WEBVTT 00:07.160 --> 00:08.050 Welcome. 00:08.060 --> 00:08.780 All right. 00:08.780 --> 00:11.060 So I have my start up project here. 00:11.060 --> 00:12.620 It's called Aura. 00:12.770 --> 00:15.800 And so far it's just a blueprint project. 00:15.800 --> 00:19.370 It doesn't have any cplusplus classes or files. 00:19.460 --> 00:23.360 It doesn't have a Visual Studio solution or anything like that. 00:23.390 --> 00:29.330 What it does have is assets and we'll be using these assets throughout the course. 00:29.330 --> 00:36.260 Now we can take a look at those by opening Aura, and this is what the project looks like. 00:36.500 --> 00:39.920 I have an input device detected warning. 00:39.920 --> 00:42.200 I'm going to go ahead and check that checkbox. 00:42.200 --> 00:43.670 So we don't see that again. 00:43.670 --> 00:47.930 And we have just a basic level called startup map. 00:47.930 --> 00:52.880 And in the content drawer I see that I have an assets and a maps folder. 00:52.910 --> 00:54.470 There's that startup map. 00:54.470 --> 00:56.570 It's set as the default map. 00:56.570 --> 01:03.170 If we go to edit and project settings and maps and modes, we see that it's the editor startup map as 01:03.170 --> 01:04.760 well as the game default map. 01:04.760 --> 01:08.940 So that's the only map in our project so far. 01:08.940 --> 01:15.840 And we have the assets folder which contains all of the assets that we'll be using throughout the course. 01:15.840 --> 01:18.540 So I encourage you to take a look at those. 01:18.540 --> 01:24.870 If you'd like to see which assets will be using as we develop the project, the character for the course 01:24.870 --> 01:26.250 is going to be Aura. 01:26.250 --> 01:28.200 Here's her skeletal mesh. 01:28.200 --> 01:35.490 As you can see, it's rigged to the epic mannequin hierarchy, and Aura is quite detailed. 01:35.490 --> 01:41.460 And we also have some animations for Aura, which we'll be using in her animation blueprint when we 01:41.490 --> 01:42.330 set that up. 01:42.330 --> 01:44.970 So we'll get to all that soon enough. 01:44.970 --> 01:50.100 But if you like, take some time to go through the assets and see what we've got. 01:50.160 --> 01:53.820 Now, this video is really just our project setup. 01:53.820 --> 01:59.820 We're going to set some preferences, fill out our copyright notice and things like that. 01:59.820 --> 02:07.470 Now you can use whichever you choose throughout this course that's compatible with Unreal Engine. 02:07.470 --> 02:10.500 I'm going to be using Jetbrains Writer. 02:10.500 --> 02:18.420 So what I'd like to do is go to edit and editor preferences and search for source code and find source 02:18.420 --> 02:19.500 code editor. 02:19.500 --> 02:26.310 I like to keep my source code editor setting to writer project, so I'm making sure that that's what 02:26.310 --> 02:33.330 it's set to and I can open my project with writer in order to edit the source code. 02:33.330 --> 02:36.060 So that's one setting that I'd like to set. 02:36.060 --> 02:42.600 Now I'm also going to be developing this project with live coding disabled, so I'm going to go back 02:42.600 --> 02:48.660 to editor preferences and search for live coding and uncheck enable live coding. 02:48.660 --> 02:55.110 I've found that things work smoothest when I work without live coding, so I'm going to compile from 02:55.110 --> 02:57.940 the IDE directly every time. 02:57.960 --> 03:06.180 Another setting that I'd like to change is automatically compile newly added C plus plus classes. 03:06.180 --> 03:07.800 This is under hot reload. 03:07.800 --> 03:09.360 I'm going to uncheck that. 03:09.480 --> 03:13.530 I don't want Unreal Engine automatically compiling anything. 03:13.530 --> 03:15.720 I want full control over that. 03:15.720 --> 03:18.750 So that's the setting that I prefer. 03:18.780 --> 03:20.310 Feel free to follow along. 03:20.310 --> 03:24.450 Exactly, if you like now, because I'll be using writer. 03:24.450 --> 03:32.430 I need to go into edit and plugins and search for writer and we can see that writer integration is checked. 03:32.550 --> 03:39.960 And finally I'll go back to Project Settings and I'm going to fill out my copyright notice as this results 03:39.960 --> 03:45.510 in a very annoying comment at the top of each of our header and CPP files. 03:45.510 --> 03:53.700 So I'm just going to say copyright Druid mechanics as that's my company and you can fill this out with 03:53.700 --> 03:55.200 anything you like here. 03:55.200 --> 04:00.600 I would just like this to be different than that default message that it was at before. 04:00.780 --> 04:07.200 Now, one last thing that I'd like to set is I'm going to go into edit editor preferences again right 04:07.200 --> 04:13.260 here under general appearance, and I'm going to make sure Asset Editor Open location is set to main 04:13.260 --> 04:15.340 window when it's set to default. 04:15.340 --> 04:21.300 Then every time you open an asset such as a blueprint, it opens in a new window. 04:21.300 --> 04:26.940 But when it's set to main window, it'll open docked at the top here, which is what I prefer. 04:26.940 --> 04:34.110 So now that I've got this project set up to my own preferences, we can now add our first C plus plus 04:34.110 --> 04:38.400 class and we'll go ahead and do that in the videos to come. 04:38.400 --> 04:42.450 So in the meantime, if you'd like, browse through the assets that we have in here. 04:42.450 --> 04:49.830 We have sounds, textures, UI, particle systems, meshes, animations and environment assets that 04:49.830 --> 04:51.300 we'll be using throughout the course. 04:51.300 --> 04:53.310 So really exciting stuff. 04:53.310 --> 04:56.580 Check those out and I'll see you in the next video.