Unreal Engine Courses

Hair at a Strand Level - Grooming Your Creations in Unreal Engine

Learn to import, style, bind, simulate, and optimize strand-based hair and fur for characters in Unreal Engine.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Simulating Large Crowds in Niagara - Unreal Engine

Learn how Unreal Engine’s Niagara system uses smart mesh particles, vertex animation, and animation modules to render massive real-time crowds efficiently.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Guided Tour of Gameplay Abilities - Inside Unreal

A hands-on tour of Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System, using melee abilities, effects, attributes, gameplay cues, multiplayer, and AI.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Water System Deep Dive - Inside Unreal

Explore Unreal Engine’s water system through custom waves, runtime mesh rebuilding, water materials, blends, translucency, and environmental effects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Worlds with Landmass - Unreal Engine

Learn to use Unreal Engine’s Landmass plugin and Landscape Layers to create non-destructive terrain, build custom Blueprint brushes, and iterate on game-world environments.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unreal Engine AI with Behavior Trees

Build stealth-like enemy AI in Unreal Engine with Behavior Trees, AI Perception, and Environment Query System queries.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advanced Niagara Effects - Inside Unreal

Explore advanced Niagara techniques for flocking bats, insect swarms, and position-based dynamics simulations in Unreal Engine 5.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Performance Optimization for Environments - Inside Unreal

Learn to diagnose and optimize Unreal Engine environment performance using profiling tools, rendering techniques, scalability settings, and performance budgets.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Gameplay Abilities Framework - Unreal Fest Online 2020

Practical lessons from production use of Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System, including Gameplay Tags, Abilities, and gameplay architecture challenges.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Network Multiplayer Fundamentals - Inside Unreal

Learn how to build networked multiplayer games in Unreal Engine using server authority, client-server communication, and actor replication.

• YouTube
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Hero AI – Gameplay Abilities Meet Behavior Trees

See how Unreal Engine gameplay abilities and behavior trees coordinate heroes’ automatic targeting, prioritization, and ability use.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Strategy Games with PCG and More - Atre: Dominance Wars

Explore PCG tools and tech art techniques for indie strategy game development, featuring insights from Ironward's Atre: Dominance Wars team.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modular Rigging in Unreal Engine 5.4 - Speeding Up Character Creation

Explore UE 5.4's modular rigging features to accelerate character creation and unleash artistic creativity, enhancing workflow efficiency for game developers.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Optimizing UE5 - Advanced Rendering, Graphics Performance, and Memory Management

Dive deep into debugging Nanite, Lumen, and VSM performance issues in UE5. Learn memory management techniques for new graphics features and leverage virtual texturing for optimal performance.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Diving Deep with MetaHumans - Advanced Workflows and Best Practices

Explore advanced MetaHuman workflows, from Live Link Face app to animation transfer, for creating diverse digital characters in Unreal Engine.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video