So for example, we have
this cube selected. You can see that this movement gizmo
has these three different arrows. If you look closely, they
have three different colors. So we have a blue arrow. a red arrow and a green arrow. Now, if you hover over any of these
arrows, you can see it's highlighted in yellow, which arrow you have hovered over. So for example, we're going to
hover over this green arrow. And if I click and drag, you can
see that I can move this cube by grabbing that green arrow. Now I can do the same for the red arrow. So if I hover over this red arrow
and click and drag it, you can see I can move this cube left and right. And then I can also grab this blue arrow. And move this cube up and down. Okay. So those are the little movement gizmos. Now these movement gizmos correlate
with the axes of unreal engine. So if you look really closely at the
bottom left of your report, you're going to notice we have that same little gizmo
and we have the three different colors. We have the blue, the red and the green. So you can see the blue arrow
corresponds to the Z The red arrow corresponds to the X, and then the
green arrow corresponds to the Y axis. So if I hover over and grab the red
arrow, I'm moving my cube on the X axis. If I grab the green arrow and move it back
and forth, I'm moving it on the Y axis. And if I grab my cube by the
blue arrow, I can move it up and down, or in the z axis, okay? So those colors correspond to the
different axes in Unreal Engine. Now, we've covered the move tool,
so we can move objects around. So for example, this cube. Now, we're going to move on to the
next tool, which is the rotate. So you can switch to the rotate tool by
either clicking on this little button. So if you look up here on the
top right of our viewport, we have these different buttons. So at first we have the select objects. If I click on that little
mouse icon, I can select. different objects. Now, if I click on this four arrows
icon, you can see, we get that move gizmo that we were just on. So that allows us to move objects. And then if I click on the next
icon here, you can see this allows us to actually rotate objects. So if you click on those little
circular arrows, you can see that our gizmo now updates. To this new half circle gizmo. So you can see we have the green color,
the red color, and the blue color. And again, we can hover over
one of these half circles. And if I click it and drag, you can see
that I can now rotate our cube like so. So I can grab it on the red half
circle, which is our x axis. And I can rotate it on the x axis. I can also grab it... On this green half circle
and rotate on the y axis. Now I can also grab this blue
section and rotate it on the z axis. So you can rotate the cube like
so, by just grabbing these little handles and dragging it like so. Now, say you wanted to undo this. Say I messed this all up and
I wanted to undo my settings. You can hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl Z. And that will go ahead and undo. So you can see I can hit control Z quite
a couple of times and it will reset our rotation back to the default rotation. Now I can switch back to the
movement tools by clicking on the little icon up at the top. So you can see I can switch back to the
movement tool and now I have my little arrows so I can move the cube around. Then I can switch over to the rotate
tool and now I have my rotation tools. So I can rotate this cube. Now you can also switch through
hotkeys so I could do W. So W to transform and E will
give us our rotation tools. And if you want those hotkeys,
if you hover over these buttons, it will show you. The hockey to change to that mode. So we've covered the movement mode. We've covered the rotation mode. Now let's talk about scaling. So if you click this last icon
right here, you can see that we can scale objects that we have selected. So now we have this new little gizmo
here, similar to our movement gizmo, but we have these little cubes and you
see, we have a green cube, a red cube. And a blue cube. So again, I can hover over the
green cube, click and drag. And now you can see, I can
scale our cube on the Y axes. I can also hover over this red
cube and scale it on the X axis. And then I could also grab this
cube and scale it on the Z axis. Okay. And so that is how you
can use the scale tool. Now one good thing to note is that
you can actually scale this cube. uniformly, which means if you hover
over the center cube and click and drag, you can see that it scales a cube
evenly or uniform all the way around. So I can scale this cube and
make it super big, or I can scale it all the way back down. You can also do this
for two different axes. So if I hover my mouse cursor in
between this red and green box, you can see I have both of them now selected. And if I click and drag, we can scale it. Both in the X and Y axis. Okay, this same thing applies to
both the Z and X So if I hover it in between those I'm gonna
scale it on both the Z and X axis. Okay, so just a nice helpful tool So
again, to undo, we can do control Z. Now we'll go ahead and undo all
of the settings that we did. Now we can switch back to our movement
by pressing W we can switch to our rotation by pressing E and then we
can switch to our scale by pressing R. So those are the different hotkeys. We have W to move E to
rotate and R to scale. Now the next thing that
we're going to cover. This little icon right here. We're going to cover all of these
little buttons here on the viewport. So we're just going to
go from left to right. So this next icon here
is this little cube icon. So this switches between
world space and global space. So. Currently I have the scale gizmo
selected, so let's actually switch to the movement tool. So when I switch to the movement tool,
you can see right now it is set to global or world space, and you can notice this
by that little sphere or globe icon. And if I click on it, you can see that it
switches to this cube icon or local space. Now what this means is Let's
actually switch this back to global. I'm going to rotate my cube like this. So I'm going to press E and
rotate it about 30 degrees. Now, if I switch back to our w
key, you can see, I can't rotate or move this cube in this direction. I can't move it diagonally. I could only move it by this
grid, which sometimes let's say I want to move this cube. diagonally. So if I switch and click on this
little icon and switch it to local space, you're going to see
that the gizmo now changes and is orientated to the cubes local space. So now I can grab this arrow and
move it diagonally and it makes it a lot easier to move this cube around. In the viewport so you can switch
it from local space back to global space and you can see that the
global space is Snapped to this grid. So this is very useful for manipulating
objects because you're gonna find that You're gonna have some trouble when you're
moving an object around and all you have to do is switch it either to the world
space Or the local space and that will update your little gizmo there Okay,
so that is our local and world space the next thing that we have here is is
control how objects snap to surfaces. Now, if I click on this, you can
see we have this little options menu so we can turn on surface snapping. Now this has to do when
you drag in objects. into your world where say I were
to drag this cube into our level. We want this to snap to the ground
rather than having to drag and drop it and align it up with the ground itself. Now we're going to cover this
little setting later on, but basically that is what it affects. Now directly to the right of that, we
have some other different settings here. So the first thing that we
have here are the snap sizes. So if you haven't noticed already,
if you look really closely at the cube, I can only move our cube. By a certain amount. So for example, you can see that it
kind of snaps to the grid So no matter how hard I try I can't get to the cube
to be placed Precisely right here. Okay, it can only be either at this
position or that position now that has to do with the grid Snapping. So if I unclick this grid snapping
you can see that it is grayed out. It's no longer blue. Now, if I move the cube, I
can move it precisely where I want it to be on this grid. So you can see, I can move it and
position it right where I want it to be. And it doesn't snap. to any sort of grid. Okay. So I can re enable grid snapping
by clicking on that little icon. Now it's blue. And now you can see that
our cube snaps to this grid. We can also change the grid snap size. So if you click on this little 10 icon
here, currently it's set to 10 units. So I could set it up to 50. And now if I drag my cube, you
can see that it snaps at 50 units. So the snap, the grid
snapping is more apparent. I could change this up to a hundred. And now you're going to see that the
grid snapping is much further and this is very useful for when you're trying
to design a level or an environment where you need certain objects lined up
at precise locations, you could use the grid snapping and that will ensure that
certain objects are spaced out equally. Okay, so I'm going to change
my grid snap settings 10. And again, if you want to disable grid
snapping, which is also very useful if you need that precise placement. You can uncheck that little icon and
that will allow you to place your cube nice and smooth and you can position
it wherever you want without having to worry about that grid snapping. Now the next thing that we
have is rotation snapping. So just like moving our cube around, if
I press E to rotate, you can see that we can only rotate our cube by 10 degrees. So I can rotate it 40, 50 degrees
and you can see that grid. when I try and rotate the cube. So just like our other
snapping, we can disable it. So if you click on the little
icon there, it turns to gray. That means that it's now disabled. So now I can rotate this cube
nice and smooth and I can get that precise rotation on this cube. So again, very useful if
you're trying to get a really precise placement or rotation. On the cube, you can
disable rotation snapping. That way you can get that smooth rotation. You can turn it back on and you
can also change the snap settings. So if you click on that little icon,
say I wanted to rotate this cube 90 degrees, I can rotate it a full 90 degrees
and get that nice accurate rotation. Okay, so that is our rotation snapping. I'm going to go ahead and
reset that back to normal. Then lastly we have our scale snapping. So again, if I press R on our keyboard,
that will pull up our scale tool. And I'm actually going to reset this. So I'm going to do control Z to
undo all of the changes here. So now if I were to scale
this, you can see that our cube snaps to this little grid. So you can see I can, I
can't precisely change it. So again, I can on check or scale snap. Button right there. It turns gray. So now it's disabled. So now you can see I can scale this
cube really small or really big. And you can see I have a
smooth scale on this cube. We can also enable the grid snapping. And if we want to, we can
increase the snapping size. So if I want to snap it by
one, you can see that we have a much larger snapping size. Okay. So those are the different
grid snapping options. Again, we have it for movement. We have our rotation snapping and
then we have our scale snapping. Now next up to the right of this,
we have this little camera icon. Now this is very important because
you may already have noticed. When you move around the viewport,
this is a pretty fast camera speed. So for example, if I'm trying to
really zoom up on this cube, I can't get too close to it before I,
you know, move into the cube mesh. So if you want to change your camera
speed, you can click on that little camera icon and you can decrease this. And now you can see I have
a much slower camera speed. We have more control and more
precise movement over our camera. Now you can go ahead and increase
this all the way if you want a really fast camera speed. So this is really good if you have a
massive open world map or environment and you need to move across the
map very fast or very quickly. You can up your camera speed. Now, you can also adjust your camera
speed by scrolling on your mouse wheel. So if you hold your right mouse
button, and if you scroll by moving forward, you can see we can
actually speed up our camera speed. So if you scroll up, it will speed it up. If you scroll down, it will
slow down your camera speed. So just by holding the right mouse
button and scrolling on your keyboard. That will affect your camera speed. So very important setting because it
will help you when you're manipulating objects in the viewport so that
you can turn down your camera speed and have that precise movement. Okay. So this last icon in our viewport is this
little cube with a grid inside of it. Now, if you click on it, what this
does is it will give us a quad view. Of our viewport so you can see
our viewport is down here and then we also have these other
three additional viewports. So this one up here if I scroll in
and out if you use the mouse wheel on your mouse and scroll out and now
you can actually see your level and this is a back view of our level. So this is giving us a wireframe
sort of like an x ray of all of the different objects in our level. So this is our cube that
we have currently selected. In this sort of x ray wireframe view. Then over here we have this right view. So we have a right view of our level. And then down here we have
this top down view, okay? Now if you want to move around you can
also pan by holding right mouse button. So if you right click in here, that'll
allow you to pan around and then again you scroll in and out to zoom in and out
So this is very helpful If you want to get precise placement of your objects
in laying out your level whether that be for game design or for environment you
can get sort of this precise top down grid view of your scene or your level. Now we can switch back to
our main viewport by clicking on that little icon again. So right here, I'll go ahead and maximize
our viewports back to the way it was. Now those are all of
the different viewports. Buttons over here on the right. Now let's go ahead and move over
here on the left and cover the rest of the viewport buttons. So over here we have
this three lines icon. So if you click on this, this will
give us a little dropdown of options. So it gives us a couple of
different viewport options. Now we have things like real time. So if you want to toggle real time
rendering on or off, you can disable real time rendering on and off. I'm going to leave this on as
usual, but say you have a lower end computer, you can go ahead and
disable that by unchecking that. We also have things like show FPS. So if you want to show your
frame rate and click on that little check box right there. And now you can see we're getting
