1 00:00:04,230 --> 00:00:05,300 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,310 --> 00:00:12,750 ‫In this lecture we are going to be adding in an asset pack with a whole bunch of beautiful assets such 3 00:00:12,750 --> 00:00:18,360 ‫as this great level here, which is going to be a fantastic starting point for our first person shooter, 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:24,480 ‫as well as character assets, guns, particle effects and more. 5 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,850 ‫So let's dive in and see how to do that. 6 00:00:27,150 --> 00:00:33,240 ‫Now, before we get stuck into creating anything unreal related, let's go and download the asset packets 7 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,180 ‫in three separate zip files against this lecture. 8 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:37,590 ‫Part one, part two and part three. 9 00:00:37,590 --> 00:00:39,540 ‫Each one about a gigabyte in size. 10 00:00:39,540 --> 00:00:42,660 ‫So it might take a little while to download depending on your connection speed. 11 00:00:42,670 --> 00:00:44,460 ‫So do get started on that. 12 00:00:44,460 --> 00:00:47,970 ‫And once they have downloaded you can go about extracting them. 13 00:00:47,970 --> 00:00:51,330 ‫The way to do this is to just extract them all into the same folder. 14 00:00:51,330 --> 00:00:54,600 ‫No matter whether you're using a windows or Mac, you should be able to do this. 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:01:00,510 ‫You can do this on Windows by doing right click extract all and then just make sure you strip off the 16 00:01:00,510 --> 00:01:06,840 ‫part one at the end of the folder name and hit extract or extract it to any folder of your choosing. 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,220 ‫And it doesn't matter what order you extract these in, you can do part one, then part two and part 18 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:13,920 ‫three, or you can do it in reverse order however you like. 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,340 ‫As long as they all go into the same folder, there's no overlapping files. 20 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:19,770 ‫They're just going to write into that same folder structure. 21 00:01:19,770 --> 00:01:23,130 ‫So extract all, do it for part two as well. 22 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:29,000 ‫And then finally we're going to do the same thing for part three by right clicking, doing an extract 23 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:32,320 ‫all and removing that part three there as well. 24 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:36,660 ‫Well one of them's already finishing for me and you go ahead and do that. 25 00:01:36,660 --> 00:01:41,850 ‫Now, I can't quite emphasize hard enough that there are three separate zip downloads here. 26 00:01:41,850 --> 00:01:47,430 ‫Make sure you get all three and all three of them are extracted into the same folder. 27 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:48,840 ‫That needs to be the same folder. 28 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,970 ‫Otherwise you will not have all of the assets in your project if you've got any problem where you don't 29 00:01:53,970 --> 00:01:57,270 ‫appear to have all of the assets that I have, go back and check. 30 00:01:57,270 --> 00:02:01,530 ‫You had all three zips and all three of them have been extracted into the same folder. 31 00:02:01,530 --> 00:02:08,100 ‫And the final result should be this shutter asset pack inside the folder, which contains itself a shooter 32 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:08,910 ‫asset pack project. 33 00:02:08,910 --> 00:02:11,040 ‫You can see it's popping up the windows as it's finishing. 34 00:02:11,070 --> 00:02:13,890 ‫If you open that up, everything should be working correctly. 35 00:02:13,890 --> 00:02:17,310 ‫If it's not working correctly, haven't go at re extracting them again. 36 00:02:18,010 --> 00:02:18,310 ‫Okay. 37 00:02:18,310 --> 00:02:21,610 ‫So let's get started at the beginning, creating the project. 38 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,780 ‫Now, you've done this a few times before, so I'm going to go through this quickly. 39 00:02:25,870 --> 00:02:29,260 ‫The engine version I'm using is 4.25. 40 00:02:29,290 --> 00:02:33,220 ‫Feel free to use this one or a newer version when doing it for yourself. 41 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:39,550 ‫And we're going to go ahead and, first of all, launch the engine to get our new project creation dialog. 42 00:02:39,670 --> 00:02:43,780 ‫This obviously may take a variable amount of time depending on your setup. 43 00:02:43,780 --> 00:02:46,840 ‫So in the meantime, let's talk about the assets we're going to be using here. 44 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:52,810 ‫We have got a shooter asset pack that we are going to be importing into our project. 45 00:02:52,810 --> 00:02:57,880 ‫And the way we're going to be doing this is it is itself a unreal project. 46 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:03,010 ‫So we're going to migrate the assets out of that project and into your project. 47 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:07,990 ‫Basically, this instead of having a starter project, this is just another way of doing it. 48 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:13,210 ‫And the benefit of this is that if you have got an existing project that you want to use these assets 49 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:17,060 ‫in, you can you can migrate those assets into that project. 