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‫Hello and welcome.

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‫In this lecture.

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‫It's all about this main area here.

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‫The viewport.

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‫We're going to be learning how we can navigate around it, how we can play our game, and how to create

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‫our first project.

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‫Let's dive in.

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‫So here we are at the new project window that we've seen in previous lectures.

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‫Now, what we want to do here is to select in the left hand pane.

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‫We're making a games project.

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‫There's different template projects for different industries.

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‫We want to go to the third person template and then we want to select a blueprint here.

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‫We'll talk later on in the section about Blueprint and C++ and the differences.

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‫Then the Target platform will leave it desktop quality preset.

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‫Let's leave that at maximum for now.

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‫Ray will leave Ray tracing off and start a content off.

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‫If those are checked for you, especially starter content, then just go ahead and uncheck it.

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‫It will make creating the project much faster for us.

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‫And as for ray tracing, well, that depends on whether you have a ray tracing capable GPU.

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‫If you're not sure, leave it unchecked.

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‫Next up, we need to give it a project location.

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‫I've already selected mine, but if you click the little folder tab next to it, you can browse to your

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‫project location and click Select Folder.

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‫And then I'm going to give my project name.

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‫It has to have no spaces and be all basically English characters.

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‫So Intro project for me, there's a maximum length that you can have here and there are some restrictions,

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‫but it will tell you if you enter something wrong, let's go ahead and hit create and you can see that

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‫in the folder.

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‫It started creating some files already and if you didn't include the start of content, this should

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‫load up fairly quickly and once it loads up this is what you're going to be greeted with.

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‫The big area in the middle is the one we're going to focus on for this lecture.

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‫It's called The Viewport, and it gives you a 3D preview of the level that we've currently got open.

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‫You can see the name of the level in the tab is the third person map.

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‫And we can play this level by going to the toolbar and the green play button hitting that, and you're

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‫going to start off as this third person character to activate and control the character.

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‫It did say up here at the top of the viewport that you need to click into the viewport and then your

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‫mouse will control which way you are looking.

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‫Sad keys will help move you around and you can hit, jump and generally traverse the level as you would

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‫expect to be able to traverse a third person map.

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‫You've even got these blue blocks that will interact and be pushed around by you.

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‫And generally you can have a bit of fun now to stop playing and to release your mouse and carry on working

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‫with the unreal editor.

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‫We have to hit the escape key.

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‫And you notice that my viewpoint in that map has changed to where I just was when I was playing.

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‫So how do I go about navigating in this space while I am not playing?

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‫Because that's something we want to do.

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‫We want to build these maps.

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‫We want to create a world.

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‫We need to be able to explore it.

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‫Well, the easiest way is to right click inside the viewport and it will grab hold of your mouse pointer.

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‫And you can pan around.

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‫You can look around just like you would in a first person shooter, for example.

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‫And you can move around like you would in a first person shooter with sad keys.

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‫You can float around as long as you've got that right mouse button held down.

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‫And you can also go up and down with the Q and E keys as well, and that will allow you to very easily

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‫navigate around.

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‫This is by far the easiest version of navigating in the 3D viewport.

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‫There are a couple of other options you can left click, which has a bit more of a restricted movement,

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‫keeps you on the ground plain and doesn't look up and down.

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‫And there's the middle mouse button which kind of pans you around like that, which might be useful

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‫in some environments.

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‫Now if while you've been playing around in this viewport, things have felt a bit sluggish to you and

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‫it feels like the engine's going slowly.

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‫Then here's a little trick for you if you go to your settings cog in the top right hand corner and then

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‫you scroll on down to the engine scalability settings.

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‫You can check between different quality settings here to affect how quickly your your computer is able

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‫to render the viewport.

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‫So as you can see in the top left of my viewport, you can see the scalability has been set to high

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‫because my GPU can't quite handle the power of Unreal five, so I have to dial it back just a little

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‫bit.

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‫It's also worth noting that a lot of this interface is highly configurable.

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‫These panels, these little tabs, mini tabs here can be undocked and moved around in the viewport and

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‫docked into different places.

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‫They can be entirely closed.

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‫And if you ever lose a panel and you're not sure how to get it back, the easiest thing to do is go

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‫up to the window menu, go down to load layout and hit default editor layout, and it's going to just

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‫pop back to the default view that we're started with.

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‫So I'd like to challenge you to practice your flying skills in the viewport.

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‫So navigate to the four different corners of our map and try and look back at the character there's.

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‫A character actually in the scene, but you can see where the character starts is this little flag area.

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‫So look back towards there once you've got to a corner.

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‫And which control scheme do you find the most comfortable?

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‫Try out the different ones, the different mouse clicks and see which feels the best.

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‫Pause the video and have a go.

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‫Okay.

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‫Welcome back.

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‫So I'm going to use the right mouse button because that's the one I feel most comfortable with.

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‫And I'm going to zoom off to a particular corner.

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‫And it's worth noting that you can change the speed of the camera movement by while you've got the right

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‫mouse button down.

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‫You can scroll the scroll wheel and scrolling it one way will make it slower and the other way will

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‫make it faster.

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‫Then we can look back at the center, we can go scroll up, scroll down a little bit, and you can see

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‫you can even pass through walls while you're in the viewport.

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‫You're not restricted to the rules of physics.

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‫You're just navigating around in the viewport.

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‫Okay, so that's me done.

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‫You have a go get comfortable with the control scheme and navigating around in the viewport.

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‫We're going to be doing it a lot.

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‫And don't worry if you don't quite feel it just yet, we're going to get there because you're going

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‫to do a lot of practice.

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‫Great stuff.

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‫I'm going to see you in the next lecture.