about 120 FPS in our scene. And it's just a nice
little frame rate tool. You can go ahead and disable
that by unchecking that. We have a couple of other things that
we can change, other settings in the viewports, things like our field of view. You can change the field
of view of the camera. I'm going to change this back
to 90, which is the default FOV. You have a couple of different other
options down here, and I'll highlight just a few more things in here. We have things like the game view. So if you click on this, You can
see that it hides that little gizmo. So the game view, you can
also press G on the keyboard. So if you press the G key, that
will hide these little gizmos. In the viewport. So I press G, that will go into game view. Now it gives us sort of a view
as if we were playing the game. If I press G, you can see that we
now have these little editor icons. Where we can see the
little gizmo on our screen. So game view is sort of helpful
if you want to take like a screenshot or something. You can hide that little
gizmo by pressing G. And it will hide all these
little editor gizmos. Now another thing in this drop
down menu is you can also take a high resolution screenshot. So if you click on that, it'll
pull up a little menu where you can take a little screenshot. You can increase the size multiplier
and that will increase the resolution. It'll capture it to a location
on your hard drive, okay? So if you want to take a screenshot,
you can do it through there. Now there's a lot more other
settings in here, but those are just some of the basics. So next up, we're going to move
on to this next icon over here. So right now you can see we
are in the perspective mode. So this is the perspective mode. Now I can switch this drop down
and change it to orthographic. So I can click and select
this top down view. And now you can see that we're in that
top down view that we saw earlier. So if I scroll in and out, I can use my
mouse wheel to scroll or zoom in and out. Again, I can use my right mouse button. To pan around, either that's
up, down, left, or right. And you can see we have this
top down view of our level. You can see the cube that we
have selected, right there. And again, just a very useful
view for when you're laying out objects in your level. And you need that precise placement
when you're laying it out. Okay? We also have other different
views, like the bottom view. So we can get a bottom view of our level. We can switch this to left. We have right. We have front. And then finally we have back. Okay. So I'm going to reset this
back to our perspective. So I'm going to select perspective. And those are pretty much all
the different settings in there. Next up we have lit. So we can change the different
view modes in our viewport. So currently we have the default
lit mode which basically has all these different shadows. You can see the lighting and all that
inside of our viewport, we can click on this little icon and change it to unlit. And now you can see that we have this
unlit scene where we don't have any lighting, there aren't any shadows. And this is actually very useful
for people who are running the engine on a lower end machine. If you change this to the
unlit mode, you should notice a instant boost in your frame rate. And so this is a very nice little tip if
you're running the Unreal engine on a. Lower end machine. Now we can also switch to the wireframe
mode, which will give us that x ray view that we were talking about earlier. So if you really want to see through
all the different objects in your scene, you can turn on the wireframe and it
will show you all the different little polygons that make up all the 3d objects. Okay, next up below that we have
some other different options. I'm not going to go through every
single option here because there's quite a bit of different options. You have things like, you know,
lighting only, reflections. There's just so many different,
uh, view modes I can go into. I'm just going to reset it back
to the default mode, the lit mode. But a lot of these things will come
in handy later on when you're doing more advanced things in the engine. Next up, we have this show. So this allows us to hide and toggle
certain objects in our viewport. So for example, I could show or hide our
atmosphere, and that will go ahead and hide those clouds and all that stuff. I can re show it by hitting
the little checkbox. I can show or hide the grid. So this little grid, let me go
ahead and show it real quickly. So if you move out of this level
and if I zoom up real closely down here, you can see that we
have this little grid right here. Okay. So sometimes it may be annoying
that you can see this grid. So if you want to disable this grid,
you can actually click on the show icon and hide the grid like so. Okay. So just a neat little tip there. You can also show things like
the landscape particles and all other different types of objects. Okay. So again, I'm not going to go. To in depth about all these different
things, but there's quite a bit of different options that you
have here and again A lot of these things will come in handy later on. Okay, so those are all the different
viewport buttons So just to recap we went over the basic viewport controls moving
around in the viewports Manipulating objects by moving rotating and scaling
objects one over things like these snapping sizes the camera speed The
different view modes and show options. So that is the viewport. We're going to go ahead and
move on and start talking about the rest of the user interface. So things like this top ribbon up here,
then other things like the outliner. And the details panel. So first let's go ahead and talk
about this top ribbon up here. So first things first, we
have these different tabs. So we have this file menu. So if you click on this, it
will drop open a little menu. First things first, we have
open so you can open a level. So currently we're in
this third person map. So you can see the name of
the level that we have open. Right here third person map. We're gonna go over how to create a new
level But basically if you want to create a new level you can do it by clicking
on that or you can open another level We have other things like open assets and
then we have things like save So this is very important because say I moved a
couple of different objects in my level We want to go ahead and do a file Save
all now go ahead and save any changes that I have made to our level or to our
project By doing that file, save all, you can also click on this little save icon
right here, and that will go ahead and save all the changes that you've made. So we have our save below
that we have imports. So you can import certain objects. I'm going to cover that
later on in the video. So you don't have to
worry about that just yet. Then lastly, down here, we have projects. So we can create a new project. If we want to create a new Unreal Engine
project, we can open a recent project by hovering over the recent projects. Or we can exit our project by
clicking this little exit button. Now, next up, we have the edit menu. So if you hover over this edit button,
we have this little drop down menu. We have things like undo and redo. So if we want to undo something, we
can hit Ctrl Z or we can click on undo. Now we'll undo that little movement
that I did with the cube there. Or I can do Edit, Redo,
to redo that movement. Then we have Edit, Cut, Copy,
Paste, Duplicate, and Delete. So these are very important. In fact, let's go ahead
and cover these right now. So you can cut certain
objects in the viewport. So if I select this cube and do Ctrl
X, that will go ahead and cut it. If I do Ctrl V, that will
go ahead and paste it. I can also do copy, so if I do Ctrl
C and then Ctrl V, that will go ahead and paste that object twice. So now I have two of
these different objects. I can also duplicate an object by hitting
the keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl D. So if I hit Ctrl D, you can see
that it duplicates that cube again. Okay? Now I can go ahead and delete objects
by selecting it and clicking delete. And now we'll go ahead and delete
that object from our scene. Another neat thing for duplicating objects
is if you actually select this cube, you can hold down the Alt key on your
keyboard, and if you drag one of these arrows, you can duplicate a cube like so. So you just hold down alt and
drag an arrow and that will go ahead and duplicate the object. Okay. So I find that very useful
for duplicating objects. But again, there's many different ways
you can either do ctrl D to duplicate, or you can copy and paste it by doing
ctrl C and ctrl V to copy and paste. So those are the different edit controls. Now below it, we have configuration. So these are very important because
chances are you will be Messing around with these different settings. So first things first, we have things
like the editor preferences So if you click on this, this will pull up things
like the unreal editor settings So when you change things like the theme you
can customize it here You can change things like the viewport controls and
all that stuff And of course if you mess things up in here, you can always
reset it as a default layout Okay, so that is the editor preferences below it. We have project settings So if you click
on that This will pull up the project settings for our particular project. So currently you can see things
like the project thumbnail. So if you want to change this thumbnail
to a custom image, you can click this little drop down and select
a custom image on your computer. You can change things like the project
name, the version, and all that stuff. And there's a lot of other
different settings inside of here that you can mess around with. And again, you probably
will visit this later on. So just know that this does
exist under the edit settings. Then lastly, under here, we have plugins. So if you click on this little plugins
icon and we'll bring up the plugins. Now, as you can see, there's a lot of
different plugins for the engine, and you can take some time to browse through all
of these and look through all of them. The Unreal Engine comes with a
lot of built in plugins, some which are completely disabled. So for example, if you
find a cool little plugin. Maybe something like this
camera shake previewer. You can click on that little plus icon and
I will go ahead and enable this plugin. So chances are later on,
you'll be messing with plugins. You'll be coming in here to enable a
certain plugin and that will add more features or functionality to the engine. Now there's also third party
plugins that you can buy from the unreal engine marketplace. That will add more functionality or
integrations with other different programs or with other different services. So just note to add plugins, you
would come into the plugins tab. So that is all of the different
buttons under the edit tab. Next up, we have the window tab. If you hover over this, you can see
that we have all the different windows. So we have things like cinematics,
content browser details. We'll cover these here in a second. But basically say for example,
I accidentally close one of our windows or I mess things up. So for example, this details panel,
which I'll cover here in a minute, say for example, I accidentally closed this
little X icon and I actually messed it up or even this outliner right here. Okay. So I actually exit out of
those windows to get that back. I can go to window and I can
open up that specific window. So I can go to window outliner
and click on outliner one. Now we'll put that back right there. I can also go to my window and go
back to details and click on details one Now we'll go ahead and put
that window back right there Also, I can reset the default layout. So if you go all the way down
here, we have a load layout We have the default editor layout. So that will reset it Just in
case I accidentally close a bunch of windows by accident, okay? Now there's a couple of other different
windows in here And again, you'll learn what all these different things
do as you progress in using the engine But for now, we're going to go ahead
and just gloss over some of these. So next up we have tools So under the
tools you'll find different tools for the engine again These have to do with
more different advanced things that you can do with the Unreal Engine Now if you
are using programming in C You can add a new C class through this little menu. But again, we're just going to gloss over
these different things because they're not really necessary for the beginner to know. Next up we have the build. So the build tab shows us
different build options. Things like building the lighting,
reflections, and all that stuff. Currently Unreal Engine uses dynamic
lighting, so you don't have to build any lights because it's all dynamic. So for example, if I move this cube,
you can see that the shadow reacts dynamically so I can rotate this cube. We don't have to bake any lights
because it's all done in real time. Now, if you were to switch to static
lighting, say for example, you're making things like maybe a mobile game or you
want extra performance by switching to static lighting under the build options. That's where you can. Build things like the lighting and
also things like reflections and again We're gonna gloss over a lot
of these other different options here and just move on to the next tab so
next up we have select so I rarely use this little tab, but basically
this gives us the Selection tools. So if you want to select all the objects
in your scene, you can do select all or ctrl a Now we'll go ahead and select
everything in your scene So again, you could do ctrl a and that will do the
same thing You can unselect all by doing escape and that will deselect everything. You also have focus selected or the F key. Now this is actually a really useful tool. So for example, say I select this
cube and I'm all the way over here. If I click the F key that will go ahead
and focus my camera in on that cube. So this is very useful because I need to
get over really quickly to this object. Instead of moving my camera
to it, I can just select it. And press F on the keyboard. Now we'll go ahead and
focus in on that object. It also works for things
like larger objects. So if I select this floor, I can press F. And it will focus my camera out so
that it's completely in our view. So again, we have other
different selection options. We have things like we can select
all the lights in our scene. And a couple of different things. Again, I don't really
use this menu that often. So let's go ahead and move on. To the next one, we have this actor tab. So this gives us a couple of
different options, uh, related to the thing that we have selected. So if I select this cube,
I click on the actor. You can see that we have browsed to