50 00:03:17,110 --> 00:03:19,890 ‫So let's create, first of all, a project to start with. 51 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:25,720 ‫Now, you'll notice if this dialog looks unfamiliar to you, it's because it's a little bit new in some 52 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:26,740 ‫newer versions of Unreal. 53 00:03:26,740 --> 00:03:28,510 ‫But don't worry, it's not that different. 54 00:03:28,510 --> 00:03:30,190 ‫Basically has the same options. 55 00:03:30,190 --> 00:03:32,350 ‫We want to select games because that's what we're making. 56 00:03:32,350 --> 00:03:32,860 ‫We're not doing. 57 00:03:32,860 --> 00:03:38,110 ‫Any of these other applications to Unreal is often used for so select games and go to the next screen. 58 00:03:38,110 --> 00:03:41,260 ‫Now it starts to look a bit familiar, so we want a blank project. 59 00:03:41,260 --> 00:03:44,320 ‫Notice there's no tabs here for Blueprint or C++. 60 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,210 ‫Create a blank project. 61 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,020 ‫On this next screen. 62 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:52,620 ‫This is where we have the option to select between Blueprint or C++. 63 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:53,880 ‫I'm going to go for C++. 64 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,510 ‫It's a C++ course, then all these other options are going to leave the same. 65 00:03:57,510 --> 00:04:02,580 ‫I'm not going to add Stata content, although you could, if you wanted to have those extra assets in 66 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:08,550 ‫the starter pack to play around with in your shooter, then I'm going to give my projects a name, which 67 00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:13,260 ‫is going to be simple shooter, the name of this section and I'm already happier. 68 00:04:13,260 --> 00:04:18,510 ‫Got that location set to the right thing, but you can go ahead and change the location to wherever 69 00:04:18,510 --> 00:04:22,170 ‫you want your project to be saved and go ahead and create the project again. 70 00:04:22,170 --> 00:04:24,360 ‫This can take a variable amount of time. 71 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,790 ‫We're going to go back and have a look at the asset pack. 72 00:04:26,790 --> 00:04:34,230 ‫So as I said, it is a new project and in fact, it is it made in version 4.22, if I'm correct, which 73 00:04:34,230 --> 00:04:38,850 ‫means that you can use it as any version greater than 4.22. 74 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:41,640 ‫So we're going to go ahead and open it up. 75 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:47,550 ‫And that just explains why we see this first dialog box that says Select an engine version because the 76 00:04:47,550 --> 00:04:52,590 ‫version of the project itself was not 4.25, so it's just going to do an upgrade. 77 00:04:52,590 --> 00:04:53,310 ‫But that's fine. 78 00:04:53,310 --> 00:04:58,320 ‫We can go ahead and do an upgrade to whatever version you've currently got on your system, and it should 79 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,610 ‫work just fine. 80 00:04:59,610 --> 00:05:04,800 ‫And the zip for this asset pack can be found against this lecture's resources. 81 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,750 ‫So do go ahead and download that get that extracting it can take a little bit of time because there's 82 00:05:09,750 --> 00:05:11,670 ‫quite a lot of heavy assets in there. 83 00:05:11,670 --> 00:05:15,450 ‫Make sure you get that download started while you're watching this video. 84 00:05:15,450 --> 00:05:19,560 ‫Now for the next step we will need to have this discovering assets. 85 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,690 ‫Little dialog have finished discovering all the assets in the project because we can't migrate them 86 00:05:24,690 --> 00:05:26,340 ‫if it doesn't know what they are. 87 00:05:26,490 --> 00:05:32,100 ‫So what we're going to do basically is take this folder here, the asset packs folder. 88 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:33,000 ‫You can go and have a look at it. 89 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,670 ‫There's a few different asset packs that I've aggregated together from the permanently free collection, 90 00:05:38,670 --> 00:05:44,610 ‫from unrealized example projects and some assets of my own, which I have created with my microphone. 91 00:05:44,610 --> 00:05:47,100 ‫And you can go and have a look at it and take a look at any of this. 92 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:50,430 ‫It's quite fun anyway, but we're going to try and migrate this. 93 00:05:50,430 --> 00:05:55,080 ‫Let's right click on the asset pack and hit that migrate button. 94 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,880 ‫So we're doing this at the root folder, so we're migrating all of these folders underneath it. 95 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:06,150 ‫You can see that it's selected them all automatically and we're going to go ahead and click. 96 00:06:06,150 --> 00:06:08,580 ‫Okay, that's all the assets that we want to migrate. 97 00:06:09,030 --> 00:06:16,590 ‫Then what we need to do is go and navigate our way to the content folder of the project we want to import 98 00:06:16,590 --> 00:06:16,980 ‫this into. 99 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:22,920 ‫You can see it's currently in the content folder of the projects that we're importing them from. 100 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:30,730 ‫So the shooter asset pack content is where it currently is, but we want to go to where we've created 101 00:06:30,730 --> 00:06:31,320 ‫the new project. 