Create A Survival Game in Unreal Engine 5 - Beginner Series (Part 1)

Learn to setup your first person character by importing a pickaxe asset model, setting up a skeletal mesh and implementing them both into first person animations in the very first episode of our Unreal Engine 5 survival game tutorial series!
The first 7 lessons of this course are free, so you'll be able to setup the foundations of your survival game. If you want more, you can access the full course over on our website.
● Access the FULL COURSE on our website: virtushub.com/p/learning
● DOWNLOAD ASSETS: tinyurl.com/survivalassets
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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Create Project
2:11 - Import Assets
4:55 - Import Animations
6:48 - Animations
9:01 - Importing The Pickaxe
12:08 - Attaching The Pickaxe
15:31 - Fine-tuning The Attachment
17:14 - Outro
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[@VirtusEdu]

Hey all, just wanted to provide a quick update on the survival game course. We want to ensure that we can focus on the quality and frequency of the training material to ensure the best training value possible and to ensure that we can meet the demand of the community. With that being said, we're putting the survival game course on a temporary hold until we can deliver the first person shooter course in it's entirety so we can focus all of our efforts on the survival game course to do it the justice it deserves. We're planning to get the FPS course complete with high quality training as soon as possible and we'll keep you all up to date on the survival course.

[@baconGod1101]

when will it be done

[@baconGod1101]

to get the course for this

[@HELLOEDDISON]

There arent even any new episodes in the fps course so i think i wasted money on 2 courses

[@realBritakee]

Smart Poly IS the better option

[@Metigart890]

dude i dont have any animations

[@tubeamprandy]

I've been following you on the UE4 survival tutorial and went pretty far. Nice to see the face behind this awesome series. I will check this one out as well. Thank you

[@wildsword9166]

So glad to see Virtus back. You were the first one big tutorial channel which kickstarted my journey. Lets do this one more time

[@TCMabe]

As a content creator for UE tutorials myself … I can say it’s hard to not have some cross overs and similar tutorials … there is only so much to cover. What you hopefully find is an instructor that covers something you are interested in. Virtus Learning Hub has always been a great source for easy to digest tutorials. There are many other great resources too and it’s best to view as many as you can. I learn something new from almost every tutorial I watch.

[@VirtusEdu]

[@baconGod1101]

i cant wait to continue this course

[@cyanide2426]

This is probably the best course I’ve watched it’s super easy to follow along

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad to hear! More to come...

[@DavidGWilliams1981]

Ideas I'd like to see: 1. Creating blueprints for items to build with assets, like a wood fence blueprint you can place in game, then pick up logs you cut down from a tree, and place them in the blueprint to complete it. 2. Fishing, getting a fishing rod and fishing line and hook to cast into water, have fish nibble but not always bite the first time it comes close, catch a fish, reel it in with a chance for the fish to escape.

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey David, the inventory and chopping down trees is a planned feature, crafting too!

[@christianrichardr]

Hi again, Im watching all your videos, I think to make an inventory system is very important, also to make some crafting to make tools and weapons.

[@jayagusto9409]

I'd like to see item stats change animations, like swinging a dagger as opposed to a sword or pick. Or how to make items effect stats in general.

[@VirtusEdu]

What's up everybody, welcome to the first episode of our Unreal Engine 5 survival course series. Let us know what you want to see from this course in the comments below because we are continually updating based on what YOU want to see! If you need support or want to collaborate, join our discord with over 6,000 amazing game developers: www.discord.gg/virtushub

[@ejazahmad9189]

Great video 🖤

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@MooreMoDz]

Good video! 🤠

[@Sketching4Sanity]

Much Love ✊🏿

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@1015AK]

I hate that you just say copy my settings, but dont explain why that is important. It will never teach someone to do something on their own, they will just do what you do and they will be stuck in tutorial hell. If the paid lessons are like rhis, its not worth any money. This is definitely free tier content.

[@joshwilson_AGameMaker88]

hi there i ran into a problem where it wouldn't let me connect the pickaxe to the mesh it is because of inherited component and I don't know how to fix it please help me

[@adelwardmesserschmitt7235]

Very good thank you. Greetings from Austria.

[@VirtusEdu]

No problem!

