Pro Unreal Engine Game Coding (Udemy.com)

This course has been amazing for me but I have to explain the context because I would not recommend starting here if you're new to gamedev and C++. I have been working in Unreal for a couple of years and, while by no means an expert, most courses provide me little value. While this is normal, I still want to see how other teams work, how they architect their systems, and how they solve their problems. And this course delivers on that by walking you through the code of Grip iteratively. I would definitely recommend sticking to Unreal Engine 4.25/4.26 for this course, but don't let that turn you away. Overall, the majority of content you learn in this course is applicable in UE5. But going into 5 they switched from PhysX to their internal Chaos physics, and you will spend so much time figuring out the differences and where to make engine changes that you will miss the forest for the trees.

I am here to learn C++ but I ended up learning physics instead. I thought I will keep going it will eventually become C++ but by lesson 79 I just gave up. Also, the method used wasn't very useful for me. Having a full written code and just listen/watch an overview of some parts of the code, not even all the whole code. This became more like GDC workshop and not a tutorial. A lot of the time wasted talking about the tutor's experience and about how this course structure and method is great. Finally, the tutor is talking too slow making me wanting to sleep. I ended up playing the video at 1.5 speed but also missed out on many things he was showing because of that. The one and half star is for Math chapter can act as a great library or reference. And also for the physics refresher.

As far as I know, this is the most advanced Unreal Engine course ever made. The approach is different from the usual "let's build a simple prototype and have something to show in a few weeks". It is a reverse engineering project for a game that took 4 years to finish, in an ideal situation that will probably never happen in real life. All possible resources are available - in-depth explanations, incremental portions of the code, source code and published game on Steam. Anybody who wants to benefit from this must first realize how incredibly valuable it is and make a sincere effort to understand it. Rob Baker achieved something unique, and he invested a considerable amount of time to share it with the world - almost a year, as I understand it. To say that I am grateful doesn't even begin to describe it. P.S. Mr. Baker, sorry for the flak, just ignore it, it's not worth your time. To put things in perspective, a friend of mine once told me that he would have preferred an imperfect score like mine to his straight A's, which could have been misinterpreted as the outcome of a lenient evaluation.

Rob, you have a new fan. This is the most valuable course I have ever purchased. After hours of source control setup, I was expecting I'll have to follow along like in most of courses, but no, this tutorial is different. All you need to do is listen, read and try to understand, and this is far from easy. And when you think you're getting close to finish, you'll get a couple more links to keep you busy for a while longer. Definitely a course I will be returning to in the future and every serious Unreal coder should really see this. Even if you're a beginner, do check it out, just don't let the complexity get to you, there were moments when I too felt choked by the amount of info, just thinking about how much time it would take to understand every little detail. Just take it slow, at your own pace, leave and return to it until you finish and you'll be happy that you did.

This course is amazing! The Instructor has solid knowledge, and It feels like a senior programmer explaining the concepts to a novice. Got this on discount, and it's one of the best 7 bucks I've spent! With that said, some might find it difficult. The instructor does not hold your hand, he does not hand you bricks and mortar, so that you can build a small house together. Can't blame him, because he's trying to get you to build the great wall of China!!! It'd be impossible to stay with you and hand you bricks till you are finally done. XD What he does however, and does so really well, is show you the plans, explain the pitfalls. I feel that he might have fell flat on his face a few times, and he explains how to not faceplant yourself. It does leave a lot of work on you to do though, you have to work with the instructor's guidelines. Do a thing, get stuck, re watch the lecture, try again... repeat till you solve it... you are trying to be a game Dev after all... You can do the course with UE 4.27 BTW, if anyone else is wondering, you can't use UE 5 as it uses Chaos Physics instead of NVIDIA PhysX. The only gripe I would have, if any would be Rob naming the header files wrong, the case sensitivity i mean, I am following though on Linux and I had to write a separate python script to fix that :( ... but that's just me swimming against the current, can't blame him. I'll have to buy Rob a beer sometime. Hmm... beer is on me if I ever make a Game Rob. :P Thanks for sharing your knowledge, you could write a book, videos take a long time to watch...in my opinion(all the above is as well, just my opinions)

