Extended Reality (VR+AR)

Introduction to UE5

• Explore Unreal Engine, its applications, install the Epic Games Launcher, explore its components, install Unreal Engine and its versions, navigate Unreal Editor, understand various panels, master viewport navigation, widgets, and shortcuts, and comprehend the effects of basic actors on the level, including collision, lighting, and physics.

Project Anatomy and working with Assets

• Analyze level creation, import assets, navigate content packs and marketplace, manage files, establish source control, utilize blueprints, construct environments, manipulate actors, and explore plugins for project anatomy and asset management in Unreal Engine.

Asset import (from any DCC tools)

• Classify to import assets from diverse DCC tools, recognize importable file types, utilize the FBX pipeline, manipulate import settings, manage asset importation in and out of Unreal, grasp import/export caveats, merge meshes for new creations, comprehend mesh pivot points, and utilize DataSmith and DataPrep for specific import use cases.

Look development Fundamentals (Introduction to Materials)

• Gain proficiency in the PBR workflow, create simple materials, analyze Starter Content materials, understand material domains, blend modes, and opacity, manipulate textures effectively, utilize material expression pins, comprehend materials and material instances, and define material parameters in the fundamentals of look development.

Advanced Materials in Unreal

• Learn to maximize material potential, manipulate properties for desired aesthetics, explore diverse methods of material manipulation, master UV utilization, implement advanced setups for materials including tiling and rotation, and avoid grid-like tiling textures for enhanced visual appeal.

Introduction to Lighting

• Understand, differentiate, apply, utilize, implement, and grasp the fundamental concepts of static and dynamic lighting, UE5's LUMEN technology, various light types, HDRI's, and Ray Tracing.

Gameplay framework

• Describe pawn possession, differentiate between various pawn types including player characters, analyze game modes and events, trigger events through collisions and trace queries, explore project settings for input and collision configurations, apply tick knowledge in diverse project contexts, utilize various Blueprint Communications, and implement interfaces, casting, and event dispatchers.

Introduction to Blueprint

• Explain about Blueprint fundamentals, including components, editor interface, and types, and demonstrate proficiency in creating, executing, and leveraging Blueprint graphs for procedural content generation and Level Blueprint functionality.

Level building in UE5

• Create realistic scale dimensions, utilize basic actors for world building, learn modeling tools, select appropriate color palettes and lighting, create and apply landscape materials, grasp sky atmospheric systems, incorporate fog and reflection capture actors, define Lightmass Importance Volumes, utilize post-process volumes, observe lighting effects on foliage, and conduct playtesting for the first level.

Landscape Creation

• Identify various types of landscapes such as mountain, coastal, desert, rural, urban, and water; create landscapes, sculpt terrain using different brushes and heightmaps; explore Quixel Bridge for terrain, foliage, and material assets; incorporate vegetation for forest-like landscapes; introduce water bodies like lakes and rivers; and explain Dynamic World Loading with World Partition.

Post Processing Essentials

• Describe the fundamentals of post-processing, utilize post-processing techniques, explore color grading components, examine camera and rendering features, create custom post-processing materials, and integrate LookUpTables with post-processing effects.

Sequencer in Unreal Engine

• Familiarize with Sequencer in Unreal, organize sequence tracks, incorporate actors and characters, integrate animations, differentiate between linear and non-linear animation, utilize the Curve Editor Graph, apply various types of interpolation, introduce Physically Based Camera, configure rendering settings, and render out the final scene.

Deployment

• Learn to export UAsset files and packages, configure project settings for .exe files, adjust build settings for maps and modes, develop installers, explore deployment on other platforms like Android, and integrate APIs effectively.

VR Overview & Introduction to Oculus and Unreal

• Introduce VR concepts and hardware setup, compare VR with similar tech, explore practical applications, assess market impact, evaluate appeal and limitations, understand Oculus hardware and integration with Unreal Engine.

VR Project & Scene Setup

• Set up VR project, explore templates and settings, configure pawn and camera, integrate motion controllers, establish VR presence, implement functionality, utilize OpenXR, manage camera and rendering, introduce locomotion and interaction mechanics, explore UI and widgets, understand level design principles.

Movements & Interactions Setup

• Implement various movement mechanics and interactions such as continuous movement, teleportation, and object interactions, while designing immersive VR environments with advanced level design techniques and optimizations for performance.

VR User Experience

• Apply feedback cues, integrate haptic responses, address motion issues, refine level design and gameplay elements, and enhance the VR experience through rigorous testing and additional feature implementation.

Optimisation & Deployment

• Grasp performance considerations, optimize projects for smoother performance, identify and address common bottlenecks, test and profile for optimal performance, package for Oculus Quest, finalize and polish projects, deploy across various VR platforms, and showcase the final product with its level design.

Introduction to AR

• Gain an introduction to AR, assess its impact on the current market and diverse sectors, understand AR technology and key challenges, differentiate between application and social AR, explore types of AR including marker-based and markerless, and delve into location-based versus object-based AR, alongside familiarizing with AR development tools and platforms.

Lens Studio AR Walkthrough

• Explore Lens Studio, walkthrough templates, integrate assets, understand scene composition, inspect designs, and utilize various trackers to enhance AR experiences, especially in digital marketing, and merge multiple trackers for richer interactions.

Tracking the Face AR Lens Design

• Learn face AR features, manipulate images and assets, test lenses, set up development environments, implement basic face tracking, and discuss future trends and challenges.

Marker Tracking Lens Design

• Explore marker tracking's marketing applications, import assets, create marker tracking objects, place content, and develop interactive AR experiences, discussing various marker types and implementing marker tracking in SnapAR.