Unreal Engine 5 – Traversal Parkour System using Blueprints

Beginner Friendly Course to build a Traversal Parkour system for Third Person and Lyra (Blueprints / Motion Warping/ IK)

Created by: Braveior Studios
Instructor at Udemy

Created by: Make A Real One
Instructor at Udemy

What Will I Learn?

• Learn how to effectively use the different Tracing Techniques in Unreal Engine (Sphere, Line, Capsule, Box) to understand the Environment and make decisions.
• Understand the Vector Maths behind Complex Traversal Systems like Parkour in the most simplest way possible in a Beginner Friendly way.
• Get a good Foundation in Unreal Engine Basics used in this Course before Starting the Actual Traversal Parkour Component with a Workshop of Simpler examples
• Using the Free Animations from Mixamo, Adding the Root Bone and Retarget them for Unreal Engine 5. Several Usecases to demonstrate the process.
• Learn Inverse Kinematics (IK) techniques to dynamically modify the animations during the gameplay to interact with the Environment.
• How to use Motion Warping to use the Root Motion in the Animations to dynamically move the character during the Animation.
• Animation Montages and Anim Notifies.
• Using Gameplay Tags to Manage States, Types and Actions.
• Using DataAssets to effectively simplify Configuration.
• How to design Helper Functions to organize the Project.
• Learn how to integrate the Traversal Component in Lyra Sample Game.

Requirements

• Basic Knowledge in Unreal Engine and Blueprints
• Unreal Engine 5.3 pre installed
• Good Gaming PC capable of running Unreal Engine 5.2. Please check the Minimum PC Specifications for Unreal Engine
• Readiness to explore further, do Hands-on and Research on the topic

Target audience

• Beginner or Intermediate Unreal Engine Game Developers interested in exploring new areas
• Unreal Engine Game Developers looking to apply the Blueprint features to build innovative Systems.
• Absolute Beginners in Unreal Engine ready to Research and do Hands-on to learn new approaches to speed up their Knowledge gathering process.
• Unreal Engine Developers who wants to build their own Components and Products for Video game Development