Complete Introduction to Unreal 4

It's OK, but annoyingly vague about some of the key concepts. Too much of it was the instructor clicking through menus and literally reading out what each option is (which labels/tooltips show anyway) without saying what it DOES

the instruction is good, its just the lessons are old. many menus and layouts have shifted around in 5 years. So i'm stopping every 5 min or so to figure out where things are located

Good overview of the Unreal Engine, I bought it with the landscape module in mind. I learnt some basic for it which I didn't have before. As stated I picked it up for the landscape module I wish the instructor had explained the layers and some of brush settings a bit more in depth other than that Clear and concise delivery.

Expected more information and examples for the bits talked about. Would have liked to seen how to fix the packaging to make the window scalable and option to exit.

So far a nice guided introduction, great for someone new to UE4, clearly explained and very informative!

This is literally just a guy clicking on all the buttons in UE4 and then saying "as you can see, this does this" and then clicking in the viewport. It's got no practical application, no insight, and no real knowledge behind it. It's a WASTE OF MONEY!

I wanted more of a project based learning course. This just shows separate functions of Unreal which is okay.

I have a hard time recommending this class, except to a very small targeted audience (specifically, expert but illiterate users of the older UDK looking to get an overview of UE4). For positives, I will say that it is clear the instructor (Kyle) has substantial practical experience with both UDK and UnrealEngine. However, he is not a teacher. This class was a ride-along as he talks to himself, figuring out examples he comes up with on the fly. Specifically, I would like to point out that very little is explained; most capabilities are explored with a curt "oh and you can do XYZ" without any explanation of what XYZ is or why you would do it. The vast majority of the course is him clicking top-level menus and then reading off all the sub-menus as if we can't read for ourselves. Worse, some of the parts that *are* explained aren't necessary. For example, UE's "Kill Z" capability could be easily covered by the following: "Kill-Z is a Z coordinate at which the player will automatically die; you'd use this if, say, the player fell into an infinite abyss, so that they'd die instead of falling forever." Instead, Kyle launches into a 2-minute demonstration of what happens when you set it to 0, and then to -10, and then to -100, each time relaunching the player so that you have concrete proof that it actually works. I also got a bit irritated by the sloppy speaking skills. The words "smaller", "nicer", and "sharper" are already comparitive; it is both unnecessary and incorrect to say "more smaller", "more nicer", and "more sharper". There is also no need to abuse the word "actually". All in all, the course wasn't completely hopeless, but it's got quite a ways to go before it reaches the level of a useful professional-grade training video. In its current incarnation, it was worth the $4 I got it for on sale, but not more than that.

The instructor goes through each menu and button, reading their names, or giving random comments guessing their meaning (often wrongly), pulling sliders randomly setting shadows to red, lights to green, gravity to point upwards etc, and recommends to mess around with the settings until you are happy with the result. After watching this, you will have learned absolutely nothing!

The content was not terrible. My primary frustration is that the first 26% of the course is the instructor literally reading the menus without describing what the items in each list is for: I could do this myself. I think that first 26% needs to get removed and some useful content added back. Instructor covers a wide breadth of information but doesn't go into depth on anything, so if you were hoping for anything other than barely scratching the surface on everything from material creation to adding light sources to a level, this isnt for you.