‫Hello and welcome.
‫In this lecture, we are going to be getting to this screen here with unreal five installed and ready
‫to go.
‫Let's dive in and get started.
‫So let's start off with an overview of the installation process we're about to go through in this video.
‫The first step is to check the requirements of our machine to see that we have got a machine that can
‫run unreal, and if not, what components we might need to look at upgrading in order to meet those
‫minimum requirements.
‫Then we're going to go and install the Epic Games launcher.
‫If you don't have this already for playing Fortnite or whatever other games you might install through
‫the Epic Games launcher, then we're going to look at logging in and creating an Epic Games account
‫again, if you don't have one already, and then finding the Unreal Engine Library tab to add an engine
‫version and install it, you may feel confident going through this entire process yourself, in which
‫case I would challenge you to go ahead and do just that.
‫But I'm going to run through it with you now.
‫At the time of recording, the documentation has not yet been updated for Unreal five, but the link
‫in your resources will be kept up to date.
‫So when that is released, you will get the latest and greatest.
‫So here are the recommendations.
‫You can see that there is a separate tab for Windows, Mac and Linux.
‫So do choose your appropriate operating system.
‫But at the top level, they're saying a minimum requirement is that you have Windows ten on a 64 bit
‫processor.
‫So that processor should be a quad core, either Intel or AMD and 2.5 gigahertz or faster.
‫So that's not too hard requirement to match these days.
‫But do make sure you do a memory of a minimum of eight gigabytes of RAM.
‫I do recommend you have more if you can and a graphics card that supports DirectX 11 or DirectX 12.
‫Now I'm running a 980, so you don't need the most up to date cards.
‫But even on my graphics card, things can get a bit slow from time to time and I will show you how we
‫can get around those things.
‫Then we're going to look at macOS requirements here.
‫It's requiring that you have macOS, Big Sur or later.
‫I do recommend you probably have the latest version of macOS, whatever that is for you.
‫Again, the requirements are basically the same.
‫They recommend an Intel Mac.
‫You can just about make things work on the new Apple silicon chips, but it can be a little bit harder.
‫So I do recommend you follow along with an Intel Mac if you have one available again eight gigabytes
‫of RAM and you do need to have a video card that supports metal 1.2 or later for folks on Linux.
‫I'm going to let you read your own specifications now for the next step in the process, we're going
‫to need to go ahead and download the Epic Games launcher.
‫The way we do this is we go to Unreal Engine XCOM.
‫If you don't already have it installed, hit the download button.
‫Now we're going to.
‫It doesn't matter which license you select here, actually, it's going to download the same thing.
‫But for our sake, I'm just going to go with the publishing license as that is kind of the safest if
‫you're actually going to make games and publish them, click download.
‫Now you get the Epic Installer, MSI downloading or on a mac.
‫You will probably get something that you can drag into your applications folder instead.
‫And while that's downloading for me, why don't you go ahead and set it off downloading for you too,
‫a few minutes later.
‫So once the MSI is downloaded, let's go ahead and run through the installer on a mac.
‫You're going to unzip, open up, put it into your applications folder and you'll just be able to launch
‫it.
‫So we're going to hit the install button.
‫So hit yes.
‫To allow access and generally run through a fairly standard installer process.
‫Once that's done, you will see the Epic Games launcher load up and start to verify updates or whatever
‫it's doing, downloading anything that it needs to just update itself.
‫I will never understand why software needs updating the very second you've just installed it, but there
‫you go a few more minutes later and once that's done, it may ask you for some more permissions so that
‫you can install prerequisites for the Epic Games launcher.
‫And then finally, when it launches up, it's time to sign in.
‫With your Epic Games account, you've got the option of a bunch of different social logins, but if
‫you've got an epic games username and password already, then you can go ahead and enter those in.
‫Once you've done that hit log in.
‫Now, once the store loads up, what you're going to want to do is come up instead of being in the store
‫or the library.
‫When I go down to the Unreal Engine section on the left hand pane, and then once we're in the Unreal
‫Engine section, we need to go to the library tab and click on the plus button to install a new version
‫of the Unreal Engine.
‫Or you could click Install Engine at the top right up here.
‫So click the plus button and then what we want to do is click the dropdown.
‫Here's the version for.
‫Point two, 7.2.
‫That's the latest stable version at the time of recording.
‫But if I click the dropdown, then you can see there is 5.0.0 preview to please select whichever is
‫the latest version of Unreal five for you.
‫So that's going to be preview two for me and then hit the install button.
‫Now for me, it's come up with a warning saying that this is pre-release and it's for testing only.
‫I'm going to go ahead and click install if you want to.
‫You can choose a different installation location for this, which you can do by browsing to it.
‫And I've just done so we can go ahead and hit install and it's going to download and download prerequisites
‫we need and finish off the installation process 2 hours later.
‫Okay.
‫So I fast forwarded through the download installation and verification process that will happen next.
‫I suggest you get your started while you watch the rest of the video because it does take a rather long
‫time.
‫Now, once you have done that, it's going to ask you for permission again to change some stuff on your
‫system.
‫Do a go ahead and say yes.
‫And then once you're there, you will have unreal engine installed and you will be able to either hit
‫the launch button against a specific version or the default launch button up here in the top.
‫Right.
‫You can set a default engine version by clicking on the dropdown next to launch and clicking set current.
‫So then we hit the launch button and Unreal is going to load up and the first time you launch it up
‫on Windows, it's going to ask you to install some prerequisites so you get more installation to do.
‫This is a long process, but it is certainly worth it now by default in Unreal five, it can load up
‫with your latest project.
‫And here for me, the latest project I had open was this crypt radar for later on in the course.
‫And so what you need to do in this case is go to the file menu and hit the new project button.
‫And this is going to bring up the new project window.
‫And this is the starting point for the next video.
‫So I'll see you there.