Unreal Engine 4

Tutorials (@brandon)

General Tutorials

• Tom Looman

  • A blog centered around UE4 tutorials - Sponsored by the Vive website as the "Unreal Engine 4 Quickstart Guide"

• Reddit/Youtube

  • One of the comments on the linked Reddit page had a fairly comprehensive list of YouTube series on developing VR with UE4

• Lynda

  • An advanced tutorial series- Brown provides access to Lynda

• Epic Games Website

  • A little hard to navigate, but has a very comprehensive collection of tutorials for Oculus, SteamVR, Samsung Gear VR, and Google VR, in addition to general VR tutorials

Oculus Tutorials

• Oculus Website

  • Very brief tutorial, better for showing Oculus Rift related resources that support Unreal Engine 4

SteamVR Tutorials

• 3dtotal

  • A 16-part Unreal Engine game tutorial that converts said game to VR in the last 2 parts

First Person Shooter Tutorial

Setting up a project

• Set up a new project

• Open the project in visual studio 

• add log messages 

• compile the project for the first time

• Set the default game mode

Implementing a character

• make a new character 

• set up axis mapping 

• Implement character movement function

• implement mouse camera control 

• Implement character jumping 

• Add mesh to character 

• change the camera views

• add a first person mesh to character

Implementing a projectile 

• Add projectiles 

• Implement shooting functionality 

• Create projectile collision and lifetime

• Implement projectiles to react to collisions

• Add crosshairs to view port

Animate a character

• Set up event graph 

• Add an animation state machine 

• add animation transition states 

  • add idle to/from run transitions 

  • add idle to jump start 

  • add run 

  • add jump start to jump loop transition 

  • add jump end to idle transition