assets, edit the cube, and a couple of different options, things like edit
visibility, snapping and all that stuff. If you also right click the cube. So if I select this and right
click it, You can see that we also have the same window right here. So this actor window also pops up
if you right click this cube and we'll cover this later on, but just
note that you can get that same window by right clicking like so. Okay. Now, lastly, we have this help tab. So if you click this dropdown, this gives
us a couple of different resources that we can use to help us learn the engine. So this gives us things like the
documentation, we have the viewport controls, it'll show us the controls. We have quick links, so this will
take us to the documentation pages. And down below we have community
links, so we can open up the forms, the learning library, Q& A. And all that stuff. We also have options for support
and reporting bugs for the engine. They're just really nice
quick links to get help. So those are the different buttons up
at the top or the different little tabs. Let's go ahead and move down. So again, down here below it,
we have the third person map. So this will show us the name of
the map that we currently have open. So you can see it's third person map. Now directly below it,
we have this little bar. So we have all the icons on this bar. So let's go ahead and
talk about all of these. So first we're going to start
from the left over to the right. The first thing that we
have is the save icon. So again, if you move an
object around, you click save. I will go ahead and save our changes. The next thing that we have
is this little browse icon. So if you click on this little
icon, it will browse to this third person map levels by browse to it. It will show us our
third person map level. In this content browser. And we're going to cover this content
browser window here in a second. But basically, that is what that
little folder icon does right there. Now to the right of it we
have the selection mode. So currently we are in the selection
mode because we can select objects with our mouse by clicking on them. Now if you click this little drop
down it will have these different modes that you can also pick from. So I can change from the selection
mode to the landscape mode. And as you can see, it
changes things in our vports. We now have this green grid. And we also have this
landscape window right here. So this will allow us to change through
the different modes in the engine by just selecting the different modes. Now, let's go ahead and actually
talk about the different modes. So we have the landscape mode,
which is for creating landscapes. So this is what you'd use to create
things like mountains or hills. And you can do things like sculpting
your landscape and all sorts of stuff. Next up, we have the foliage mode. So what this allows you to do is it allows
you to paint things like rocks, trees, bushes, grass, all of that stuff onto
your landscape or into your environment. It's a very useful tool because
you can use sort of a paintbrush. To paint all of those objects into
your level rather than having to hand place each individual one. Now, below that we have
the mesh paint mode. What the mesh paint mode allows
you to do is it allows you to paint directly onto a mesh. In your level, and then this is very
useful for artists to customize the look of certain objects in the level below
that we have the modeling mode, which is a brand new mode added to the engine
where you can actually 3D model objects inside of the Unreal Engine editor, just
as you would in other 3D applications like Blender or Maya or 3ds max. Next up, we have a fracture mode. What the fracture mode allows
you to do is to create. Destructible meshes. So for example, if I wanted to make
this cube explode into a billion pieces, I could switch over to the
fracture mode and fracture this cube to create sort of a destructible mesh. Below that we have the brush editing. This allows you to create very
basic brushes and geometry. I don't really use this mode that often. But it could be useful
when blocking out a level. Lastly, we have animation. So again, another feature that
Unreal Engine has is the ability to animate inside the engine itself. So you can actually create custom
animations for characters or for different, or for different objects. And you can use this to create things
like cinematics inside of the engine. But those are the different modes. We're going to go back
into the selection mode. And again, that will allow us to
select different objects in our level. So to the right of the different modes,
we have this cube plus icon, and this will allow us to add content into our project. So first things first,
we have import content. So that will allow us to import 3D objects
from our computer into our project, which I will cover later on in the video. We have things like Quixel Bridge,
which is a neat library of high quality. 3D assets. Again, we'll cover that later on. Below that, we have the Unreal
Engine Marketplace, which is what we saw on the Epic Games Launcher. I will cover how to add assets from there. Then below that, we have
the Content Browser. Again, we'll cover that here in a second. But below that, we have some basic
actors that we can add into our scene. So we have things like lights,
cinematic things like cameras, basic shapes like cubes. So if I were to take a cube, you'll
see we can get to this basic. Plain white cube. You can also add other different
shapes like a sphere, like so. And so you can add different
objects from that Q plus icon. You can also add things like
visual effects and volumes. So again, these will be very useful
later on as you learn the engine itself. And then of course you
have the all classes. So this is basically all of the different
things that you can drag into the level. Now a neat thing about this is
you can actually type in here. So I can type in cube and then it
will go ahead and Give us a cube from the all classes and I can
drag and drop that like, so, okay. So I'm just a nice little neat
feature that you can type in search in whatever you need. Okay. So that is the cube plus
icon to the right of that. We have these little nodes. So basically this is the blueprint button. So you can do things like
create a new blueprint class. You can also open things
like the level blueprint. And again, Blueprints are the visual
scripting system of Unreal Engine. You can think of it sort of
as programming, but without having to type in any code. We're going to cover Blueprints at the
end of this video very briefly, but they are very useful because you can create
complete games with Blueprints, and even if you're not making games inside
of Unreal Engine, you can create custom tools with Blueprints that allow you to
speed up your workflow and much more. Now to the right of that, we have
this little cinematic button. Basically, this will allow us
to create things like cinematics or movies or short films. Then to the right of that, we
have these different play options. So we have this green play icon. So if I hit this little play button,
what you can see is we are now playing this third person game. So we created that third
person game template. So if I click in here, you can see
if I can move my camera around. By just moving my mouse around. I can use my W, A, S, D keys
to move around our level. I could also do things like jump. So our character can actually jump. And this is actually how you play
your game if you're going to be making a game inside of Unreal Engine. And if you want to escape out of
this, you press the escape key. And that will go ahead and
pull you out of the play mode. Okay? So basically the play mode is
sort of for testing your game and actually playing the game. And of course you have
other things like pausing. stopping, or even ejecting. And then to the right of that, we
have these three different options. So these are some more options
for playtesting your game. So you can do things like
play in a new editor window. Now we'll go ahead and play in, in
this separate window right here. Or we can change it back to the
selected viewports like this. So again, some more different options. You can also change things
like play two different players and all that stuff, okay? So this more or less has to do
with if you're creating a game inside of Unreal Engine and you
want to go ahead and playtest it. Now to the right of
that we have platforms. So if you click on this little
dropdown, this will show you all the platforms that you can package
your game or your project for. So we have things like Android,
iOS, Linux, tvOS, Windows. All that stuff. So again, if you're going to package
your project, either as a standalone demo or a game, or maybe some sort of
application that you want to send to like a client, you would go in here and
you'd select the platform that you want to package for, and you'd go ahead and
package the project and that will go ahead convert this project into, you
know, an executable file that you can give to your friend and they can run your
game or your demo as executable file. Okay. So those are all of the different
settings up here on the top left. Let's go ahead and move
over here onto the right. So up here at the top, right,
we have the name of our project. So you have my first project. If you hover over this, you can
see things like the version. of the engine that you're using. Now this is very useful because it'll
show you the Unreal Engine version of the project that you're on. Things like the branch, the
build date, and all that stuff. Then we have things like the
minimize, maximize, and close options. So if you want to minimize or
maximize the Unreal Editor. Then down below that we have settings. So if you click on the settings, we
have a couple of different things. Uh, things like we saw before are
our project settings and our plugins. So a little quick access to that. Now we have a couple of different
options down here, but the main thing that I want to highlight in this window
is the engine scalability settings. So this is very important because,
say you're running the Unreal Editor on a low end computer. If you don't have the best
computer, you can go to these engine scalability settings, and
you can set this all to low, okay? So that will set the lighting
to low, that will set... The graphics and all that to the lowest
settings and that should give you a performance boost and even then if you're
still not getting the best of frame rate, you can go in and change this to unlit
and that should, you know, boost your performance as much as possible, just so
you can at least use the engine if you're using it on a very low end computer,
okay, I can reset all my settings by going back to the engine scalability settings. I can set this all to epic. You can also go all the way to cinematic. I'll Or you can go in and
actually customize the settings by selecting the different options. Okay, so that was the
engine scalability options. There's some other different things that
you can customize in here, but I'm going to go ahead and just leave that as is. Below that, let's go ahead and
talk about this outliner window. So this is the outliner. So this lists all the actors in the level
by name organized in this tree view. So basically you can see we
have our third person map. And we have all of the different
objects inside of our level. Okay. So you can scroll up or down this list. And the neat thing about this is if
I select on this cube, you can see it's now selected in this outliner. You can see we have our cube selected
and say, I select this object over here. You can see we have this quarter
cylinder 12 I select on this. We have this. Sm underscore ramp 2 and again, we
select our cube you can see that we now have that cube selected You can also
select multiple objects in the outliner So if I select and shift select all
of these cubes You can see I now have them all selected in the viewports. So this is also very useful for say You
know, I get lost all the way over here. If I select this cube and click on the
F key, that will go ahead and focus me back on that object that I have selected. So the Outliner is very
useful for selecting objects. And you can also delete
objects from there. So I can select on this
cube and delete it. Now we'll go ahead and delete
the object in our viewport. Ctrl Z to undo that. But that is basically the world outliner. You can also do things like
show or hide certain objects by hitting that little eyeball icon. So again, just some basic things, okay? You also have things like folders. So you can see this is a little folder. So I expand it, you can see all the
different objects inside of that folder. So you can organize objects in
your Outliner by adding folders. I believe all you'd have to do to
do that is to right click up here on your third person map, and create
a new folder, and then you just drag an object into that folder. Okay? So now you can see we have this new folder
1, and this cube is now in that folder. Okay? So that is the World Outliner. Next up, below it, we
have the Details panel. Or the details window. So if I select on this cube, what
you're going to notice in the details is we now have that cube selected. And you can see because we have the
name of that object, which is the cube. Now I have this ramp selected. And you can see that we have
the ramp 2 in the details panel. And what the details panel does... is it shows us more different details
about this cube, or about the object that we have selected in our viewport. So for example, we have things like
the name, then down below it, we have things like the transform, so things
like the location, rotation, and scale. And so if you remember back to when
we were rotating and moving around this object, if we go ahead and move
this cube, If you see, if I move this cube on the Y axis or back and
forth like this, you can see the location is actually changing based on
where we put this cube in our level. So this location controls the
precise X, Y, and Z values of this cube inside of our level. So for example, if I wanted to reset this,
I could set this to 0 and then go 0 and 0. So if I set our location to 0, 0, 0,
and then if I press the F key on our keyboard, it will focus in on the cube. And now you can see our cube is placed
exactly at the location 0, 0, 0, okay? So the transform in the details
controls the precise location, things like the rotation and the scale. So if I want to reset that. Control Z. I'll go ahead and reset the location
back to the default location. Now you could also hit
this little arrow icon. So if you hover over this, it says, reset
this property to this default value. So if you click on that, it will
reset it to the default value, which in our case is zero, zero, zero. Now we'll go ahead and set it back
