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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today marks the day I finished the youtube tutorial game! The tutorial I followed was by Gorka Games, here’s the link: How to Make Your First Game in Unreal Engine 5 in 2024 – Full Course<\/a>

I had zero knowledge of Unreal Engine or any game development prior to following that tutorial, so I would recommend it for total beginners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Character Models and Meshes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most of the focus today was on character models and meshes (and some animation). I swapped the meshes to a more realistic looking one, but that broke the model since they were made for UE4. With some quick re-targeting it was easy to make them work for UE5. But that broke the animations, so had to also re-target the animations from UE5 to UE4 to fit the new models. It turned out just fine though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One issue I ran into, and was pointed out in the tutorial video is that the new enemy models weren’t assigned as a ‘physical asset’, so they were kinda broken. Luckily UE5 makes that easy to fix.

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Audio and Lighting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I did make some small changes to the lighting, mostly to increase performance of the game, but I didn’t notice much difference on my PC. I also added the background audio which is ambient forest noises, wind in the trees, birds, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’m done with this tutorial game for now, although I may poke around with some of the settings and tweak stuff just to experiment.

Next I’m going to start right away on following another tutorial by GameDev.tv<\/a> to create a whole game. My focus right now is on learning Unreal Engine Blueprints and I found 4 game creation tutorials from GameDev.TV that only use blueprints. I haven’t decided which one I’m going to do quite yet, but I plan on starting on that right after writing this blog page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s my “finished” game made by following the tutorial!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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