What Rob’s done here is truly commendable. I am going to try to keep this short. If you are not serious about putting in the time to understand and extrapolate from the provided code, then come back when you are ready, because while Rob explains what code does, he does not hold your hand and walk you through every single line of code. You need to take the time to scour the code on your own. You need to make f12 your best friend as you connect the dots. Access to this well documented and realized code is a luxury. You won’t find access to code this fleshed out and well documented anywhere else. This course covers how a racing game works, so if you were hoping for a breakdown of how to create quests/missions or how to create a dialogue system you’ll have to look elsewhere, but I would get this course just so you have access to a code base that dwarfs every other UE4 C++ course.

This is the only course on Udemy that I return back to time and time again, and also the only course I've found that approaches learning Unreal Engine programming from beginner to an intermediate/advanced level, written by an instructor with genuine, proven industry experience. Getting the chance to learn from an instructor that has released full, polished games is an incredibly rare situation, and something that shouldn't be overlooked. There are very few opportunities you will get in your career to learn from industry veterans, and this is one of them. I wholeheartedly disagree with the reviews that complain about this course for not offering a walkthrough, handhold approach. The wealth of knowledge that you can gain from this course far outweighs the benefits you may gain by coding along. The guided code-review approach to how this course is formatted teaches an incredibly important skill that will help you both with getting into the industry and making sure you're comfortable once you're in it. A skill that many other courses fail to teach: following along with intermediate explanation and understanding of an existing, large codebase. The majority of other courses focus heavily on creating your own game from scratch, and this is great for the first or second course you may watch, but your first job in the industry wont be writing a game from scratch, far from it. You'll be tasked with getting up to speed with the code that came before you, and part of that will be listening to senior developers share that knowledge with you, and exploring the code base for yourself to understand how it work. This course prepares you for that exact situation, and gives you the knowledge and experience you'll need to feel comfortable in the industry once you're in it, while also giving you the baseline knowledge required to begin making games for yourself.

This is a GREAT course and deserves the 5-star rating. The teacher is VERY professional and EXTREMELY helpful in explain things in detail and answer questions as you go through the course. But this is not a course for the faint of heart. If you do not have the dedication to do the work, then it is not for you. You will spend many hours listening to lectures. Then reviewing the code discussed and debugging said code. You will be watching lectures more than once. There is simple too much to understand and grasp in once pass. Know the tools of your trade (C++, VS, Unreal, Math, etc.). We need to see more courses like this on Udemy. This instructor knows his stuff if I may be so bold. The course does start off simply but advances very rapidly from there in lectures and skills. I would recommend this course to anyone wanting to produce games for a living. Your getting taught by someone who has been there. I will be following this instructor closely and be purchasing more of his courses if he is gracious enough to continue his wonderful teachings.

The course content is very good, but unfortunately I can't keep up, in class 70 in the UE4 modifications I tried to make the class in unreal 4.26.1 and in unreal 4.25.4 in both versions the code passed in class did not compile. I got to format the computer and install everything again and the problem persisted. As the teacher does not provide the complete project, I have no way to follow the course. Unfortunately for me it didn't work.

For me this was a perfect next step before starting for real to get something up and running for a portfolio piece after working through several other more traditional courses as I look to cross over into this area. It's a rare event to get access to this level of production code, let alone get walked through it. I found it easy to follow along with but saying that I've been around a bit, so it's the gaming side that's new, getting my head around C++ and brushing up on that not coding in general or working in professional IT environments which I've done for years and have scars to prove it. If you are new new you can absolutely do it but just take your time. I've got a whole stack of notes, comments and follow ups as a result of this probably another 4 weeks of testing and trying stuff out. I think one of the main takeaways was seeing stuff like Tick used in anger, seeing how to optimise referencing class and interfaces for real not just hypothetically saying casting bad don't put to much in Tick which what you see a lot of around when the truth is never that black and white. The maths primer is great as well, I'm slowly getting more patterns in my head for that, or at least know where to go look them up quicker. So if you are expecting a type along walk through it's not that, if you want to get a feel for the thinking and compromises you have to make in a production environment and a whole bunch of design patterns it's invaluable.