to this zero, zero, zero location. Okay, let's go ahead and move the cube. back over here. But basically we can also change
other things like the rotation. So if I wanted to rotate this 30
degrees on the X, you could type in 30 into the rotation there, and it
will go ahead and update the rotation. If I wanted to reset it, I could
reset it to the default value. And now you can see our cube has reset
the rotation back to 0, 0, and 0. We can also do things like change
the scale, so if I wanted to set this to 100 by 100 by 100. You can see our cube is now massive
and it covers the entire level. And again we can reset it by
hitting that little back arrow. And you can see it resets
it to the default scale. So you're going to see that
little back arrow very commonly. And that just means reset it to the
default values that we have set. Next up we have things like mobility. So if it's a static,
stationary, or movable object. Now this mainly has to do with
things like lighting and physics. So you can see this other
cube here is set to static. Because this is just a static
object, but this cube over here is actually set to movable. And the reason why that is is if I
hit play, if I actually run up to this cube, you can see we can actually move
this cube around in the level, okay? Whereas this object right here
is completely static, okay? So you can see those mobility
options have to do with, you know, the object's mobility. You also have things like the mesh. So under here we have the static
mesh basically a static mesh is an object That doesn't change. We'll talk more about this later on. Basically static meshes can be
things like rocks, crates, can be just different props in your level. You can actually change the static
mesh and choose a different static mesh by hitting this little drop down. And you can see we have all these
other different types of objects. Now below that we have
things like materials. So we can actually change
the color of this cube. So currently we have this blue
material applied to this cube. If I hit this little drop down I can
actually change the color of the cube. So you can see we have
this light blue color. So if I select that you can now see
our cube change to that new color. And we can go ahead and reset it
by hitting that little reset arrow. Now we'll go ahead and reset
it to that darker blue color. Okay, we also have some other different
additional details things like physics So you remember earlier I can move this
cube around That's because we have this simulate physics set to true Lastly, we
have some other different settings and options down here, things like collision. Now this is very useful for when you're
making games, because it's going to be very common that you're going to
be playing around with the collisions, especially if you're making a game. And this is basically where you change
things like the collision settings. Okay, there's more additional
details down here, I'm not going to go over every single detail. In here, but just note that
there are, you know, a lot more different details you can change. Those are just the basics. Again, if you select different
objects in your scene, that will show you different details depending
on the object you have selected. So again, the ramp. Shows us that it is this ramp mesh. It shows us things like the
location, the rotation, the material, and all that stuff, okay? So that is the details panel. Now the last UI that I want to talk
about is this bottom bar down here, okay? So let's go ahead and move
from the left to the right. So over here on the left,
we have this content drawer. So if you click on this, this will
actually pop open This content drawer window now, let's go ahead and talk
about this little window because you will be using it quite often So first
of all, this window can pop open and hide So if I click right click back in
my viewport, it will hide that little content drawer So I click back in it. It will show it if I right click
in my viewport and move around it will hide it You can also do
ctrl spacebar to hide or show it. So just do control space bar. We'll go ahead and hide or
show the content drawer. Okay. Another nice thing that I like to do
usually when I'm working with the content drawer is I like to click this little
dock in layout and this will come very handy as I will show you here in a second. But basically this is the content browser. Or the content drawer. And this is where you can import 3d
assets, sounds, textures, models, materials, you can import all
those assets into this browser and you can bring it into your level. So first things first over
here on the left, we have the folder directory of our project. So you can see, we have
this content folder. We have things like
characters, level prototyping. Starter Content. Let's actually go into this
Starter Content folder. And as you select these different
folders, you can see over here on the right, we can see all these subfolders
inside of that Starter Content folder. Okay? So in this folder, we have different
things like Materials, Maps, Props. So go ahead and actually
open up the Props folder. And now inside of the Props folder,
you're going to notice A couple of different props that we have because
of the starter content that we added. So we have things like this chair, this
couch, and let's actually go ahead and bring some of this stuff into our level. So the neat thing about the
content browser is you can drag an object from the content browser
and drag it into the level. And now we'll go ahead and
drag and drop the object into. Your level or your scene. So it's very simple as selecting
the object that you want to add and just dragging and
dropping it into your viewport. Okay? So we can add things
like this little door. We have things like this
little statue there. We have this little bush. And there's just different objects that
you can play around with and you can drag into your level by just dragging it
from the content browser into your scene. Okay? Now to navigate in the content browser,
you can go back by either clicking on the folders over here, or you can
navigate by going through the different folders up here if you need to go back. Okay. You also have things like filters,
so you can see I already have a couple of different filters. You may not have any filters in here, but
basically if you hit this little three lines icon, this will allow us to filter. our content browser by certain assets. So for example, if you don't have any
filters, this is what it will look like. But if I want to filter my assets
in my content browser by say static meshes, if I click on this little icon
here, I can filter it by static mesh. And now you're going to see
all of these static meshes inside of our content folder. You can see we have all the different
props, we have all these different walls, cubes, and all that stuff,
and all these basic shapes, okay? And that will show us the filter
right over here on the left, and I can toggle on or off that filter. So if I select that, or deselect it,
you can see that disables the filter. If I reselect it, that will
enable the filter, okay? So we're only seeing
static meshes or props. From our content browser, so those are
the filters and those are just the basics of our content browser And you could
even add your own custom content To your project through the content browser by
dragging and importing your own custom 3d assets You can do things like importing
characters Sounds textures all that stuff by just dragging it into your content
folder now Let's actually take a moment to talk about how to create folders and
organize content in the content browser So to create a new folder in your content
browser, you just right click Anywhere inside of it and you're going to see
we have this menu Pop up and basically we have a couple of different options. So I'm going to go down the list So the
first thing that we have here is we have imports to games so it can import some
assets directly into our content folder We can add a feature or content pack. So if you click on this You can see
you can actually add any of these content packs to this project. So for example, say I want some of the
assets from the virtual reality template. I can add it to my current project. Okay, so you can add content,
or if you go over to the content itself, this tab over here. Let's say you forgot to
add the starter content. You can add it to your
project through here. Okay, so if you forget to add content and
always come back and add content through that now below that we have Quixel bridge
Which is also another place that you can get free assets from and I'll cover that
here in a bit And then we have the create a new folder and then down below it. We have basic assets and then
advanced assets Okay, so we're gonna go over these different asset types. But first, let's go ahead and just
create ourselves a new folder So under the folder we can create a new folder
And then you can see we can just rename this folder to test folder. And if you double click and open that
up, you'll open up the folder and you can right click, create another folder. Basically that's how you can organize
content inside of your content browser. Okay. Now for the different types of assets. If you right click, you're going
to see there are many different types of assets in Unreal Engine. So we first have the basic asset types,
which are things like blueprint classes, levels, materials, this Niagara system. And then below it, we have some
more different advanced asset types. So if you hover over any of these
different categories, you're going to see that we have more
different asset types down here. Now, a lot of this stuff, you
don't really have to know. What each and every single asset does,
but I'm going to cover some of the basic types of assets that we have. And in fact, we can do that by
going to our content folder and opening up our starter content. So if you go into the content
starter content folder, let's go into first the architecture folder. So you're going to see that
we have these different props. So like this floor,
wall, wall with a door. So these are all static meshes. So that's the type of asset that this is. Again, a static mesh is. a prop or an object that is static. It doesn't move. So this can be anything like, for
example, some of the objects that we have here in the level, like
this chair, this bush, this window frame, these are all static meshes. And you can notice that these are
static mesh assets because it says. for one static mesh at
the very bottom there. You can also see that it's color coded. So it has this blue line right here
and that means it's a static mesh. Okay. So each asset type is color coded
with a different color and you'll become familiar with all the
different asset types as time goes on. So those are static meshes. Next up, if you go back into the
starter content folder, we have audio. So you can see we have
things like sound waves. So if you play these, these
are just basic sound files. And you can see the name of the asset. So it's a sound wave. And then you can see the color. Of that asset type. Okay, so that's audio. We can go into blueprints for blueprints
You can see it also has a different color We have sort of this darker blue
color for the asset and then you can see it's a blueprint class right below it
Okay, now we're gonna cover blueprints at the very end of this video But
right now we're just focusing on the different types of assets that you will
find inside of Unreal Engine based on The name down here and the color code. Next up we have HDRI. So you can see this is a texture cube. You can see the name of it, and then
you can see the color code of that file. Next to that we have maps because
you can see they are in this yellow or orange color, and you can
see it says level at the bottom. Okay. So just getting used to. The different asset types will help you
distinguish what type of files are which, specifically in the content browser. Now next to the maps we have materials,
so if you double click that, you can see that these are all material assets. Because of, again it says
material at the bottom. It has that little green color code,
so we know that these are materials. And you can see that we have a
little preview of the material with this little sphere. That shows what type of material it is. Okay. So if you look in here, we
have things like gold, metal, rock, and all that stuff. Now we've gone over materials a little
bit so far, but to apply any material to an object, say if I wanted to make
this chair right here, completely gold, we have this M metal gold material. And to apply any material to an
object in your level, what you can do is you can just drag this material. And drop it onto that object, okay? There's that way, there's also
another way that you can do it by using the details panel. So if you look in the details
panel, we have this chair selected. And it shows us the material that's
been assigned or the material that we just assigned it to. Now one thing to note is
we can always reset it. So if I hit this reset arrow, it's
going to reset it to the default chair texture or material, okay? And I can also drag in this gold
material into this material slot. That will also have the same
effect of changing the material as if I were to drag and drop it
onto the object like this, okay. So again, we can reset it. So you can test this out with
all the different material types. We have things like rock material. You have things like wood. So you can mess around with all
the materials and just apply it to random objects in the level
just to get more familiar with it. Now another neat feature about the
Content Browser and about Unreal Engine is you're going to notice this icon a lot. Especially when working
with the Content Browser. So this little icon right here. So if you have this chair selected you're
going to notice we have this little... Folder magnifying glass icon. So again, this is going to be
everywhere in Unreal Engine. You can see the static mesh has
that little icon right there. So if you click on that icon for
the chair, it's going to browse to that asset into the content browser. So this is very useful because say I
want to find where this material is at. If I click that little browse icon,
it will pull up the folder that has the material for that chair. So this is super useful because,
say I want to modify this door, I can select it, and then I can click
on the little browse icon and find it exactly in the content browser. So you're going to see that little
icon quite a bit throughout the engine. And basically that's what it does. You can browse to it quickly into your
content browser where it's stored. Okay, so let's go back
to our starter content. So we were just covering some
of the different asset types. So we're in the materials folder. Let's go back and go over to the
