The best places to learn Unreal in 2023

Where should I go to start learning unreal engine? This is a guide for beginners who are starting to learning UE
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Creators mentioned: @JonathanWinbush @WilliamFaucher @PrismaticaDev @MathewWadsteinTutorials @evansbohl @RikkuVR @UnrealSensei
01:03 Tip - Write down your learning goals before you start
01:29 Epic Dev Community
03:23 KZbin (Free)
04:52 Udemy ("Sale")
06:17 Tip - Learn in community
06:44 Epic Certified Trainers
07:22 Unreal SubReddit
07:45 Discord Servers
08:21 Artstation Learning
08:26 Flipped Normals
08:33 Rebelway
08:48 This channel!
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[@WoodyDevs]

Hey did I forget any great resources? What are they???

[@KeysOfPerfection]

I think @RyanLaley does good work.

[@WoodyDevs]

@@KeysOfPerfection He does. I'm gonna do a whole youtuber round-up sometime

[@Justlivin00]

SmartPoly seems to do a good job

[@bonebard6178]

Royal skies is a guy known for making extremely short quality blender tutorials but had branched into other software like z brush and has just started unreal. And when I say short I mean do you want to learn inverse kinematics in 2 minutes or maybe make a specific type of texture in 10 seconds so I'm super excited. He did some stuff with unity but it wasnt to much but he wants to commit to unreal now

[@WoodyDevs]

@@Madinu Have you found it useful for unreal engine stuff? A lot of it's data is capped from before UE5

[@haxcrossoverit]

Thanks a lot! This video is honestly wonderful, just what I needed it the most, thank you!

[@shetkar911]

love you mate looking forward to more videos on UE. this helped me a lot.

[@kankles6569]

New to Unreal. I've already found a few videos of your very helpful, so I'm subscribing!

[@RedWitherITA]

This video came out exactly when I needed it! it's always so frustrating getting stuck in Unreal Engine because I can't find a good way to solve a problem or implement a feature, thank you for the video!

[@Wizastudios]

This is awesome. I’ve been wanting to learn UR and Vtube with it for live virtual production. I think I can learn so much from your channel.

[@GoodguyGastly]

Thank you for this! Lots of cool resources here

[@toantruong9203]

Pure gold content, thank you.

[@Megasteakman]

Another great video, I think this will help a lot of people!

[@epoxy32]

Thanks man, I just started my game development bachelor and couldn't find the good tutorials on youtube as i did for unity.

[@DankSoss]

Your channel is very helpful!

[@unknowno1802]

Tanx for ur big help man

[@JonathanWinbush]

Appreciate the shout my friend 🤙🏾

[@WoodyDevs]

Dude, you're a legend. Thanks for everything you do!

[@ethanwasme4307]

if anyone else is a self taught hobbyist what helped me was learning about design patterns, soft referencing, async, writing tests and learning how to make a ULM charts before during and after anything major or creative... also commenting every major node helped in the early days and don't neglect learning shader languages... if you're new to programming i would even suggest starting here 😊

[@DrN0VA.]

Let me just clarify, while fundimentally UE4 & 5 are quite similar with a lot of their functionality, much of the UI has changed making guides from UE4 irrelevant - sometimes even with 5.0 vs 5.1 guides. So while you can definitely use UE4 tutorials just know that a lot of the Ui will not work in the same way.

[@cinamynj]

As a barebones beginner UE4 tuts make little sense to me, because the UI is so different

[@ethanwasme4307]

​@@cinamynjyeah if you're new don't bother... if you're great with the UI then by all means

[@MalikFrost12]

Yeah I would say to try to filter by newer courses or updated course as often as you can. Some things are transferable, but some others are not at all and will lead you to legacy errors.

[@joel6376]

From a coding perspective (as a non-coder), learning OOP fundamentals was important. Tutorials generally do not talk about this aspect at all, yet it seems to often be why people have problems with learning - at least the level I am at looking for solutions to my own problems.

[@samramtv]

What is OOP?