[@sameermardini2789]

Nice! Good!

[@JoachimGames]

cant wait

[@trypresident774]

Does this work in third person I see every creator makin fps but what about tps when will they b more of them type of tutorials course

[@fayvampire]

17:00 the camera is to close to my hands i can look at the ground see the pickaxe's shadow but unless i rotate it out ridiculously in front of my fingers i can't see the pickaxe.

[@notjohn6841]

keep up the good work brother. Are you on Patreon?

[@slinginlead4886]

i have tried this totorial but my camera is way further into the arms then yours so i cant see my arms is there a way to move the camera back ? when i try to move it my arms go with it do quite stuck fyi im using UE 5.1.1

[@scuba--]

Sounds cool! I'm in

[@VirtusEdu]

Glad to have you on board!

[@slojo3377]

did i miss something? where you getting downloading the blueprints from?

[@EliteInExile]

I followed the steps to attach the pickaxe to a custom animation I made in Unreal, but it doesn't move with the arms, what might I be doing wrong? Edit: It's definitely the animation that will not allow the pickaxe to follow the hand positions, and I'm not sure what I need to do to allow the item to follow.

[@erkanersiz8108]

If you have cant see the pickaxe in the camera view, you should comeback to BP first person and sellect first person mesh and move arms.

[@mikerguitarwolfgaming4206]

Does this work with the VR game creator too?

[@98999j]

Is this an actual series to help you build a real game or just a marketing ploy to get you to buy something

[@oswuldleofricvivadirr3839]

i have to say this is top notch had me and my misses in fits of laughter as i messed things right up.....i cant see a pickaxe but i can see its shadow......im not a noob honest

[@nicholaschaneyofficialyt]

it wont let me add the animation files for the pickaxe into the folder

[@BomboCLUx]

I cant drag the pickaxe.FBX into the Pickaxe folder

[@user-nj4dd6qi7l]

I can't download the assets, it says that the site can't be reached

[@user-vr6qh5sk2i]

Can u show us how to do first person cutscenes?

[@jeramiahgentry4660]

Ur site states this class is closed for enrollment, how am I sposed to take ur course if that’s the case???

[@oO_A_n_6_e_L_Oo]

It wont let me drag the pickaxe down.. it shows a red crossed circle please help.

[@GorblinRat]

Very cool

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@arkemal]

Does anyone have issues with the PickAxeRunLoop? Mine looks a bit funky on some frames (the arm position is reversed) I've unticked "Import Mesh", set the Skeleton to "SK_Mannequin_Arms_Skeleton" and ticked "Force Front XAxis" ps: the 3 other animations work fine thanks

[@noliebowtie1315]

He cover's it in the 2nd tutorial video. Apparently, it is just an Unreal bug that doesn't actually show up in the viewport.

[@arkemal]

@@noliebowtie1315 oh thanks, I have to watch the second video now then :p

[@baconGod1101]

yah

[@crookedsaint9544]

is it safe to say this course wont be coming back at all?

[@nederino222]

0:32 is that terraria mount sound?

[@ianwicker2090]

i really dont understand why it has a first, and third person template. why not just the third person with a switchable camera view for all the templates could it really be that difficult?

[@hampuslundberg7291]

The engine crashes when i drag and drop the animations. Any sulotions?

[@MrGaming-un6wk]

Bro where the F word do u get the thing in the folder I'm new to this what do you tap on like 3:37m ind i don't understand. It has gotten me mad bro I've hat to sit here for like 1 hour and even gotten my friends to help me we are new but still man

[@philpickett9593]

I'm new to this. In the start of the video the arms are in the pickaxe carry position. Using ue 5.1.1 the game starts without showing the arms. Following the steps the arms and pickaxe are not displayed. Am I missing something? However it does work with 5.0.3.

[@slinginlead4886]

same here bro also UE 5.1.1 so it seems the cameras position is different from the older videion

[@slapworthygames]

@@slinginlead4886 also ran into this issue

[@slinginlead4886]

i had to delete the camera and place a new camera and reposition the camera

[@Vaeroth]

I'm interested in this course but I am curious if it's SP only or will this be for Multiplayer as well?

[@monster6236]

Also interested in this.