next folder where we have particles. So you can see these are. Particle Effects, Cascade Particle
System, these are actually some older particles, but you can see we have
things like Fire, Smoke, and Explosion. Now if we go back we have things like
Props, so if you go into the Props folder, again these are all Static Meshes. So you can see the Static Mesh
asset name, as well as the color code is that bright blue color. Okay, and when we exit out of
there we also have Shapes, again. More static mesh assets and then go
back and lastly we have textures. So if you open that up, you can see These
are all different 2d textures So you can see it has the name texture at the very
bottom and we have this red color code for the assets Okay, so those are all the
basic asset types like I said, there's a lot more asset types if you right click
you can see there's a whole lot more different asset types and you can look at
all the different Names and color codes of them and just over time after you use
the engine You'll start to learn what some of these other assets are used for. So those are all the basic asset types
Let's quickly talk about the content browser again and how you can actually
Organize content So we briefly went over how to create new folders now
to organize content if we go into our props folder You can actually move
around assets To different folders. So this is very intuitive So for example,
if I right click and create a new folder in here, I can name this to my props And
then I could select this chair mesh and move it into that folder So if I drag and
drop it onto that folder, it'll give us a couple options We can do move here copy
here or advanced copy here I'm going to do move here, and that will go ahead and
move that asset into this My Props folder. So it's very intuitive where you can
drag and drop files, and move it around and organize it in your content browser. Now if you wanted to move this back out
of this folder, one way that you can do that is through this project directory
over here, or through the hierarchy. So if I were to take this chair
and move it back into my main props folder, if I drag and drop it
right there, I can click move here. And now if I go back to our
props, you can see that I moved the chair outside of that folder. Okay, so it's very intuitive
how you can move and manage your assets in the content browser. So the same thing goes
for deleting assets. If I select this window frame, if I
click delete, it will give us actually a couple of different options. Now whenever you delete an asset
that is placed in a level or that is actually used, it's going to pop
up with this little warning, okay? Because you're actually using the asset. So for example, I have this window frame. Because I have that dragged into my
level, if I select it in the content browser and try to delete it, it's
going to pop up with this warning. Some of the assets being deleted
are still referenced in memory. So Unreal Engine doesn't like
this when you try to delete stuff, and you're still using it. Now one way that you can fix
that is you can actually go ahead and delete this from the level. So if I select that and delete it,
and if I do file, save all, I can go back to my content browser, select
that window frame, and click delete. You can see it's still referenced, so
you can either replace it with another asset, or you can do force delete. Sometimes replacing the reference is
better than doing force delete, because like I said, Unreal Engine doesn't like it
when you delete stuff that is referenced. But I'm just going to do force
delete just to show you what happens. So then, now you can see that it's
deleted from our content browser. And that's basically how
you can delete content. From being inside of your content browser. Now there's no way to undo that. So if you do delete something from
the content browser, there's no way to actually get back that asset. So just keep that in mind. So those are the content browser basics. Now let's actually go ahead
and cover how you can get. Third party assets and props,
whether that be through the unreal engine marketplace or another
useful tool called Quixel bridge. So first let's cover the
unreal engine marketplace. So if you open up the Epic games
launcher, you want to head over to the unreal engine marketplace, right over
here at the top, we can go ahead and add our first asset pack to our project. So for example, we can go
ahead and find an asset pack. So for me, we're going
to use a free asset pack. So if you click on the free up
here, we can hit this little drop down and go to Epic Games content. Now this will show us all the
free assets from Epic Games. And you can go through the different
pages, go to the next page, and browse all the free assets that they have. Another thing that you can do is you can
go to free, you can see that there is. other different categories. You have things like mega scans, free for
the month, permanently free collection. So if we click on permanently
free collection, these are assets that are Permanently free, meaning
that they will be free forever. So you can use them for your
projects or whatever you're doing inside of the engine. Okay. Now to actually go ahead and add
one of these asset packs to your project, let's say I want to go ahead
and add this free furniture pack. So if you click on it here,
you can also search for it. If you type in free furniture pack,
you can see that it'll pop up right here so you can navigate to it. So as you can see, there are some
free furniture assets in this pack. Let's go ahead and actually
add this to our project. So to add Marketplace content
to your project, you just click. If it's free, you can click on this free
button or you can add it to your cart. Either way will work. If you click on the free button,
it will go ahead and take a second. I'll say unavailable. Just give it a second. And then it should say add to project. So there's a couple things that you
need to note when adding Marketplace content specifically to your project. You should note the supported
platforms, which platforms it supports, and more importantly you should
note the supported engine versions. Okay, this is very important. Now currently you can see that
this supports Unreal Engine 4. 18 all the way to 4. 27. And it also supports Unreal Engine 5. 0 all the way to 5. 3. Now I will show you what
happens if you add a... asset pack that's not supported
for the version that you're using. But right now you can see that
this pack is supported for 5. 3, so we shouldn't have any issues
with it when we add it to our project. So let's go ahead and
add it to our project. So you click on this add to project
button, and then it will show you all the different projects that you have. Now I currently have a
couple of different projects. Now what I want to do is I want to
search for the name of my project, or in your case it might be the
only project that you have in here. So I searched my first project. I'm going to select my project and
just click the add to project button. Okay, so that will go ahead and start
downloading and Installing that pack to our project from the unreal engine
marketplace Now if we go ahead and minimize this now if we go back to
our project, we should notice a new folder in our content So if you go
back to your content folder, we should now have a new folder for this free
furniture pack So if you double click and open that up, you can see we have
More different folders inside of it. Things like blueprints, maps,
materials, meshes, textures. So let's go ahead and look
at the furniture pack. So I know that the
furniture assets are props. And therefore they should
be in the meshes folder. So I double click and open that up. You can see that we have all the
different meshes in this folder. Okay. So we can scroll through them and see
all the different props that we have. We have things like these leather couches. I'm going to drag and drop
it into our level here. We have things like this bed
mesh, some chair, and these are just some nice high quality props
that you can use in your project. Okay? So that is how you can add Marketplace
content into your project from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Now there's one other way that you
can actually add Marketplace content, and that is through your vault. So if you head over to your library
tab, if you scroll all the way down to your vault, you can also add
marketplace assets that you've either claimed or you've purchased from
the marketplace through your vault. So for example, if I wanted to search
for that furniture pack, You can see I have that free furniture pack. I can add it to my project from this menu. Okay. So that's also another way that you
can add assets to your project and the vaults will show you all the
assets that you owned, whether you purchase them or if you claim them
when they were free for the month. Okay. Now let's cover how to add
marketplace assets that are outdated. So in the marketplace tab, we're going
to search for an outdated product. So I know that this. Product is outdated. So you can just search for it as well. So if you search for a military weapon
and Filter by free so you see under the max price you can click on this free
You're gonna see that we have these two different packs here or actually three
different packs Yeah, if I click on this military weapons dark You can see this
is a game asset pack that has all these different, uh, weapons that we could
use for, say, if we're making something like a first person shooter game. But right now the main thing I want to
focus on is the supported engine versions. So as you can see, it's 4. 4. All the way to 4. 27, so we don't have any Unreal Engine
5 versions that are actually supported. Now if I wanted to add this to my project,
I could still add it even though it's not supported for that project version. Now the way that I'd go about doing that
is I would click on this add to project. Right now you're going to see that it only
shows the projects that are supported. So it might not even show you
any projects because you might not have Unreal Engine 4. Because I have Unreal Engine 4 installed,
you can see these are the projects that I have for Unreal Engine 4. But to add it to our Unreal
Engine 5 project, you want to click on Show All Projects, okay? That's going to show all
the projects that you have. I'm going to search for my first project. And then we're going to see it right here. So if I actually go ahead and select
it, you're going to see that we have this red message down here. Asset not compatible with version 5. 3. Please select the closest
alternative version. And you can see that the add to
project button is grayed out. So what we have to do is select
the closest alternative version so that we can add it to this project. So to do that, you want
to select the version. That is the closest to unreligion 5. 3 in our case, 4. 27 is the closest version because
it goes from the lowest all the way up to the highest version. So this is the closest
version that we have to 5. 3. So I'm going to click on that and
then now we can actually go ahead and click on this, add to project. So now if we click on that, you
can see that as downloading, installing and adding it to our 5. 3 project. Even though the supported versions
are only in Unreal Engine 4. Okay, so now if we go back to our
project folder, go to our content folder, we should see a new folder
in here for our Military Weapon Dark. So we can double click and open that up. You can see we have a couple of
different folders in here, and we have this weapons folder. If I double click and open that up, You
can see we have a bunch of different file types, but you can see we have all
those different weapon props that we saw from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. Okay, so that is how you could add content
that isn't supported for that project. I think that is a bit of information
that is useful because even though a lot of assets on the Marketplace,
especially free assets, haven't been updated, you can still use them
in newer versions of the engine. Now, that isn't to say that you will
have some issues with Older assets. So keep in mind if you are going
to be purchasing actual marketplace assets, I will not purchase an
asset that hasn't been updated. To that unreal engine version, just
because you're spending money on a product, the person who is updating
that asset pack should have it updated and should keep it maintained. Really? I only follow this rule for
things like free assets. Okay. So that is how you can add assets
from the unreal engine marketplace. Now let's talk about Quixel bridge. So Quixel Bridge is a free asset
library of over 10, 000 plus assets that you can use inside of Unreal Engine. It's built directly into the
engine, and these are very high quality photorealistic assets. So to access Quixel Bridge, you want
to go to this cube plus icon, if you click this little drop down, and
we have this Quixel Bridge option. So if you click on that, it will
go ahead and open up Quixel Bridge. You can see Windows Firewall
has blocked some features. I'm gonna click allow access and then
we have the actual Quixel bridge window right here Okay, so you can see I can
move this window around you can even dock this window up here So if I take
this window, I can actually dock it up at the top here So you can see I
can switch between the bridge window and also our third person map window. Okay. So in here, this is Quixel bridge. So you can see, we have search
14, 543 assets, but that's the total amount of assets that
are free here on Quixel bridge. So if you scroll through all of
this, you can see all of the free high quality assets that you can
use in your projects for free. As long as you're using
Unreal Engine, okay? Now what we need to do right off
the bat is we should actually go ahead and sign in to Quixel Bridge. So you actually need to sign
in if you want to add any of these assets to your project. Otherwise, it's not going
to show them as free. So for example, if I were to click
on this mossy boulder right here, you can see it wants us to sign in
before we can actually do anything. So you can click on this
little profile icon up here. And click sign in. And it will ask you to log in. And I would just recommend logging
in with your Epic Games account. That way all of the stuff will be
linked to your Epic Games account. And you can claim any
of the assets for free. So I'm going to go ahead and
click sign in with Epic Games. Okay, and then now I should be signed in. So now I'm actually signed in. So now if I were to click
on this mossy boulder. You can see I now have this download icon
because I'm signed in to Quixel Bridge. Okay, so let's actually talk about
the assets here on Quixel Bridge. Now first up, whenever you open up
Quixel Bridge, you're going to notice we have this little banner image. This will show you a new free asset
