1 00:00:04,530 --> 00:00:09,090 ‫In this lecture, we're going to look at what is blueprint. 2 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:10,050 ‫You may have heard of it. 3 00:00:10,050 --> 00:00:11,370 ‫Let's demystify that. 4 00:00:11,490 --> 00:00:18,270 ‫We're going to look at Blueprint versus C++ and which one you should choose, for what purposes, how 5 00:00:18,270 --> 00:00:22,920 ‫they can work together and how this course is going to go about teaching them. 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:23,790 ‫So let's dive in. 7 00:00:24,210 --> 00:00:25,440 ‫What is Blueprint? 8 00:00:25,770 --> 00:00:28,830 ‫Well, Blueprint is a visual programming language. 9 00:00:28,830 --> 00:00:34,890 ‫It's this one over here on the left, as opposed to C++, which is textual blueprint is written specifically 10 00:00:34,890 --> 00:00:36,180 ‫for Unreal. 11 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:42,750 ‫So you can program it directly in the editor, whereas C++ is an industry standard language and you 12 00:00:42,750 --> 00:00:45,330 ‫need separate editors to program it. 13 00:00:45,930 --> 00:00:50,490 ‫So Blueprint has some particular strengths due to its makeup. 14 00:00:50,490 --> 00:00:52,380 ‫It is quick to change. 15 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:55,770 ‫If you make a change to blueprint, you can play your game almost instantly. 16 00:00:56,550 --> 00:01:01,830 ‫It is beginner friendly because you don't have to remember complicated wordings. 17 00:01:01,830 --> 00:01:04,590 ‫In a programmer we speak you. 18 00:01:04,590 --> 00:01:09,390 ‫It's easy to discover because there is tools built right in for you to right click and search for any 19 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:13,650 ‫functionality you might be looking for and see whether it already exists within Unreal. 20 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:20,040 ‫And it's tailor made for Unreal, which means that it just fits like a good tailored suit. 21 00:01:20,070 --> 00:01:27,120 ‫It it doesn't have any kind of concepts that don't match because it's been made specifically and it 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,710 ‫is designer or artist friendly. 23 00:01:28,710 --> 00:01:34,140 ‫This is particularly useful in bigger teams where you might be working with different disciplines. 24 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:40,620 ‫Artists and designers may prefer to dip in to blueprint and help you out with some functionality or 25 00:01:40,620 --> 00:01:41,670 ‫gameplay design. 26 00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:46,740 ‫Now C++ obviously has its own set of strength, otherwise we wouldn't be teaching it. 27 00:01:47,220 --> 00:01:50,310 ‫It can be much more concise to read than blueprint. 28 00:01:50,430 --> 00:01:56,100 ‫It is an industry standard language, which means that it's got so many people who understand the language 29 00:01:56,100 --> 00:02:00,000 ‫already, as well as lots of tools and all of the support that goes along with it. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,290 ‫And you can take your knowledge from learning it here to other disciplines. 31 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,360 ‫It is very, very high speed. 32 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,590 ‫It's notoriously good at making fast applications. 33 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:17,310 ‫It has access to all areas and all functionality within Unreal, whereas Blueprint has limits to what 34 00:02:17,310 --> 00:02:20,610 ‫it can do and it is good for bigger projects. 35 00:02:20,610 --> 00:02:25,410 ‫It's much more easy to write a big game in C++ than it is to do so. 36 00:02:25,410 --> 00:02:29,970 ‫In Blueprint, you often get tripped up with Blueprint for various reasons. 37 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:36,150 ‫Now, Blueprint in C++ can and should work together most of the functionality. 38 00:02:36,150 --> 00:02:41,820 ‫The Unreal libraries are written in C++, but that doesn't mean you can't access them from blueprints. 39 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:48,900 ‫In fact, you can pretty much access anything that you make available to blueprints, and you can also 40 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:53,880 ‫add your own C++ functionality that then your blueprints can use as well. 41 00:02:53,880 --> 00:03:00,270 ‫So this can create a system that of cooperating blueprints and C++ that allows you to make the best 42 00:03:00,270 --> 00:03:01,290 ‫of both worlds. 43 00:03:02,250 --> 00:03:08,280 ‫Now in this course, we are planning on in the next section, teaching you the fundamentals of unreal, 44 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,160 ‫the unreal concepts and game development concepts you need. 45 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:15,840 ‫We're also going to teach you the fundamental programming concepts you need to understand we're going 46 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,380 ‫to do this in Blueprint because it doesn't matter what programming language we use. 47 00:03:19,410 --> 00:03:27,420 ‫These concepts are applicable to all programming languages, and then after that we are going to install 48 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:34,800 ‫the compilers, the editors that we need for C++, and we're going to learn the C++ syntax, which is 49 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:41,370 ‫the way that we type C++ to express the programming concepts we learnt in the previous section. 50 00:03:41,460 --> 00:03:46,570 ‫So if you are feeling like you just want to skip ahead and learn the C++. 51 00:03:46,590 --> 00:03:47,430 ‫Hold your horses. 52 00:03:47,430 --> 00:03:49,350 ‫Let's see if you can. 53 00:03:49,350 --> 00:03:53,910 ‫So in the next section, we're going to be learning programming basics with blueprints. 54 00:03:53,910 --> 00:03:54,660 ‫That's variables. 55 00:03:54,660 --> 00:04:00,810 ‫If statements of functions, basic maths concepts such as vectors, transforms and rotations, unreal 56 00:04:00,810 --> 00:04:07,050 ‫core concepts such as actors, components, pawns and maps and asset management such as the marketplace, 57 00:04:07,050 --> 00:04:10,560 ‫importing your assets, BSP, modeling and adding materials. 58 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:16,260 ‫If all of that sounds like Yep, I've got that, Sam, I can totally do all of that. 59 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:18,390 ‫Then feel free to skip the next section. 60 00:04:18,390 --> 00:04:21,240 ‫You can dive right in to learning C++. 61 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:27,030 ‫If you're a bit unsure and would like to know a bit more about these concepts, then please follow along 62 00:04:27,030 --> 00:04:29,160 ‫and I will see you in the next section.