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‫Hello and welcome.

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‫In this lecture, we are going to be setting up our project and bringing in the assets we need for this

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‫section.

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‫You can see we've got this lovely dungeon asset packed with lots of props and it's fully modular, which

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‫means that we can very easily use it to create our own levels.

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‫Let's dive in and get this project set up.

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‫So for this section, I'm going to be using the fantastic assets from infused studio called the Medieval

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‫Dungeon Pack.

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‫They are freely available on the Epic Games store.

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‫So I do recommend you go ahead and get these.

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‫So you're going to sign in to download, you're going to download them, possibly check out if you need

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‫to, and then they're going to magically appear in your library tab down at the bottom, under the vault.

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‫So you can see my medieval dungeon down here.

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‫And it is 2.2 gig to download, but to download it you will need to add it to a project.

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‫So that's the first step.

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‫Launch up your editor.

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‫Let's get to the new project Pane and we're going to create one based on the game's templates.

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‫And in this case, we're going to use the first person template, not because I want a first person

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‫shooter, but because I want a character that has a first person viewport for our game.

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‫So what we're going to do is I'm going to exclude starter content because I don't want that.

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‫We're going to start straight away with a C++ project in this case and the other options, desktop maximum

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‫and without Raytracing.

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‫In my particular case, I'm going to browse to a project location where I've already created a container

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‫folder.

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‫Now this is going to create a folder within a folder.

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‫It's a pet peeve of mine, but I can't figure out a better way to make this work with version control

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‫which I use here and I recommend you use.

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‫If you know what it is, then we're going to create the project name is going to be Crypt Raider as

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‫well, so it's going under the Crypt Raider folder.

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‫We're going to create a new folder called Crypt Raider.

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‫Let's go ahead and click Create.

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‫So because we were creating a C++ project that may take a little bit of time for you, and sometimes

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‫it doesn't give you much indication that stuff is going on.

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‫But once that's done, we will get the Visual Studio Code Project launched up.

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‫And yes, I'm going to hit Trust the authors in this case.

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‫Then we've also got our Unreal Editor project launched up and I've got an output log visible here.

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‫I'm just going to close that down to give us a bit more space and let's have a little play around with

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‫what's here.

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‫I'm going to close the place, actors as well and hit play so you can see I've got some first person

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‫hands.

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‫I can move around with my mouse and I can strafe and move like I would in any first person shooter.

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‫I can grab the gun and I can shoot at the environment around me, which is quite a cool little environment

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‫and a nice little template project, especially if you want to create a first person shooter.

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‫You can see a lot of the stuff that's going on here, but we're going to not use a lot of this stuff.

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‫What we're going to do is add in the asset pack.

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‫So let's go over to the Epic Games launcher, go to the library tab, find your asset pack.

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‫In my case, it's medieval dungeon.

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‫But if you wanted to use a different modular asset pack, I can recommend the modular sci fi season

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‫one and modular sci fi season two packs as great ways of building out modular levels in a very similar

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‫way if you wanted a different theme.

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‫But that said, I do recommend, unless you're experience with this, you follow along with the same

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‫assets as me.

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‫So let's click Add to Project.

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‫Now we're going to have to click show all projects because the exact version doesn't match because of

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‫Unreal five.

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‫So we're going to select the Crypt Raider project and you can see it's saying it doesn't have a compatible

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‫virtual version.

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‫So we're going to choose the latest version that's compatible, which in this case is 4.26.

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‫And we're going to click Add to Project.

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‫Now, when you do this for the first time, it's going to have to download the assets, which are 2.2

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‫gigabytes.

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‫So do go ahead and set that off now and you can watch through the rest of the video while that's working.

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‫So while that's downloading, let's go over to our content browser and create ourselves a new level.

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‫In fact, we can do this from the file menu, go new level, and I'm going to create a completely empty

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‫level and we're going to start from there in building our dungeon map.

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‫So let's click create.

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‫Let's go to the file menu and click Save Current Level and we're going to save it in the root of content.

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‫I'm going to call this my dungeon and I'm going to hit save.

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‫Now we want to change the settings so that that is the default map.

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‫Let's go over to settings, project settings into maps and modes.

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‫And the default startup map should be the dungeon in both cases like so.

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‫And now if we go over to our content draw for me, the medieval dungeon packs are already in here.

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‫So what we can do is go and have a little bit of a look.

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‫So I'm going to dive in to the maps and open up the demonstration level and close down my content draw

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‫and see what we have.

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‫Okay, pretty cool looking stuff.

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‫If we hit play, we can actually play around with this inside our first person.

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‫Unfortunately, we fall right through the floor and that's due to there being some collision mesh issues

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‫which we'll have to sort out no matter.

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‫We can go around the level in our preview mode and see that it does look pretty nice.

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‫There's some very ambient lighting.

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‫There's lots of different components that we can play with.

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‫This level has been constructed very nicely indeed.

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‫We've got cages, we've got lots of props and we've got a whole kind of different set of assets down

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‫here in the crypt, slightly lower ceilings and different structure of floor, etc., making everything

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‫a little bit more cramped feeling in the crypt.

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‫And at the end of the crypt here we've got the kind of piece de resistance, which is the crypt mausoleum.

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‫And we're going to be I'm going to be making use of this later on, and we can have a look and get some

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‫inspiration while it's downloading.

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‫Have a have a think of what while I'm showing you this, what elements you like, what you might want

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‫to use in your game, because that's what we're going to be doing very soon, is designing the level

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‫here.

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‫Okay, so that's it for project setup.

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‫Let your project finish adding its assets and I'll see you in the next video.