1 00:00:04,370 --> 00:00:05,150 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,150 --> 00:00:10,730 ‫In this lecture, we're going to be setting up a new project and learning how to open up the level. 3 00:00:10,730 --> 00:00:13,130 ‫Blueprint Editor Let's dive in. 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,750 ‫So a new section means a new project. 5 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:25,340 ‫Let's go ahead and open unreal and get to the project browser like so then what we're going to do is 6 00:00:25,340 --> 00:00:26,600 ‫go to the games tab again. 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:31,730 ‫This time, instead of selecting one of the other templates, we're going to use the blank template 8 00:00:32,390 --> 00:00:40,670 ‫and then select blueprints, desktop maximum and we want this time to check the starter content button, 9 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:45,620 ‫then select your project location and give your project a name. 10 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:48,620 ‫Mine's going to be called Warehouse Wreckage. 11 00:00:48,620 --> 00:00:54,860 ‫There is a limit on how long these project names can be, and you should also avoid any special characters. 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,080 ‫We're going to go ahead and click Create. 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,150 ‫You can see this is the folder where it's creating it. 14 00:00:59,150 --> 00:01:05,450 ‫In fact, you can see it just created my warehouse wreckage folder in here and that shows me my project 15 00:01:05,450 --> 00:01:07,910 ‫file there and the other supporting folders. 16 00:01:07,910 --> 00:01:09,530 ‫There is some interesting stuff. 17 00:01:09,530 --> 00:01:14,090 ‫We've got the content folder where most of our stuff goes and you can see the starter content folder 18 00:01:14,090 --> 00:01:15,560 ‫has been added in here. 19 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:20,930 ‫We can also view from the editor what has been created in the project. 20 00:01:20,930 --> 00:01:24,590 ‫There is a button in the bottom left called the Content Draw. 21 00:01:24,590 --> 00:01:30,560 ‫I'd like you to click that and it opens out this drawer, which is essentially just a file browser for 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:31,880 ‫that content folder. 23 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:37,400 ‫And you can see we can open up the starter content folder and under there we can find the maps. 24 00:01:37,820 --> 00:01:43,400 ‫And the maps are the levels that we that we've got in this game. 25 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:50,720 ‫So currently open is the minimal default level which you can see in the tab in the top left, but you 26 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,260 ‫can open any of these other ones by double clicking on them. 27 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:57,110 ‫They're the ones that I have got a little yellow line. 28 00:01:57,110 --> 00:01:58,880 ‫Those are the maps. 29 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:07,370 ‫I'm going to open up the starter map and you'll notice that your CPU might start its fans going because 30 00:02:07,370 --> 00:02:13,070 ‫it needs to prepare the materials that are available in this scene. 31 00:02:13,070 --> 00:02:17,360 ‫But if you have a look around, you can see that there's a bunch of different materials of different 32 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,900 ‫types as they start to populate, like the sandstone slate. 33 00:02:20,990 --> 00:02:25,460 ‫You might want to use these for materials in your finished game. 34 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:30,080 ‫Just have a little look around and you could do the same thing with the advanced lighting level. 35 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,060 ‫Let's just open it up for completeness sake. 36 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,950 ‫This isn't as useful as it's more of a demo of how to do advanced lighting. 37 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:39,950 ‫And this is the Epic Games parking lot. 38 00:02:39,950 --> 00:02:44,810 ‫So let's open up the content, draw again and go back to our minimal default map. 39 00:02:45,110 --> 00:02:54,230 ‫And what I want to show you is how we can get to the blueprints that lie behind this map or this level. 40 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:00,170 ‫What you do is you go to the toolbar where there are a bunch of boxes connected up by little wires, 41 00:03:00,170 --> 00:03:04,670 ‫and you click that drop down and then click Open Level Blueprint. 42 00:03:04,940 --> 00:03:10,310 ‫What this is going to do is open up a new window with a new editor view. 43 00:03:10,310 --> 00:03:14,960 ‫The main thing that we're interested in here is this central area called the event graph. 44 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:20,930 ‫This is where we're going to write our blueprints and you can close down any of the tabs, the my blueprint 45 00:03:20,930 --> 00:03:23,180 ‫tab, the details tab that's going to distract us. 46 00:03:23,180 --> 00:03:24,470 ‫We don't need those just yet. 47 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:29,270 ‫Can always get them back by resetting our layouts and what we can do. 48 00:03:29,270 --> 00:03:34,550 ‫Just to get a bit of a preview of how much functionality is under the hood here, if we right click 49 00:03:34,550 --> 00:03:41,360 ‫in the event graph, you can see there's a massive long list of just the headings of the functionality. 50 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,820 ‫You can expand this out and there's often headings within headings and these are all bits of functionality 51 00:03:46,820 --> 00:03:53,840 ‫that has been created for us by Unreal that we can just drop in and plug in and use from Blueprint. 52 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,560 ‫And now we've got these two windows open here. 53 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,660 ‫We may want to just have one. 54 00:03:59,660 --> 00:04:05,090 ‫Well, fortunately, you can drag this tab and dock it into the main window. 55 00:04:05,090 --> 00:04:10,190 ‫And you can see now we have two top level tabs, one for the blueprint and one for the level. 56 00:04:10,940 --> 00:04:12,410 ‫That's it for this lecture. 57 00:04:12,410 --> 00:04:15,890 ‫We'll look more at that blueprint functionality in the next one.