102 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:37,050 ‫So for me that's under courses and unreal and then the simple shoot that we've just created. 103 00:06:37,050 --> 00:06:42,540 ‫And then you can see that Unreal has created this content folder where all your blueprints and your 104 00:06:42,540 --> 00:06:43,950 ‫assets generally live. 105 00:06:44,580 --> 00:06:47,670 ‫So once you've got that, it's an empty content folder. 106 00:06:47,670 --> 00:06:53,250 ‫We can just go ahead and hit select folder and the copying process is going to start. 107 00:06:53,250 --> 00:06:56,460 ‫Now this can take a little while because there's a few gigs of assets in here. 108 00:06:56,460 --> 00:06:59,850 ‫There's quite a lot of high res assets for you to use. 109 00:07:00,510 --> 00:07:07,410 ‫So once your download is finished, do go ahead and get started on this migration as soon as possible 110 00:07:07,410 --> 00:07:10,620 ‫to bring those assets in to your project. 111 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:11,980 ‫Okay. 112 00:07:11,990 --> 00:07:19,220 ‫So once that is complete, you may get a message saying that some files were not successfully copied. 113 00:07:19,610 --> 00:07:21,380 ‫That may or may not be a problem. 114 00:07:21,380 --> 00:07:22,370 ‫We'll see down the line. 115 00:07:22,370 --> 00:07:27,320 ‫We can always migrate things again if we find that something is missing. 116 00:07:27,530 --> 00:07:30,620 ‫So let's take a brief look at what came in. 117 00:07:30,620 --> 00:07:34,340 ‫We're going to go over to our simple shoe so we can now close down the shoe to asset pack. 118 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:35,660 ‫We no longer need that project. 119 00:07:35,660 --> 00:07:40,700 ‫You can delete it off your downloads if you like, or keep it around in case you want it for something 120 00:07:40,700 --> 00:07:41,180 ‫else. 121 00:07:41,270 --> 00:07:43,070 ‫Now what's in the asset packs? 122 00:07:43,070 --> 00:07:49,700 ‫I think the most interesting things to have a look at are the modular sci fi season one starter bundle, 123 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:51,830 ‫which is in the permanently free collection. 124 00:07:51,830 --> 00:07:53,450 ‫So you could go ahead and download this anyway. 125 00:07:53,450 --> 00:07:59,180 ‫I've just packaged it all together to make it simple, and what we're going to look at is the collection, 126 00:07:59,180 --> 00:08:00,830 ‫maps and map number one. 127 00:08:00,830 --> 00:08:03,170 ‫Go ahead and load that one up. 128 00:08:03,170 --> 00:08:09,530 ‫So once that has opened and it can take a while depending on your machine, for me, it took about five 129 00:08:09,530 --> 00:08:11,720 ‫or 10 minutes to open this map. 130 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,800 ‫But don't worry, once you've opened it, once it's going to be a lot quicker in future. 131 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,040 ‫And what you're going to see is this kind of environment. 132 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,910 ‫At first it might be not particularly pretty, as you can see over here. 133 00:08:22,910 --> 00:08:28,130 ‫That's because we're still compiling the shaders and there's lots of shaders to compile for a scene 134 00:08:28,130 --> 00:08:28,610 ‫like this. 135 00:08:28,610 --> 00:08:32,660 ‫And once that's done, this is going to look super gorgeous and pretty. 136 00:08:32,660 --> 00:08:37,430 ‫So that's what we're aiming to get is into being able to have this level here. 137 00:08:37,430 --> 00:08:39,620 ‫I'm going to make that my default maps. 138 00:08:39,630 --> 00:08:46,250 ‫I'm going to go over to settings, project settings, then to maps and modes, and I'm going to change 139 00:08:46,250 --> 00:08:51,920 ‫over the edit to start up map to be this one, which I think was called map one. 140 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:53,060 ‫So I'm just going to search for it. 141 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:54,290 ‫Same for the game. 142 00:08:54,290 --> 00:09:01,400 ‫Default mode is also going to be map one for now until we create our own and I can go ahead and close 143 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,180 ‫that down. 144 00:09:02,180 --> 00:09:08,960 ‫The other thing I wanted to show you in the asset pack is the Paragon Wraith, which comes from Epic's 145 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,910 ‫cancelled Paragon game. 146 00:09:10,910 --> 00:09:18,230 ‫And if we're going to the Paragon Wraith Characters Heroes folder Wraith, then we're going to see this 147 00:09:18,230 --> 00:09:24,380 ‫guy if we go and have a look at his blueprint character, which again may take a little second to load. 148 00:09:24,380 --> 00:09:30,470 ‫And once that has opened up, you can go to the viewport to have a look at the blueprint and have a 149 00:09:30,470 --> 00:09:32,210 ‫look at the Wraith character. 150 00:09:32,210 --> 00:09:36,230 ‫Now again, compiling shaders so you can't see the shaders on this guy. 151 00:09:36,260 --> 00:09:38,240 ‫He is very pretty once you can. 152 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:40,430 ‫So do go ahead and open all these assets up. 153 00:09:40,430 --> 00:09:45,860 ‫It will start the shader compilation process and you'll be able to see what we're going to be working 154 00:09:45,860 --> 00:09:46,310 ‫with. 155 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,080 ‫So that's it for me. 156 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,550 ‫In this lecture we've set up our project, we've got the assets in, we've had a little poke around 157 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:53,300 ‫and look around. 158 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:54,830 ‫I'll see you in the next lecture.