UNREAL OPEN DAY SHANGHAI

UNREAL ENGINE EDUCATION & TRAINING

Luis Cataldi - Director of Education and Learning - Epic Games

March 2014 – Unreal Engine is Released
“Epic’s goal is to put the engine within reach
of everyone interested in building games and
3D content, from indies to large triple-A
development teams, and Minecraft creators
as well. For $19/month you can have access
to everything, including the Unreal Editor in
ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete
C++ source code hosted on GitHub for
collaborative development.”

Tim Sweeney
Founder, Epic Games
September 2014 – Unreal Engine goes FREE for Academic use
“Unreal Engine 4 is now free for academic use,
including personal copies for students enrolled in
accredited video game development, computer
science, art, architecture, simulation, and
visualization programs!”

▪ All educators can now have unrestricted access to the

engine
▪ Thousands of academic customers sign up and begin their
journey with UE4
October 2014 – Unreal Engine 4 Free for Students Through GitHub
“Through a collaboration with GitHub and their
newly revamped Student Developer Pack, we’re
able to give students direct access to Unreal Engine
4 for free! All that’s necessary is to sign up with
your student information at GitHub’s site and we
will grant you a free subscription to Unreal Engine 4
to use in all of your academic endeavors.”
March 2015 – If You Love Something, Set It Free
“Unreal Engine 4 is now available to
everyone for free, and all future updates
will be free!”

“You can download the engine and use it for

everything from game development, education,
architecture, and visualization to VR, film &
animation.”
Unreal Engine Training Streams
Every Tuesday, we host Live Training
from Epic Games. Our learning
resource team and may top
programmers, artist, and designers
conduct Unreal Engine training live
on Twitch. The videos are then
posted on playlists on the Unreal
Engine, YouTube.com channel.

There are currently 89 archived

training streams on Youtube and
growing.
Wiki – Troubleshooting Guides
The Unreal Engine Wiki hosts a valuable
list of troubleshooting guides including:
• Lighting
• Destruction
• Blueprints
• C++
• Mobile Development
• Packaging and Deployment
• Asset Creation
• AI
Resources Page
The unrealengine.com/resources page is a
collection of presentations, research papers,
best practices, books and guides from Epic
developers and partners for Unreal Engine.
There are many worthwhile resources to
explore in this archive.
Academic Partners
The goal of the Academic Partner program is to
offer a service to students seeking academic
institutions that provide a quality Unreal Engine
education. We also strive to build an
educational community able to share Unreal
Engine learning resources and promote high
quality UE4 teaching and learning material to
our users.
Education Community Newsletter to Academic Partners

● Need to know Documentation updates

● New Training Steam Videos

● Links to noteworthy Student UE4 work

● Information about UE4 Meetups

● Links to need-to-know education support

documents
Academic Showcases
Academic Showcases is where we
features noteworthy schools,
educators and student works done in
Unreal Engine.
Student Sizzle Reels

• The footage collected regularly from top schools

• Updated annually
• The 2017 reel received over 34K views in 4 days
GDC Education Community Summit

● Presentations from Epic Games though leaders

● Meet top education community members

● See what 3rd party learning is bringing each year

● Learn about opportunities at Epic

Publications – Pearson Education
Sams Teach Yourself Unreal® Engine 4
Game Development in 24 Hours
By Aram Cookson, Ryan DowlingSoka, Clinton
Crumpler & Pearson Education Inc.

This is a good book to use in a class/lab setting to teach and

learn the fundamentals of Unreal Engine. It comes complete
with exercises, quizzes, and sample files to help promote
learning the foundations of Unreal.
Publications – Pearson Education
Unreal Engine VR Cookbook
By Mitchell McCaffrey & Pearson Education Inc.

Mitch has been an active member of the VR community. He

has a popular YouTube.com Channel called Mitch's VR Lab
which has helped a lot of people learn VR with Unreal Engine.
Publications – Pearson Education
Unreal Engine 4 Design Visualization
By Tom Shannon & Pearson Education Inc.

Another good book currently in technical review at Epic

scheduled to release soon.
Unreal Engine on Social Media

Unreal Engine on Twitter.com

Unreal Engine on Facebook

UE4 on Social Media

Unreal Engine on Twitch

Unreal Engine on YouTube.com

UE4 Good to Know Facebook Groups

UE4 Game Developers Club Unreal Devs

Unreal Engine Education Community Unreal Engine 4 Help Desk

Unreal Engine Student Community

Education Community quality learning content

Marcos Romero
● Blueprint Compendium I
● Blueprint Compendium II
● Blueprint Compendium III

Cedric “eXi” Neukirchen

● Network Compendium
Education Community quality learning content

Michael Alar ‘s UE4 Style Guide

This is a must-use resource for

those new to building projects
in Unreal.
Professional Unreal Engine Learning Resources:

Learn to Code in C++ by Developing Your First

Game.