collection whenever they update or add something new to Quixel Bridge. So you can go to the collection. And you can see that it's a collection
of related assets to a specific theme. In this case, this is old workshop tools. So you can see all the
high quality assets. Now, these are all photo scan
assets, which means that these are all real world objects that the
team over at Epic and Quixel Bridge. Have gone ahead and scanned
these objects, okay? So that type of process is where they
take very high resolution cameras and they capture every single angle around
the object So you can get a very high quality Lifelike scan which is why all
of these assets you can look at them. They all look like a real world objects
Because they are all photo scan assets. They're very high quality. Now. This is The old workshop collection,
we can go ahead and back out of it, so if you look at the search bar, you
can click on this little X, and that will bring us back to the homepage. You can also click on the homepage
through here, and we also have a way that we can navigate through Quixel Bridge. Over here on the left so we can filter by
3d assets So if you click on 3d assets, this will show you all the different props
that we have on Quixel bridge So we have different categories things like buildings
food items historical industrial nature props all sorts of stuff so we can scroll
through All the different objects here and see what type of items that we have
now say you find a particular item that you want to add to your project like for
example say I want to add this loaf of bread so I click on it you can see we have
the preview image of it very high quality 3d scan they also have a size comparison
so you can see how big the object is or how big the scale is and This applies to
any object that you have selected so I can select this electrical box And you
can see the size right there, and this is especially helpful for things like
rocks So if I select this mossy boulder you see how big that rock is You select
this rocky moss shelf, and you can see exact size also another thing is You
can see related assets, so this is very helpful because say I want to add like
some sort of bakery scene in my level. I'm going to see all of
the other different assets related to this loaf of bread. Okay, so we have things like donuts. These are all very high quality. Photoscan assets. Okay. So say I actually want to add this donut
You have a couple of different options for downloading and adding it to your
project So down here we have different quality settings So we have low quality
medium quality and high quality now another thing to note is they also have an
additional Setting called nanite quality. So let me select a different object
because it's not really good example So I look for this a mossy boulder. If I click the drop down we have now
those four different option types So I have low, medium, high, and then nanite. So depending on your computer
specs, it really depends on what type of computer you have. You want to select the appropriate
quality for this asset. Now whether that be low,
medium, or high quality. Now with the nanite quality, this
is the absolute maximum quality. Basically if you select this
nanite option, that is... Essentially the raw 3D
scanned object in the scene. And I'm going to show you what Nanite is. It's actually one of Unreal Engine
5's flagship features, which allows you to have raw 3D scanned assets with
very high detail running in real time. In your scene, so I'm going to select
a nanite and then I can actually click download and it's going to
go ahead and download the asset. So we'll give it a couple of seconds for
it to download and then now that it's downloaded, I can click on this add icon. So click the little plus icon. It will take us back to our project. It will actually pull up in
our content browser where that mossy boulder has been added. Okay. So you can actually see that it created
a new folder in our content browser called content mega scans 3d assets Mossy
boulder, so we have a couple of different asset types so you can see we have this
material instance We have this static mesh, which is the actual rock prop and
then we have these three textures Okay So let's go ahead and drag in our mossy
boulder into our scene So if we select the static mesh and drag and drop it
You're going to see that we have this very high quality mossy boulder, okay? And so this is what I was talking
about earlier with the nanite. Quality of mesh. I actually closed my content browser So
I can have a bigger viewports as you can see is a very high quality mesh Where
you can see all the little details and it's basically just a raw 3d scan of
this object okay, and just to show you how much detail this has I can switch
my view mode so over into the LIT, in the view mode, I can switch this from
LIT to wireframe, and you can see all of the little triangles that comprise
this very high detailed model, okay? So this is what the Nanite Mesh has
to offer inside of Unreal Engine, and mostly all of the assets on Quixel
Bridge, especially things like the rocks. Have that option for Nanite quality if you
want that maximum quality in your scene. This is very useful for creating
things like cinematics because you can get the maximum quality out
of all the assets in your scene. But you can also even make games with
this because this all works in real time. So that is Quixel Bridge asset types. Now one thing I want to cover is you can
actually move and undock this window. And so if we undock the window
from our main tab up there, I can resize this window. I could even snap this window
anywhere in the editor. So you can actually go ahead and
customize the look of your editor. And say I want to drag it and drop
it right here next to my details. I can even put the
window side by side here. And a neat feature about this is if I
have my window out, Like this or docked in there say I want to add a different
asset say this mossy rock shelf If I just drag and drop it I can actually
drag and drop the mesh Directly from Quixel bridge into our level now. We're going to notice. This is a very low quality asset And that
is because it will drag in a preview mesh while the actual asset is downloading
So this is actually a preview mesh. And so now you can see that
it's finished downloading. And now we have the actual
very high detailed Nanite mesh. Okay. So this is very nice, useful tool
because, say I want to go ahead and download another different asset type. Maybe this beach rock shelf. I can drag and drop it. And again, you're going to see that it
downloads this little preview of the mesh. I can move around. Scale around. And while we're waiting for it, it's
still downloading in the background. And when it's finished downloading,
it'll swap out that preview mesh for the actual high quality mesh. Okay? So now you can see that it swapped it out. We have this very high
detailed Nanite mesh. Now, I think the materials
on this are a little bit off. So you can see this is pretty
much like this charcoal black. Whereas this is sort of
like this gray color. So if we wanted to customize that
material, I'm going to go ahead and dock my bridge up here at the top. I'm actually going to select this
mesh and say, I want to actually customize the color of this rock. So if you select it in the details
panel, we're going to use the materials and the materials are what
you can actually use to customize the color and texture of an asset. So if I click this browse icon to this
beach material, And we'll go ahead and pull up in our content browser
where that material is located. If I double click and open this up,
this will actually pull up a brand new window that we are unacquainted with,
which I will explain to you very briefly. So this little window is sort
of like our material preview. So you can see, we have a little. Sphere or a little ball that
shows us the material and texture. And then over on the right, we have this
details panel where you can see we have all these little checkbox and settings. Now, without getting too in depth about
all of this stuff, we just want to change the simple color of this material. Now the neat thing about all
the mega scans assets is all the materials have these same settings. So you can change the color on any
of the materials that you have. So if I click on this albedo
tent, I had the little check box that will allow us to change the
actual color of our rock material. So if I select this little white box right
here, it'll actually pull up this color picker where we can now pick a different
color that we want to set this rock to. So say we wanted to change the tint of the
rock to maybe be sort of this tan tint. I can click okay. I can click this little save
icon and now you can see that we can actually change the color. By just changing that albedo tint
to a different color tint, okay? Now getting back to Quixel Bridge, those
are basically the methods that you can download and add assets to your project. Whether that be selecting an object,
downloading it, and adding it manually. Or whether you drag and drop it from
the Bridge window into your scene. That is basically the process of
adding assets through Quixel Bridge. And you can even close out
of the Quixel Bridge window. And if you want to get back to
it, you can always navigate to it by clicking the Q plus icon and
reopening up the Quixel Bridge window. Okay, now I'm going to go ahead
and delete all these assets real quickly from our scene. So select and delete those. Now I kind of want to pivot this
and talk about all the different sub editors inside of Unreal Engine. Mainly things like static
meshes and materials. So let's go ahead and talk
about the different sub editors. So if you go to your content
drawer here, we can go ahead and dock it back in our layout. So if you click the dock in layout,
that will go ahead and dock our content browser right back here. So if you go to your content folder
and if we go into our starter content, let's go into the props folder. So go to starter content props. You can see that we have all
those different props that we were messing around with earlier. Now, if you haven't noticed
already, you can actually double click and open up these props. In a new window, so I double click
this static mesh chair, I double click it will actually open up a separate
window where we can see that prop. Okay, now this window, you can actually
take it and dock it here at the top, which is what I usually like to do
whenever I open up an object like that. I usually take this window and dock
it up here at the top, and again, you can switch between the two windows. Okay, so let's actually talk
about this sub editor, which is the static mesh preview window. Okay, so whenever you have a static mesh
in your content browser You can double click and open it up and that will bring
you to this window or to the sub editor now inside of here Let's go ahead and talk
about the user interface real quickly So in the center we have the viewport which
is very similar to the viewport that we have in our main Window over here. You can see that it has
sort of the same options. So we have perspective lit show
You also have some of the other options over here But as you
can see, we can't really Modify. Scale or rotate this mesh inside of
here But we also have things like the camera speed and that's very useful
because say I wanted to look and inspect this object really closely You can go
in and change the camera speed so we can get a little bit more control over
the camera Okay, you can also see a couple of different stats about this
model things like how many triangles it has Vertices and all that stuff. So just some other useful information
about this mesh Now this is the viewport We also have over
here on the right the details. Now this is very similar to
the details that you'll find Inside of the main window here. So if I were to select this chair
in the details We're gonna see sort of the same details that we
see in the static mesh window. Okay? We have things like the materials. You also have things like Nanite. If we want to enable Nanite for the
mesh, I'll explain more in depth what Nanite is towards the end of the video. Then down below it, we have a lot more. Other different settings. Okay. Now the main thing you will be using
the static mesh editor window for is for Changing things like the default material
so you can change the material itself And also if you're using this prop or if
you're using the engine for making games Chances are you will be coming to this
menu to change things like the collision settings Okay, so the main two things are
the materials and collision settings in here So let's talk about the materials
real quickly So just like if you were to change the materials in the details, you
can do it in the details panel right here. Now, if we were to change the
materials over here in the static mesh window, that will actually change the
default materials for this object. For example, if I hit this little
dropdown, I can set this material to our M underscore chrome. Now we'll change it to this
completely chrome chair. Now, if I hit save, if I go back into
my third person map, you can see that. Any of the objects that we have placed in
our level now have this chrome material because we're affecting that default
material inside of the static mesh window. Okay? So now if I were to drag in this SM
chair, you can see that it now has that default material applied to it. If I drag in more of these, you can
see it's now that chrome material. Okay? So that is how you can change the
default material on a prop or object. By going into that static mesh
editor window and changing the material through here. I'm going to change it back to
the M underscore chair material. Save that and it will go ahead and
update the material in our level. Okay, so that is the static
mesh Editor window a very common sub editor of the engine. So again, you can open up things like
the table Now we'll pull it up in that window and open up things like the Bush
and that's how you would change things like the default material and also
things like collision settings Okay Now there's many different sub editors
inside of Unreal Engine and you're gonna notice this whenever you double click
on an asset It has its own sub editor. So if I go back to our starter content
Let's go into the textures folder If I double click any of the textures So I, I
double click on this brick clay texture, you can see that it has sort of this
own window that it pops up with where it shows us the actual texture, some of the
details and different types of settings. Okay. So there's many different sub
editors within the engine. Now don't let that overwhelm
you because most of this stuff will just come with time. Now the very last thing that I want