[@joel6376]

@@samramtv Object oriented programming

[@ethanwasme4307]

design patterns and uml charts is good too

[@JonJagsNee]

10/10 I second all of these resources :D

[@WoodyDevs]

Of all people, that means a lot! Thanks Jags

[@evansbohl]

Hey WoodyDevs! Thank you so much for the shoutout! 😁 I discovered your content a few weeks ago and I like it a lot 😊

[@WoodyDevs]

That means a lot man! I admire you so much as a teacher!

[@evansbohl]

@@WoodyDevs Thank you! 🙏😊

[@az-ru2084]

I started with Ute my for very basics and after that KZbin is most helpful

[@invadorop]

Please recommend a good place to learn c++ for unreal engine

[@nospimi99]

Does anyone know of any KZbin channels that have videos where they just focus on teaching how to implement one key feature in a game. Like a 20 minute video that shows how to implement hit stun. Or a 15 minute video tutorializing how to add a wall jump to your character. The only channel I can find that does this is @CodeCobra but he sadly doesn’t have too many videos like this and I burned through them quick. I love these videos cause they usually aren’t made for brand new entry learners so it’s not a ton of retreaded ground, I usually learn about new nodes and functions, plus they can be simple concepts that can usually be applied to other instances too.

[@rainbowrollsz9527]

Matt aspland and gorka games

[@botcampeador428]

What a Great video, thank you so much!! The tutorials from a year ago, for example Unreal Sensei's ones, are up to date or Unreal has made major changes?

[@WoodyDevs]

His Unreal 5 tutorial should work nicely. Maybe one or two things moved. 5.1+ will definitely have upgrades.

[@awharlan90]

Ive actually only started learning unreal engine a little over a month ago. I made a model in fusion 360 but now I need to texture it. I dont know where to start. Textures and materials seem so confusing

[@WoodyDevs]

Fusion is really cool. I like it a lot, but I would probably never use it for unreal stuff. It's really hard to texture stuff made in parametric design software unless you really like doing UV placement.

[@dogamer238]

How did you get the charater

[@WoodyDevs]

I made it in blender! I have a whole tutorial series on how to do this if you're interested :)

[@lukefrohling]

Um... Unreal Engine 4 is vastly different to UE5 - the lighting, HUD, and a ton of smaller things are different between them. It'll trip up the newbies who are looking for EXACT help and don't know enough to work around problems

[@ethanwasme4307]

as someone who's spent an hour in unreal 5, vastly is a bit of a stretch 😅 though i wouldn't suggest newbies try follow ue4 tuts

[@thesyndicatea.t.k7528]

HELLNO UE4 IS NOT LIKE UE5, i've been looking for a way to make a simple asset gun(rifle) work with fps arms and i cant find a single tutorial that works for 5.2 im just frustrated with this

[@solidgalaxy3339]

Do i have to learn coding for UN?

[@mikedoeren5960]

You could learn visual scripting, which doesn't require coding.

[@DoctorSoulis]

What about Unity?

[@wiliestrogue2924]

Unity is dead.

[@messengercreator]

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[@BlarLarable-bx3xr]

i find your avatar to detract from the video significantly

[@DrHippo]

Heeeyyy where am I on that list?? :P But seriously, congrats on your growing channel! Personally when I need to learn something about Unreal it's 90% of the time gonna happen on KZbin, 10% of the time on Reddit. My own experience with Discord is that I often never get a reply and the few times I did it wasn't all that usefull, so I only post there if I'm really desperate. It seems very active though so maybe I just don't know how to get the best out of it *shrug*. I've never seen a course so far about something I couldn't find on KZbin or other places for free 😁, but I guess it's usefull if you want a more consistent and longer series of videos that takes you from a to z instead of looking for 15 places to get the same thing for free. Recently ChatGPT has also been a huge help ( when it gets it right 😅). Anyways great video! Keep at it :)

[@WoodyDevs]

You definitely belong on the list. The one in the video was by no means conclusive! This is great feedback, thanks for giving your experience in depth!

[@DrHippo]

@WoodyDevs I was joking 😅 but thanks anyway 🙏 and np, it can be a jungle to sort through when you get started 😖

[@thestandardtechnique]

Is @SmartPoly one of those good KZbin educators?

[@WoodyDevs]

Incredibly good!

[@gSquare67]

yess