DESCRIPTION
DATE: Tuesday, February 4, 2025
TIME: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: SPEEA TUKWILA HALL (15205 52nd Ave S., Tukwila, WA 98188) OR Virually on Zoom
Class size is limited to 15 people
VR headsets will only be provided for in-person participants.
This training WILL NOT be recorded.
- February 4th - Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine Class 1: Scripting Unreal & Creating Custom Plugins:
- In-person – Class changed to virtual only due to inclement weather
- Virtually - Zoom
OBJECTIVES
When working with large CAD datasets, scripting redundant processes is
essential to producing content in a timely manner. Additionally, being able to quickly reuse content from one project to another greatly reduces development time. In this class, students will learn how to greatly increase productivity by scripting repetitive or difficult tasks. Students will be introduced to Editor
Utility Widgets and Editor Utility Blueprints, and learn when to use each. We will then learn how to create custom plugins from our assets, so we can easily reuse those assets in other projects. By the end of the class, students will have written several useful scripts that the instructor regularly uses for development, e.g. automatically center all geometry. Students will create several custom plugins, and learn how to import those plugins to other UE projects.
This “Advanced” course will focus on making custom interactions in VR, so students will be able to interact with hand tools, buttons, and levers, in addition to creating interactive VR menus. The course will require a lot of coding, so students should have a solid understanding of coding principles before taking the “Advanced” course. If a student does not have much experience with coding, it is highly recommended they take a Python development course beforehand. The instructor recommends this course on Udemy.com:
Enrollment in this class does not enroll you in the other Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine classes. To enroll in the other classes, you must register at the links below:
course Instructors
Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill serves as head of AR/VR technologies for Product Development (PD) in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role, he leads the team responsible for virtual prototyping of various PD initiatives, ranging from individual technologies to entire airplane programs. O'Neill has led AR/VR development on a wide variety of programs, including the New Mid-market Airplane (NMA), ecoDemonstrator, T-7A Red Hawk, NASA X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, and Wisk Aero. O'Neill is a member of Boeing's Technical Fellowship as an Associate Technical Fellow in Immersive Technologies. O'Neill is also co-chair of the Boeing XR Community of Excellence steering team and he teaches a series of Ed Wells classes within Boeing on AR/VR development using Unreal Engine. Prior to joining Boeing in 2014, O'Neill was a simulation technician at an accident reconstruction firm where he created virtual simulations of engineering analyses for use in litigation.