to cover or the last sub editor that I want to cover is the material editor. So if I go into our materials folder, We
have all these basic materials over here. So, for example, let's say I want to
open up this M basic floor material. Okay, a very simple material. Let's double click open that up. You're going to see that we have,
again, this new sort of window that you've never seen before. So if I take this window and
dock it up here at the top. We can actually see it full screen. So this is the material editor. Okay. So again, this is a sub editor within
the engine where we can do things like create our own materials so that we
can apply it to objects in our scene. So let's really quickly
explain the material editor. So over here we have our viewport. So again, this is a very simple viewport. You can't actually move in the
viewport here, but if you hold the left mouse button, you can rotate around. The sphere. The sphere is a preview of
the material that we have. In our case, it's very
basic floor material. You can hold the left mouse
button to rotate around. You can hold the right mouse
button to zoom in and out. We have our basic perspective,
lit, and show modes right here. And then down in the bottom right,
you're going to notice we have these different shape previews. So I can click on this. We can change it to a cylinder. We can change it back to a sphere. We have this simple. panel. Then we have a cube that we can
also preview the material on. Okay. We also have this last thing right here. And basically this allows us
to preview the material on a mesh that we have selected. So what that means is I
go to my content browser. If I go to one of my props folders, have
I got the props folder and maybe say I select this chair and go back into the
material and click on that little icon. And that will show us the
material on this custom mesh. So right now we have
this checkered material. And I think it's having trouble
applying the material to the object. So I'm going to switch it
back to our little sphere. And then if you switch it back over,
you can see that we now have that material applied onto that chair. This is because we have that
chair selected in the browser. You can have it as a prop to
preview the material on it. So that is the viewport. Down below it, we have
things like the details. So again, just like any other details
panel, we have different settings that will change our material. And then over here in the
center, we have the graph, okay? So you can notice it by
this little grid pattern. This is basically the graph. And to move around in the graph, you can
scroll with your mouse wheel in and out. To zoom in and out, and then if
you hold your right mouse button, that's how you can pan around, okay? So scroll in and out and right
mouse button to pan around. So this is the graph and currently
you can see we have a couple of different nodes on the graph, okay? So these are different nodes, and you
see we have these little wires that are connecting the nodes together. And that's really all that a simple
material is comprised of, are nodes and wires that are connecting them together. Okay, so you can see we have things like
this color material and in fact I could even change the color of this material
if I double click on this color node So I double click on this color node. You can see it brings up
that color picker window. So I change the color Say
like this green color click. Okay. Now you can see our Material is now green. Okay, so this little color
node changes the color of our material and we can really change
this So we want this dark blue. Now if I hit save, it will go
ahead and save that material. I go back to my third person map. Let's go back to that material. There's two different ways
we can find that material. Say if we go back into the starter
content materials, that's one way. If you go back to the material window,
you can see that we have that browse icon. So we have that folder browse icon. If you click on that, it will browse. to that material in the content browser. So a lot of these sub editors
will have that button. It's very useful to quickly go back and
find the assets in the content browser. So now we can see that material,
that blue, dark blue material that we just changed and updated. If I wanted to apply this material
again, I could drag and drop it. Now we'll go ahead and set
that object's material. To that new blue color
that we just created. Okay, so that is the material sub editor. Let's actually cover how to make
a brand new material from scratch. So if we go back to our starter content
materials, say we want to actually go back and create our own folder. So in our starter content, let's
right click, create a new folder. And we'll name this to My Materials. If we double click that, we
can create our own materials. So if you right click, this will bring
up The asset creation window or tab where it can create basic assets. So we have things like our
blueprints, levels, materials. So in our case, we want to
create a basic material. So let's select that. You can see that it now adds that
asset to our content browser. And now we can go ahead and rename this. So whenever you're naming materials,
you want to do a M underscore. Because that is for the naming
convention of materials. You'll always have a M in the front. Just for organization, that way
you know that this is a material. And then you can have after
that the name of the material. So I'm going to name this
to My First Material. So we should have our M
underscore My First Material. Okay. So if I double click and open
this up, it will bring us to that. Material sub editor. And again, I can take this window
and dock it up here at the top. Okay. Now in the graph, I can again,
right click in the zoom in and out. Now, because this is a brand new material,
we're not going to see any nodes here on the graph, or we have this very basic
main node right here, but you can see, we don't have any of those color nodes. and wires hooked up here on the graph. And you can also see that
our material over here on the preview is just this dark color. Okay. Now to go ahead and create our very
first material, we're going to add a simple color node, the same node
that we were using in the other material and hook it up so we can
change the color of this material. So if you right click anywhere on
the graph, you're going to see, we have this search option and I'll
bring us a bunch of different. things that we can add in here. Now we just want to add a color. So for color, I want to search for
constant and we have constants and we want to choose the constant vector three. Okay. Now there's a lot of different
nodes and different material nodes. And if you want to go more in depth
into materials, there are different types of nodes that do different sort of
things, but this constant vector three. This is what allows us to choose
and assign a color to our material. So you can see that we have our
little black box right here. So if I double click that, that will pull
up our color picker that we saw earlier. So I could change this to say that
green color, but it's not affecting our material in our preview window. And that's because we need to hook this
up to our material node right here so that I can go ahead and apply this color. To our material. So the way that we do that is through
those wires So if you see we have all these different pins right here We
have this white pin red pin green pin and blue pin now We want to take this
white pin and plug it into this base color okay, and now you're gonna see
that it applies that material color the green color to our material because
We have this color node, and this wire that's connecting it to the base color. So the base color affects, obviously,
the base color of the material. And then we can go ahead and change
it to whatever color that we want it. So we can go ahead and save that. And now if I close out of there, you
can see that we now have our first material that we've ever created. And again, we can go ahead and
apply it to random objects. So I accidentally applied
it to the floor there. I want to go ahead and
select that and undo it. So I'll go ahead and reset that. I just want to apply
it for the chairs here. Okay. So again, that's just the basics
of some of the sub editors within the engine, things like the
static meshes and material editor. As you continue learning, you will
learn more about some of the other different nodes and how to create
more advanced types of materials. Okay. So we've covered over the sub
editors inside the engine. Like I said, there are more different
types of sub editors that you will find if you just click on different
assets in your content browser. Now, the last sub editor that I
want to talk about in this video are blueprints, or the blueprint sub editor. So, blueprints are the visual
scripting system of Unreal Engine. And basically, It allows you to
create things like tools, games, and all sorts of different things. In fact, we have a couple of
different examples of blueprints. So if you go into the content, starter
content, we have a folder for blueprints, and these are blueprint assets because
we have The blueprint class at the very bottom and you can see that they are color
coded with this blue dark blue color So we have this blueprint ceiling light. Let's go ahead and drag this
into our level Let's go ahead and move this up so you can see that. This is A light blueprint, so if I go
ahead and let me actually move this closer to the wall so we can actually see the
light because it's kind of hard with the time of day here, we can actually
change the lighting settings of this blueprint and it will change the lights
of this little lamp that is emitting. So if you look in the details, we
have this blueprint ceiling light. And underneath the settings here, we have
different settings that we can customize. And these are settings that have
been made in this blueprint. So we can change things
like the brightness. So if I increase the brightness,
you can see it increases the brightness of our lamp. I can reset it back to
the default brightness. I can also do things like
change the color and that will change the color of our light. To maybe this green color. And basically that is
the power of blueprints. You can convert certain objects to props. So for example I could have this door. I could convert that into a blueprint. And then when I would run up to the door. I could press a key on my keyboard. And that will go ahead
and open up the door. So you can create different blueprints. And they can add in certain functionality. Whether that is a tool. Like this lamp. Where we can change the
brightness and color. Or whatever. And we can move it around in our level. Or whether that be gameplay things
like for a game, we have things like a door that your player can
interact or open in the level. So let's go ahead and actually
open up this blueprint. So if you double click and open up
the blueprint, the ceiling light. This will actually pull up a brand
new window, which we can dock over here at the top, and this is
basically the Blueprint Editor, okay? Now the Blueprint Editor has a lot
of different UI elements in here. I'm going to briefly explain the
user interface, but I'm going to have a complete tutorial on how
to get started with Blueprints. It will be the follow up to this video. So I'll leave a link to it in the
description below that will cover fully in depth the blueprints how
to create them And it will create different types of blueprint examples,
but just for the sake of this video. We're going to briefly cover Blueprints
so in here, this is the blueprint editor So on the center of the editor, we have
this Graph and just like in the material graph, you can scroll in and out And
you can right click and move around. We actually have different tabs in here. So we have things like the event graph,
the construction script, and the viewport. Now if you head over to the viewport tab. You can see we have the same
sort of viewport controls that we do in our normal viewports. And we can actually move
around inside of this viewport. Now, inside of the viewport you'll
notice that we have that lamp prop. And we also, if you move all
the way down here, we have that little light, point light. So that's really all this
blueprint is made of. Is this a lamp prop? And this little point light, okay? And those little controls we were
playing around with, the color and the intensity, that's what
was controlling this little light. Now the way that they have set that
up is through a series of nodes. So if you go ahead over to the
construction script, you can see that we again have these different types of nodes,
and all these different types of wires, and that's really all that blueprint
is, is a series of different nodes. Connected by different wires to
form different type of logic. So for example, we have things like
our point light, which is this point light right here that is being set
to this brightness value that we change, which if you go back in a
third person map, if you select the ceiling light blueprint, you see, we
have things like the brightness value. So when I change that value,
basically in the blueprint graph, it's taking that value. And setting the intensity of this
point light in the blueprint. So that's really all that blueprint
is, is it's a series of these nodes. And different variables that can
change things and either be used for tools or creating things
like gameplay for making games. So let's go ahead and actually
create a brand new blueprint. So I can show you how
it works from scratch. So let's go ahead and in our
blueprints folder we'll right click create a new folder. And this will just be... My first blueprint and in that folder
we can go ahead and create our very first blueprint So let's go ahead and
right click and up here at the top. We have blueprint class create a
basic asset So I'm going to go ahead and create a new blueprint class. Now this will pop up in a whole different
window where it says pick a parent class. So these are all the different types
of blueprints that you can create. So we have things like an actor,
which is a simple object that can be placed or spawned in the world. Similar to our ceiling light, we
have things like a pawn, which is an actor that can be controlled. A character. Which is, if you're making
games, you want, you know, a character that you can play as. And we have a couple of other
different types of blueprint classes that we'll kind of just gloss over. What we want to create is
a simple actor blueprint. Go ahead and select that and create it. And now we'll go ahead and add
that asset to our content browser. And we can just... Leave that as new blueprint. Now you can go ahead and
right click rename this to BP underscore my first blueprint. So BP underscore is the
naming for blueprints. So it would be BP underscore