This is a well developed C++ Unreal Engine

course teaching C++ and Blueprints, AI
Blackboards & Behavior Trees, Environmental
Query System (EQS), Humanoid Animation
Blending in a never-ending Level Design game
course.
Professional Unreal Engine Learning Resources:
New approved Udemy.com course by

Unreal Engine Evangelist Chris Murphy.

This is a new course, teaching many cores

skills of Unreal Engine including lighting,

rendering, Blueprints, Frameworks, and

gameplay mechanics.
UE4 Learning Community Web Sites:

Unreal Education Dev Grant winner Elhoussine

Mehnik has published a new website dedicated to
Unreal Engine 4 learning resources which anyone can
download, play with, and deconstruct. Everything
from plugins and templates, to virtual reality
(VR) and artificial intelligence examples.

UE4Resources.com
UE4 Learning Community Web Sites:

Tom is a freelance developer using Unreal Engine 4.

He was once an Technical Relations Engineer at Epic
Games. He hosts a great website with many valuable
learning resource for C++, Blueprints, VR, and Game
Development.

www.tomlooman.com
UE4 Learning Community Web Sites:

Marcos Romero is a Brazilian game developer,

programmer, and educator. He hosts the website
romeroblueprints.blogspot.nl where he has two
completed Blueprint Compendiums and a third
volume on the way.
UE4 Learning Community Web Sites:

UE4U.xyz is an Unreal Engine learning resource site

by Dev Grant winner and noted author Muhammad
Moniem.

Great link to a Unity to Unreal series.

www.ue4u.xyz
University Research Projects - Stanford University
The VR Editor began its life as a collaboration
between Epic and students at Stanford University.

Two teams took very different approaches to

investigating what editing VR content from in VR
would be like. The outcomes of both projects
were valuable to the development of the VR
Editor.

We released the VR Editor Preview at GDC 2016,

and put it in Unreal Engine 4.12.
The VR Editor is coming of age in Unreal Engine 4.16
University Research Projects - Stanford University

There are currently two teams at Stanford

working on applying machine learning to
animation.

The objective of the current project is to

produce new Unreal Engine tech that can
take the input of tracking data from a VR
system and motion controllers, and produce
a believable and plausible pose for a full
body character model.
University Research Projects - Rochester Institute of Technology
A team of faculty, undergraduate, and graduate
students, led by Professor Owen Gottlieb at the
Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC
Center, build an Unreal Engine prototype funded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The game was featured at the 50th Anniversary
of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Humanities Arcade .

The strategy game teaches medieval religious

legal systems and how they promote
collaboration and cooperation while
understanding individual incentives.
University Research Projects - Rochester Institute of Technology
University Research Projects - Purdue University

Purdue courses that teach Unreal Engine:

CGT 147 - Introduction to Visual Effects
CGT 285 - Cross Cultural Game Development (Study Abroad in China)
CGT 345 - Game Development I: Skills & Technologies
CGT 445 - Game Development II: Design & Psychology
CGT 490 - Environment Modeling for Games
CGT 519 - Special Projects in Games & VR
CGT 411 - Senior Capstone
University Research Projects - Purdue University

Business French VR - Dialogue Choices

University Research Projects - Savannah College of Art & Design

Dialect Effect is a VR
learning game that teaches
Mandarin. This Unreal
Engine research prototype
utilizes voice recognition to
effectively teach simple
Mandarin terms.
University Research - University College West-Flanders HOWEST
GRADUATION WORK
BY THOMAS VAN
NUFFEL: TERRA NOVA

Thomas Van Nuffel

created a terrain and
environment engine
for use in photo
realistic environment
building.
University Research - University College West-Flanders HOWEST
DRIES DERYCKERE: CAR
DEFORMATION IN UE4

Dries Deryckere’s
research project was to
create a car that can be
procedurally destroyed in
Unreal Engine. The doors
can be ripped of, the
windows can be smashed,
and the entire car can be
reduced to scrap.
University Research - University College West-Flanders HOWEST
GRADUATION WORK:
DOVYDAS BUDRYS
REAL-TIME TORNADO

Dovydas Budrys
research project
included making a
tornado simulator in
the Unreal Engine that
interacts with its
surroundings.
University Research - University College West-Flanders HOWEST
GRADUATION WORK BY BRAM NICAISE: VAST WORLDS IN UE4

Bram Nicaise research project included creating a tool to easily design vast,
interesting and detailed worlds in Unreal Engine. Bram used blueprints and
splines to create a tool that generates procedural geometry.
Thank You!