[@VirtusEdu]

This course will only be for single player

[@AWetPanda]

@@VirtusEdu I would heavily recommend towards the end of this series or even a split series using these tutorials and progress on how to run basic multiplayer nodes or explanation or anything to assist us with that. Even if it is just peer to peer and not server hosted related.

[@jkkrugaa1785]

In Fine-tuning the attachment section, when I was about to change the parent socket, a "cannot change socket on inherited components" message popped up. This is literally my first day learning Unreal Engine 5 and I've tried searching for a solution but to no avail. Do you guys have any suggestions?

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey, if you join our Discord there are loads of Unreal developers that know a lot about these things and will be happy to help you :)

[@trypresident774]

An is this multiplayer r single player

[@marcusmanningtv]

Awesome

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@DertyDub]

Great

[@AhsanRaza29]

I love you 💖

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@arkemal]

I'm in!

[@VirtusEdu]

Enjoy!

[@OwningZombies101]

i started a third person one and added first person view with a metahuman character how do i do this if i dont have the sk_mannequin_arms file

[@VirtusEdu]

Start a first person project and migrate the file into your original third person project

[@brianserranocorona3332]

my Babbage Difference Engine set on fire

[@MohamedGamal-jy8pl]

best ue dev channel ever

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[@roartherabbit9135]

9:33 is glitched ???

[@TGP2706]

is anyone else having issues importing all of the assets I do what he does but it wont let me import the pickaxe into ue5 if anyone could help that would be great.

[@TheVoidedDeveloper]

Same here.🤔

[@omerk_k]

I have a problem..... HELPP The pickaxe fits the hand, but when I press the play button, only the shadow of pickaxe appears on the ground. Please continue the episode.....🙏🙏🙏

[@chabbershaw]

I have this same problem too. In fact, just the out-of-the-box first person template doesn't even show the hands.

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Long time watcher here. Virtus, I love your videos, but please, for the love of GOD, finish this series by ending with a fully completed game. I have like, half a dozen projects that are sitting incomplete from when you just decided to stop making videos for them. I know content creation is difficult, but following you for 40, 50, 60+ videos only to have it end with no resolution is so frustrating. My survival horror game, my 2D sidescroller game...are very sad face in their half finished state. At the very least, please have the project in the final video mirror the project in the series' thumbnail. You're a great tutorialist and inspirationalist, but completion isn't your strong suit. However, I believe that together, we can overcome this deficiency and work towards an amazing completed project! Who's with me!?

[@paraflax9198]

You have to buy the remainder of the series.

[@Hassan-mv2eu]

Would u create whole game? You've started alot more games but never completed them.

[@VirtusEdu]

I'm uploading the first 7 episodes for free, but you'll be able to find the full course on my website where you will be able to learn how to make a complete survival game

[@Hassan-mv2eu]

@@VirtusEdu thanks alot.

[@SweatyCubes]

@@VirtusEdu Unfortunately, the full course on your website is nowhere near enough to make a complete survival game. This is a very early partial course as apposed to the advertised full course. Additions should not only be added based off of user feedback.

[@kumarabhinaw2197]

💙

[@FrenchieTime1225]

it won't let me drop in any files. does anyone know why?

[@k.w.a.s]

the assets are zipped

[@AndiTheNonartist]

i need help, i cannot drag and drop it into unreal engine

[@IceFX_Anime_edits_ig]

same

[@IceFX_Anime_edits_ig]

i just figured out how to fix it, you have to extract the files then it will work

[@LukeVlogs12]

your website is down

[@InspireRiseMotivation8]

But Please Complete Fps Series Fast

[@fayvampire]

10:10 when i opened it up at first my camera arms were dangling and wiggling like a horror film.

[@VirtusEdu]

We'll cover that in our survival horror course ;)

[@this_]

Virtus please Finish courses you've already started

[@VirtusEdu]

All of the Unreal Engine 5 courses that we've started have been finished. If you're talking about the RPG/FPS courses in Unreal Engine 4, both of those courses have over 50 videos and is considered finished.

[@richardhensley233]

@@VirtusEdu What about the Survival Course on your website?

