Unreal Engine 4 for Video Games
Course 2: The Character: Actors
By Jose Goncalves , Programador de videojuegos
About the video: Actors
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain the concept of Actor, one of the fundamental elements of Unreal. An actor is an entity with position, location, orientation, and other properties, and almost everything within an Unreal scene is one of them. Knowing what they are and how they work, we will do several examples and see their properties to understand them better.”
In this video lesson Jose Goncalves addresses the topic: Actors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: The Character. Learn how to give life to a playable character.
Partial transcription of the video
“UNREAL ENGINE 4 COURSE 2 LESSON 1 Actors We will start with this first lesson, where we will understand the concept of Actors in Unreal. An extremely fundamental concept. Let's get started. All you see here is an Actor. An Actor is everything they can place within a level. An Actor has some properties in his transformation scale, orientation and location. In the Modes panel we can take an empty Actor, which is the most basic example of an Actor, We move it here on stage and, as we can see, it has a transform, it has a location, it has a rotation, it has a scale. Although it appears here as ...”
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Course summary for: Course 2: The Character

Jose Goncalves
By Jose Goncalves
José Joel Goncalves is Technical Director at TeraVision Games, where he leads the video game development and engineering department. With over 12 years of experience in the industry, he has worked on the creation of games for mobile platforms, PC and consoles.
He has collaborated with renowned companies such as Namco, Disney, inXile and Gun Media, contributing to highly relevant projects in the field of video games.
His career stands out for his ability to integrate rigorous engineering with the creativity necessary to bring interactive universes to life.
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