Where can I get UE4 training?

Is there any kind of school online or in person that teaches ue4?
Also anyone in Oklahoma that can show me around the program?

The UE4 YouTube channel contains many very helpful tutorial videos, especially for beginners. It’s a great place to start learning.

I’ve been doing the tutorials and they are a lot of fun. Really wanting to dive into the program but not drown in it. Just wanting to ask lots of little questions and have them answered faster than putting them in the answer hub.

Todays example being I was trying to figure out the camera. My goal was to make the camera work like in tappy chicken. I can place a static camera. When I would hit play I could move the camera around which I didn’t want to happen. The player didn’t move which was good. Also the starting position of the camera was not matching the preview window during the set up.

Having access to some kind of teacher would be really nice.

UE4 was just released about a month ago. It will prob be a while, before books and paid instruction are available for this software. Most of the answers you need are available on the web, for free. You just have to want it, bad enough.

I watched a video demoing the software. And I thought. Great, this should be simple. I get the software. Looked at marketplace. Downloaded some demos. Watched some tutorials. Tried the flying template and other than being able to fly the basic ship around, I am lost. I am an American, the speakers giving the tutorials are difficult to understand. They talk very fast. Use a bunch of shortcuts and fly through the problem like a wizard, but a beginner is not a wizard, we are basically dummies and get lost in this intense and highly detailed piece of software. My goal is wanting to make an original shoot em up game, but I feel like I might go back to Corona and do something in 2D. The help is half baked and thinking about giving up and cancelling my 20 month sub. I don’t feel like I will make something sellable with this software.

BTW I have a brand new MacBook Pro and not even getting scratching the surface it crashed 3 times on my and it is the only piece of software that makes my fans sound like a jet engine. I feel like my laptop is gonna take off the runway.

Please improve the marketplace and get something real beginners can really use. Get some tutorials spoken by an American that talks clear and slower and does not assume the user knows anything. If it is too slow for some they can always fast forward, but if the expert foreign speaker blazes through the program he is only showing us that he can fly and we can’t.

  1. UE4 is not designed to run on a laptop. It is clearly stated that you need a fairly “beefy” gaming PC to run it.
  2. I don’t know which tutorials you are watching, but there are clear, step-by-step tutorials on the UE4 you-tube official channel . (Skip the “quick-shots” videos, and watch the long form videos)
  3. It clearly states that this UE4 is brand new, and if you want a more “polished” product, to wait 6 months, for further implementation of features, such as the marketplace.
  4. I am a total beginner, with no experience whatsoever with game engines. I have been slowly learning UE4 with no instruction other than the official UE4 documentation and tutorials. I am making slow but steady progress. It’s not easy, it’s hard. It’s a challenge.
  5. There are many learning institutions that offer courses in all aspects of Video Game production. They are VERY expensive ($20-$30K +), and take 1 or 2 years to complete. Creating REAL video games with a Pro game engine like UE4, isn’t like playing Minecraft…it can be a lifelong study, with many, many, aspects such as level design, animation, art design, programming, audio design, etc,etc.
  6. UE4 is a brand new, world class piece of high-tech amazing software. $19/month is a sweet deal. Hopefully the marketplace and the community will evolve quickly, so we can all help each other learn faster. Best of luck to you.
  1. It says a quad core PC. My laptop is 8 core, 2.3 GHz, i7. It’s not a wimpy PC laptop. It does not say it cannot run on a laptop it just states 4 core as the recommended.
  2. This is no clear starting point or path on the Youtube channel.
  3. Brand new. It is unfinished, uncomplete. If it is beta, it Epic should not charge for it yet until its finished.
  4. great.
  5. whatever
  6. $19.99 month rental for something that will Epic will make money on with people thinking it is for “Everyone” as advertised and it is not for everyone
  7. I designed games 20 years ago with tools that were better than this.

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You need to be more specific on what aspects of the tutorials you don’t like and you want to see improved, other than the speakers’ accents, so that they can make better ones. Is it the editor interface or the programming side of things or workflow? Don’t get me wrong but English is my second language and i don’t have 20 years of game design experience, yet i can clearly understand what the tutorials explain so your complaints on tutorials are confusing for me.

For starters, is there a series on Epic’s YouTube channel that:

  1. Walks slowly through the interface.
  2. a series that explains blueprint, it’s connectors. There are so many options in blueprint, but the tutorials I found in epic’s website filter out a lot if stuff and I am sorry, but I just glaze over and get lost.
  3. A tutorial on how to make a 2D and 3d shoot em up game in engine4 side scrolling or top down scrolling.
  4. How to make a 3D shooter up game with collisions, scoring, levels, Addimg basic AI and interactively.
  5. How to design and add your own characters to your game.
  1. A video that walks slowly thru the interface.
    (UE4 Editor - 1 - UI Overview)

  2. If you go to the UE4 Blueprint Tutorials section on the UE4 Youtube channel, there is a playlist consisting of 43 instructional videos about blueprints. Videos 1 thru 10 are a step by step introduction to BP’s and how they work. Videos 11 thru 22 are “Quick-Shot” vids, which are not tutorials, but very quickly show you what is possible when you are more advanced with your BP knowledge. Videos 23 thru 28 geared towards networking. Videos 29 thru 43 take you step-by-step thru the process of setting up a 3rd person style character creation.
    If you are not a programmer, or have never done scripting (like me), it’s a challenge to use BP’s. ( it seems like BP’s negate you having to learn to type out lines of code, but u still have to learn the language and terms used by C++ in order to execute stuff)
    I wish there was an entire book dedicated to translating every BP command and node into easy to understand functionality of common things. I also look fwd to when the Marketplace is open, and hopefully people who are good at making BP’s will share & sell useful BP templates, so I can focus more on game design, and less on scripting.

Hope this helps.

Super. I will check that first section on blueprints and go from there. I do have experience with objective-c and scripting, I just needed a place to start with blueprint. Thanks for that info and I too am looking forward to more stuff added to marketplace. Thanks for sharing and pointing me into a direction.

Well cough on the best youtube channel there is of course…

I found a you-tube channel with some quick & helpful tutorials. The name of the channel is Tesla Dev

Check it out. Also, I’d love to start a user group where we can share any & all helpful you-tube videos/channel tutorials. It seems we are starting to get more & more users posting helpful videos, as time goes on & the community gets bigger. Very grateful.

Several people on this thread have expressed an interest in UE4 school or instruction. Happy to report that I found an individual who is offering 1 on 1 online UE4 instruction. His YouTube channel is Tesla Dev. Great tutorial vids on YouTube.

Several people on this thread have expressed an interest in UE4 school or instruction. Happy to report that I found an individual who is offering 1 on 1 online UE4 instruction. His YouTube channel is Tesla Dev. Great tutorial vids on YouTube.