[@fuzzypanda1684]

Appreciate the reply and love the content, but your survival horror and 2D sidescroller series were totally left unfinished. It's your channel and you can complete what you want, so no judgement here, but you can't say they were finished lol. Honestly, I'll watch pretty much any series you produce regardless, but it would be nice to have a fully completed project at the end, or at least a final video summarizing what we've done and announcing that the series is over. If my memory is correct, both of those series' last video ended with "in the next video, we'll ......" but the next video never came.

[@berryerpacic9995]

17:27 ... well thats a lie... 🤣🤣🤣

[@JoeTheSpaceGuy]

Are we copying Smart Poly now, eh?

[@2009142]

Looks like an unfortunate coincidence! Virtus has a bunch of videos already made/up on the site (not just on KZbin) for this survival series. Curious if there was a chance at a potential collab 💔

[@dvs9006]

Yeah for profit

[@firexpro9084]

Atleast he Virtus doesn't charge money

[@JoeTheSpaceGuy]

@@firexpro9084 Guess you didn’t press the link in the description. Course is $25

[@devcor]

Don't know about Smart Poly (thx for the tip), but Ryan Laley sure did this some time ago. Wonder how different this one will be.

[@alexanderalikin1210]

UPD: the issue is fixed now. see the comments below Telling people you can download assets without actually telling them that you have to buy a course in order to download them is just dumb and disrespectful towards your subscribers.

[@2009142]

You don’t need to buy it I don’t think. I believe you just need to enrol to get the assets since that’s where they’re hosted

[@alexanderalikin1210]

@@2009142 when you enroll, it asks you to pay.

[@2009142]

@@alexanderalikin1210 I’ll message him about that, I don’t think that should be the case

[@2009142]

@@alexanderalikin1210 should be good now!

[@VirtusEdu]

@@alexanderalikin1210 Hi, I can confirm you do not need to pay to download the assets and follow along with the videos on the KZbin. Enjoy!

[@dotskytv5768]

😁😁 🙌🙌😸😸

[@bolod1428]

jebac disa

[@arina9434]

✖✖✖ ❤

[@_p4n0s_]

It should be mentioned that we will be receiving an incomplete tutorial for free and we'll have to pay for the course later, so people can decide at the beginning whether they want to invest valuable time.

[@fuzzypanda1684]

I'd happily pay for a complete series, but as far as I'm aware he doesn't offer complete series, not even behind a pay wall. His survival horror series, his 2D sidescroller series, they just ended mid completion. I'd have happily paid for the remaining episodes if they were available but I never even saw that option. Where do you see the option to purchase the remainder of those series?

[@_p4n0s_]

@@fuzzypanda1684 If you scroll down through the comments, you'll find a reply from him saying he offers the first 7 episodes of every series for free on KZbin, and then the course becomes paid on his site.

[@OldCaka]

😉 😆 📛

[@enriebenoi9638]

❌😺😺

[@akwirtv]

✔😍😍👁👁👁

[@AlessandraAlves-ei4dw]

🇨 😇😇😇

[@oplgodofficial506]

🇪🇪🇪

[@bilalrao7766]

💙🗨🗨🗨 💤💤

[@donattt]

😗😗 🇨🇨🇨

[@FunnyAhhClipz]

🙀🙀 ❎❎

[@muratkazkuslu6765]

Wallah das funtioniert nicht bruder willst du mich verarschen oder was bruder ja

[@TinkeringNoob]

safe to say never going to finish any of these courses. Do not bother following

[@Rehd66]

Unfortunately my right arm is glitching a little on the run animation. I already re-imported and checked settings. It looks like the shoulder is out of socket :)

[@chopaigameplay]

me too

[@Rehd66]

@@chopaigameplay I had to go find different animations

[@azam166]

were Where do you get the animation?

[@azam166]

@@chopaigameplay Where do you get the animation?

[@Rehd66]

@@azam166 bought them on marketplace. One guy has a whole set of mining animations that are very good

[@bwustinbweem]

my pickaxe works and everthing but my fingers are all messed up lol looks like a zombie hand or something

[@armaniac847]

same here, Might be something to do with a new version of unreal? not sure

[@OldSchool4K]

I have a idea for videogame i called the day before ajiajia