1 00:00:04,370 --> 00:00:05,570 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,570 --> 00:00:11,930 ‫In this lecture, we are going to be getting to this screen here with unreal five installed and ready 3 00:00:11,930 --> 00:00:12,530 ‫to go. 4 00:00:12,530 --> 00:00:14,840 ‫Let's dive in and get started. 5 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:22,220 ‫So let's start off with an overview of the installation process we're about to go through in this video. 6 00:00:22,370 --> 00:00:29,840 ‫The first step is to check the requirements of our machine to see that we have got a machine that can 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:35,360 ‫run unreal, and if not, what components we might need to look at upgrading in order to meet those 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:36,710 ‫minimum requirements. 9 00:00:36,860 --> 00:00:39,740 ‫Then we're going to go and install the Epic Games launcher. 10 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:44,600 ‫If you don't have this already for playing Fortnite or whatever other games you might install through 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,910 ‫the Epic Games launcher, then we're going to look at logging in and creating an Epic Games account 12 00:00:49,910 --> 00:00:57,080 ‫again, if you don't have one already, and then finding the Unreal Engine Library tab to add an engine 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:02,660 ‫version and install it, you may feel confident going through this entire process yourself, in which 14 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:05,900 ‫case I would challenge you to go ahead and do just that. 15 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:08,210 ‫But I'm going to run through it with you now. 16 00:01:08,210 --> 00:01:14,960 ‫At the time of recording, the documentation has not yet been updated for Unreal five, but the link 17 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,270 ‫in your resources will be kept up to date. 18 00:01:17,270 --> 00:01:21,020 ‫So when that is released, you will get the latest and greatest. 19 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:23,300 ‫So here are the recommendations. 20 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:27,050 ‫You can see that there is a separate tab for Windows, Mac and Linux. 21 00:01:27,050 --> 00:01:30,260 ‫So do choose your appropriate operating system. 22 00:01:30,260 --> 00:01:35,510 ‫But at the top level, they're saying a minimum requirement is that you have Windows ten on a 64 bit 23 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:36,290 ‫processor. 24 00:01:36,770 --> 00:01:42,080 ‫So that processor should be a quad core, either Intel or AMD and 2.5 gigahertz or faster. 25 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,860 ‫So that's not too hard requirement to match these days. 26 00:01:45,860 --> 00:01:50,150 ‫But do make sure you do a memory of a minimum of eight gigabytes of RAM. 27 00:01:50,150 --> 00:01:57,800 ‫I do recommend you have more if you can and a graphics card that supports DirectX 11 or DirectX 12. 28 00:01:57,890 --> 00:02:02,630 ‫Now I'm running a 980, so you don't need the most up to date cards. 29 00:02:02,630 --> 00:02:07,820 ‫But even on my graphics card, things can get a bit slow from time to time and I will show you how we 30 00:02:07,820 --> 00:02:09,290 ‫can get around those things. 31 00:02:09,620 --> 00:02:13,160 ‫Then we're going to look at macOS requirements here. 32 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,670 ‫It's requiring that you have macOS, Big Sur or later. 33 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:20,660 ‫I do recommend you probably have the latest version of macOS, whatever that is for you. 34 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:22,670 ‫Again, the requirements are basically the same. 35 00:02:22,670 --> 00:02:24,200 ‫They recommend an Intel Mac. 36 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:31,460 ‫You can just about make things work on the new Apple silicon chips, but it can be a little bit harder. 37 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:36,380 ‫So I do recommend you follow along with an Intel Mac if you have one available again eight gigabytes 38 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:42,980 ‫of RAM and you do need to have a video card that supports metal 1.2 or later for folks on Linux. 39 00:02:42,980 --> 00:02:48,470 ‫I'm going to let you read your own specifications now for the next step in the process, we're going 40 00:02:48,470 --> 00:02:51,140 ‫to need to go ahead and download the Epic Games launcher. 41 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:53,720 ‫The way we do this is we go to Unreal Engine XCOM. 42 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:56,960 ‫If you don't already have it installed, hit the download button. 43 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,400 ‫Now we're going to. 44 00:02:58,430 --> 00:03:01,670 ‫It doesn't matter which license you select here, actually, it's going to download the same thing. 45 00:03:01,670 --> 00:03:07,190 ‫But for our sake, I'm just going to go with the publishing license as that is kind of the safest if 46 00:03:07,190 --> 00:03:10,010 ‫you're actually going to make games and publish them, click download. 47 00:03:10,010 --> 00:03:14,840 ‫Now you get the Epic Installer, MSI downloading or on a mac. 48 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,440 ‫You will probably get something that you can drag into your applications folder instead. 49 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:24,590 ‫And while that's downloading for me, why don't you go ahead and set it off downloading for you too, 50 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,870 ‫a few minutes later. 