and the name of that blueprint. And now we can go ahead and double
click and open this up and take this and dock this up here at the top. So again, you can see we have
our viewports, the construction script, the event graph. Now if you head over to the event graph,
you see we have these different nodes. We're just going to create a
very simple blueprint that prints out Hello World to our screen. So I'm going to use this event begin play. So you can see it's currently grayed
out and that's because we don't have anything hooked up to it. So we're going to print out to the
screen a very simple Hello World. So off of this execution pin, if you drag
it, you can see we get sort of this wire. And if you drop it, it will
give you an options menu. You can also access that options
menu by right clicking on the graph. And it'll get you that same options menu. Now what we want to
type is a print string. So under the print string,
we have this print string. So if we click on that, we now
have this print string node. And in this string we have
this hello text, okay? So we can even modify the
text to say hello world. If we press enter it will
go ahead and save that text. Then we just need to connect this
node to this event begin play. Because what the event begin play does
is whenever we go ahead and hit play in our level, everything off of this
will get fired off or be executed. So off of this node we can drag
it and that will create a wire. We just need to hook that up to this node. The print string node. So now all we have to do to save this is,
you actually want to hit this compile. Because whenever you make any
changes, whenever you hook up certain nodes, you just want to hit the
compile, and then the save icon. Okay? So now we should be able to see
this hello world be printed. When we hit play But the first thing
that we need to do is we need to actually go ahead and drag this into
our level Okay for this blueprint to be fired off Same thing with our
lamp for our lamp blueprint to exist. We need to drag it into the level So
for our first blueprint, let's take that and drag it into level you can
see that there's no real visual for it It's just this little movement gizmo
because it's just an empty blueprint class So now if we hit play You can
see up in the top left, Hello World. So let me go ahead and do it again. If I hit stop and hit play,
we should see Hello World be printed off in the top left. And that is because in our blueprint,
we have that event begin play. So when the game starts, we print
off the string, Hello World. So we can even name this
to whatever, we can say MyFirstBlueprintTest. Then if we compile that and save that,
then we go back into our level and hit play, we can now see MyFirstBlueprintTest. Okay? So that's really the basics of Blueprint. It's just a series of nodes
that you can connect together. To create functionality have different
types of blueprints that you can create and then you can drag them into your
level So you can actually use them. It's useful for creating gameplay
elements things like doors lights Weapons characters, but also you can
use it to create tools if you're not going to be creating games Things like
this a light tool you can create more different Advanced blueprint tools
that can help you and assist you in whatever you're using the engine for. Now, like I said, I will have a full
blueprint for beginners tutorial. So I'll have that linked in the
description below and I'll go more in depth about blueprints and all the
different things that you can use it for. So before we end the video, there
are a couple of other things that I want to cover over things. Like I said, I would
early on in the video. So I said we would cover
over how to create. Brand new levels. So let's go ahead and do that right now. So to create a brand new level You can
go to file and you can create a new level There's that way and you can also
create a level inside of your content browser Either way will work now for us. Let's actually create it
inside of the content browser. So if you go to starter content We
have a folder for maps And in here you can see we have all sorts of different
level assets If you wanted to open up a different level you can say
double click On this minimal default. And you can see we're in
a completely new level. You can see the name of the level. Minimal Default. And you can see there's
different assets in this level. And in the Outliner. We can open up things
like the Starter Map. Which has a lot more of the different
materials and props lined up for us. So we can mess around with different
things now to create our own blank new level You can right click in
the content browser and you can see under the create basic asset. We have that level So if we click level
now, we'll go ahead and create a new map for us So we can just leave this as a
new world if I double click and open this up It's gonna ask us to save our current
level So we'll click save selected and now we're in that new level so you can
see it says new world Now as you can see this is a completely blank level,
there's no lighting inside of here. And that's what happens when
you actually create a level through the content browser. Now you can add lights and lighting
manually to this level, or you can create a new level through here. And that will go ahead and
allow you an option to create a world with the lighting setup. So actually let me show you
that before I show you how to set up the lights manually. So if we go to the File, New Level
You can see that this actually gives us different options. Whereas if we were to create it in
the content browser, it gives us that empty level with nothing in it. Okay. Now this can be useful. It just depends on what you're making, but
you can see we have different templates. We have basic and open world. So if we go to basic here, this
will create a brand new level. And it just has some basic lighting. You can see we have clouds. We have the sun, and
this basic floor, okay? Right now we created the level,
we actually need to save it. So you want to do a File, Save Current
Level As, and that will allow you to actually save the level that you have. So you want to go to Starter Content,
Maps, or wherever you want to save the map, and we're just going to
leave this as New Map, and click Save. And now we have created that new level
with all the lighting inside of it, okay? So if we wanted to go ahead and
create the lighting from scratch, there's actually a neat little
tool that allows us to do that. So if we were to open up the new world, so
this is that blank level that we created. There's actually a neat tool called the
environment light mixer, which allows us to add lighting and atmosphere
with just one click of a button. So we go to windows down here. We have this environmental light mixer. So if you open that up, This allows
us to create all those different lights by just clicking on these
buttons and adding it to our level. So we have Create Skylight, Create
Atmospheric Light, Create Sky Atmosphere. And you can see we actually
have this blue sky. We still have this void down here. So we'll continue clicking
on these next buttons. So we'll click Create Volumetric Clouds. So now we have some clouds in our scene
and lastly we'll add a height fog, okay? So now we can exit out of the environment
light mixer and basically we have a blank level now populated with some
lighting Okay, now let's actually take a second to talk about lighting And
some of the flagship features in Unreal Engine, such as Lumen and Nanite. Now chances are, if you have watched any
Unreal Engine showcase videos, chances are they have mentioned some of these
features called Nanite and Lumen, which are Unreal Engine 5's flagship features. So let's talk about Lumen first. So Lumen is the Dynamic Global
Illumination System, and basically it's what allows us to have dynamic lighting
inside of Unreal Engine as opposed to having static lighting where the lights
have to be baked manually, and they aren't dynamic, meaning they aren't real time. So, for example, the
lighting inside of our scene. As you may have already noticed,
whenever we move objects in our scene, they will dynamically cast shadows
and we don't have to re render or re bake any of the lights in our scene. Now you can also change the time of day
or the lighting in any of your levels by hitting the CTRL L on your keyboard
and that will give you this little tool. And if you just hold down CTRL and
then click L, if you hold down the CTRL key, this will allow you to move the
sunlight or the directional lights. So you can create whatever. Time of day you want and
move around the lighting. Okay, so we can put it sort of on the
horizon So it's either sort of like a Sun set or a sunrise you can move it up in the
sky so it's like a high noon and Pretty much change the direction of the lighting
and you can see lumen Reacting in real time as you can see the lights and shadows
on those volumetric clouds in real time We can even test this out in our other level. Let's actually get back to the
other level that we were in. So if you go to your content
browser, you can dock this in layout. So the third person map is
actually in a different folder. It's not in the starter content. You want to go to content, third person,
maps, and that third person map that we're in for the majority of this tutorial. So we double click, open that up. Now we're back in that level. So we can change the
lighting by hitting CTRL L. And you can see, we can set
it sort of like this sunset. And you can see all the objects in our
scene react dynamically to the lighting. Okay, we can even pull some of
these other objects out here. You can see that it casts shadows. I don't have to rebake any lights. It's all in real time. Okay. So that was the power of Lumen. The fact that you can have
realistic dynamic lighting with really natural bounce lighting. Now, the other feature I
want to cover is Nanite. Now Nanite is the other big
feature inside of Unreal Engine. which allows you to have a
very high quality meshes. We've kind of gone over it when
we were downloading that nanites rock early on in the video. So let's actually go
back to that rock mesh. So I'm going to go ahead and drag
that rock mesh into our scene. So if we go to mega scans in our content
folder, mega scans, three assets, this is how we get back to those quicksort
mega scans assets that we added. So we should have this mossy boulder. So now we can see We have
the different assets in here. This is the actual static mesh
because we know it says static mesh at the bottom there. So this is the actual rock mesh. Let's drag that into our level. And as you can see, there's a
very high detailed rock mesh. And again, nanites and lumen go hand
in hand with each other because I can rotate this rock and you can
see the lighting react dynamically. And you can see all the little
cavities and shadows that it creates. Okay, now to actually show the
nanite view of this mesh, we can go into a specific view mode. So if we go to the view mode
button, we can actually change this to nanite visualization. So if we go to overview, this
will actually give us an overview where it can show us all of
the nanite meshes in our scene. Now this has, you know, four different
windows and what we want to actually see are these triangles up here. So let's actually switch this nanite
visualization just to triangles. Okay. Now this will show us all of the
different triangles that comprise this nanite mesh and you can see there are
thousands upon thousands of tiny little triangles and that's actually what makes
it so high detailed is because of all of these tiny little triangles that create. All the little cavities and geometry,
okay, so this is a nanite mesh and Even in the scene we have another mesh in
here, which isn't as highly detailed which is this chair model Now the thing about
nanite is it actually can be enabled on any mesh inside of your scene as long as
it's a static Mesh, okay, and the reason why you'd want to enable it on things
in your scene is because it actually optimizes the mesh itself Meaning that
if I move farther away from this object, so if I scale farther away I actually
want to go into a different view mode. So let's go to our view mode switch this
over to clusters And now you can see Basically how nanite optimizes this mesh. So if I move out you can see that these
little clusters are Get larger and larger. And so this is a dynamic optimization that
will reduce the amount of triangles the farther you get away from that object. So it's a very optimized not only
for film, but also for games because you can enable Nanite on these meshes
and it will automatically optimize the mesh and remove less geometry
the farther you get away from it. Okay. So let's go back into the lit mode. Now let's talk about how to actually
enable Nanite on a mesh, because say this couch or this other chair
didn't have Nanite enabled on it. So to enable Nanite, it's
actually very simple. You want to browse to that asset. So we can hit this little browse
icon in the details panel. It will pull it up in
our, my props folder. Let's dock this in layout and
actually need to rebrowse to us. Let's hit the browse icon. That will again pull it up. So there's two different
ways to enable Nanite. You can either do it through the details
panel or you can right click this mesh. You'll see we get a couple
of different options. At the very top we have
Nanite in a checkbox. So if you just click on that
checkbox, it'll actually take a second for it to apply. So if I right click, you can
see that it's now checked. You can also open up the static mesh
preview window or editor and in the settings or in the details, you can click. Enabled Nanite support. Okay So now if I hit save here, we can
go back into that Nanite mode view mode So if we hit under the lids we can go
to Nanite visualization triangles We can see it's now using Nanite for that
mesh So Nanite is very useful because it allows you to have high quality meshes
streamed in and out whereas before without Nanite if you were trying to render This
rock with all the detail you would need pretty much a supercomputer to be able
to handle something like this Okay, so that is basically it for this video. So we went over a lot of different
things Including things like the user interface how to navigate
around the engine We've gone over the different asset types and how to
manage assets in the content browser. We covered how you can actually
get assets either from the marketplace or from Quixel Bridge. And then we've also covered some of the
different sub editors within the engine. Things like materials, static
meshes, and blueprints. So from here, you should have a
basic understanding of the engine. And again, I'll be linking some follow up
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