51 00:03:26,870 --> 00:03:31,550 ‫So once the MSI is downloaded, let's go ahead and run through the installer on a mac. 52 00:03:31,550 --> 00:03:36,740 ‫You're going to unzip, open up, put it into your applications folder and you'll just be able to launch 53 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:37,070 ‫it. 54 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:39,230 ‫So we're going to hit the install button. 55 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:40,670 ‫So hit yes. 56 00:03:40,670 --> 00:03:46,340 ‫To allow access and generally run through a fairly standard installer process. 57 00:03:46,340 --> 00:03:53,540 ‫Once that's done, you will see the Epic Games launcher load up and start to verify updates or whatever 58 00:03:53,540 --> 00:03:58,490 ‫it's doing, downloading anything that it needs to just update itself. 59 00:03:58,490 --> 00:04:03,800 ‫I will never understand why software needs updating the very second you've just installed it, but there 60 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:12,260 ‫you go a few more minutes later and once that's done, it may ask you for some more permissions so that 61 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:17,090 ‫you can install prerequisites for the Epic Games launcher. 62 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:20,570 ‫And then finally, when it launches up, it's time to sign in. 63 00:04:20,570 --> 00:04:26,060 ‫With your Epic Games account, you've got the option of a bunch of different social logins, but if 64 00:04:26,060 --> 00:04:31,220 ‫you've got an epic games username and password already, then you can go ahead and enter those in. 65 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:33,050 ‫Once you've done that hit log in. 66 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:40,700 ‫Now, once the store loads up, what you're going to want to do is come up instead of being in the store 67 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:41,510 ‫or the library. 68 00:04:41,510 --> 00:04:47,420 ‫When I go down to the Unreal Engine section on the left hand pane, and then once we're in the Unreal 69 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:54,800 ‫Engine section, we need to go to the library tab and click on the plus button to install a new version 70 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:55,580 ‫of the Unreal Engine. 71 00:04:55,580 --> 00:04:58,340 ‫Or you could click Install Engine at the top right up here. 72 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:02,540 ‫So click the plus button and then what we want to do is click the dropdown. 73 00:05:02,540 --> 00:05:03,590 ‫Here's the version for. 74 00:05:03,650 --> 00:05:05,570 ‫Point two, 7.2. 75 00:05:05,570 --> 00:05:08,270 ‫That's the latest stable version at the time of recording. 76 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:15,590 ‫But if I click the dropdown, then you can see there is 5.0.0 preview to please select whichever is 77 00:05:15,590 --> 00:05:19,430 ‫the latest version of Unreal five for you. 78 00:05:19,730 --> 00:05:24,340 ‫So that's going to be preview two for me and then hit the install button. 79 00:05:24,350 --> 00:05:29,210 ‫Now for me, it's come up with a warning saying that this is pre-release and it's for testing only. 80 00:05:29,210 --> 00:05:32,110 ‫I'm going to go ahead and click install if you want to. 81 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:38,480 ‫You can choose a different installation location for this, which you can do by browsing to it. 82 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:44,540 ‫And I've just done so we can go ahead and hit install and it's going to download and download prerequisites 83 00:05:44,540 --> 00:05:51,020 ‫we need and finish off the installation process 2 hours later. 84 00:05:52,210 --> 00:05:52,600 ‫Okay. 85 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:59,440 ‫So I fast forwarded through the download installation and verification process that will happen next. 86 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:05,260 ‫I suggest you get your started while you watch the rest of the video because it does take a rather long 87 00:06:05,260 --> 00:06:05,920 ‫time. 88 00:06:06,220 --> 00:06:12,070 ‫Now, once you have done that, it's going to ask you for permission again to change some stuff on your 89 00:06:12,070 --> 00:06:12,490 ‫system. 90 00:06:12,490 --> 00:06:13,720 ‫Do a go ahead and say yes. 91 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:19,810 ‫And then once you're there, you will have unreal engine installed and you will be able to either hit 92 00:06:19,810 --> 00:06:26,200 ‫the launch button against a specific version or the default launch button up here in the top. 93 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:26,560 ‫Right. 94 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:33,460 ‫You can set a default engine version by clicking on the dropdown next to launch and clicking set current. 95 00:06:33,730 --> 00:06:39,850 ‫So then we hit the launch button and Unreal is going to load up and the first time you launch it up 96 00:06:39,850 --> 00:06:45,790 ‫on Windows, it's going to ask you to install some prerequisites so you get more installation to do. 97 00:06:45,790 --> 00:06:51,580 ‫This is a long process, but it is certainly worth it now by default in Unreal five, it can load up 98 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:53,410 ‫with your latest project. 99 00:06:53,410 --> 00:06:57,820 ‫And here for me, the latest project I had open was this crypt radar for later on in the course. 100 00:06:58,030 --> 00:07:03,640 ‫And so what you need to do in this case is go to the file menu and hit the new project button. 101 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,900 ‫And this is going to bring up the new project window. 102 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:11,080 ‫And this is the starting point for the next video. 103 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,700 ‫So I'll see you there.