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Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

By : Satheesh P.V, PV
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Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

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Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools that gives you power to develop your game and seamlessly deploy it to iOS and Android devices. It can be used for the development of simple 2D games or even stunning high-end visuals. Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability and is a tool used by many game developers today. This book will introduce you to the most popular game development tool called Unreal Engine 4 with hands-on instructions for building stunning video games. You will begin by creating a new project or prototype by learning the essentials of Unreal Engine by getting familiar with the UI and Content Browser. Next, we'll import a sample asset from Autodesk 3ds max and learn more about Material Editor. After that we will learn more about Post Process. From there we will continue to learn more about Blueprints, Lights, UMG, C++ and more.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4
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1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4
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Unreal Engine 4 download
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Getting familiar with Unreal Engine
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BSP
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Default starting level, splash screen, and game icon
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Summary
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2. Importing Assets
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2. Importing Assets
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Creating asset in a DCC application
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Creating collision meshes
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Simple shapes
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Auto convex collision
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Materials
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LOD
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Exporting and importing
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3. Materials
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3. Materials
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Material user interface
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Common material expressions
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4. Post Process
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4. Post Process
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Adding Post Process
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5. Lights
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5. Lights
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Lighting basics
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Lightmass Global Illumination
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6. Blueprints
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6. Blueprints
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Different Blueprint types
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Getting familiar with the Blueprint user interface
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Blueprint graph types
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Blueprint node references
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Creating our first Blueprint class
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Destroying our Blueprint Actor after some seconds
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Spawning our Blueprint class in Level Blueprint
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7. Matinee
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7. Matinee
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Creating a new Matinee
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8. Unreal Motion Graphics
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8. Unreal Motion Graphics
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Setting up a project
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Assigning our HUD to Character
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Creating floating health bars
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9. Particles
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9. Particles
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Cascade particle editor
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Creating a simple particle system
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Playing particle in Blueprints
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10. Introduction to Unreal C++
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10. Introduction to Unreal C++
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Setting up Visual Studio 2015
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Creating a C++ project
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C++ to Blueprint
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11. Packaging Project
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11. Packaging Project
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Recap
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Packaging the project
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References
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Index
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Index

Creating asset in a DCC application

In the previous chapter, you learned how to use BSP to block out a level. However, we need to replace them with static meshes for better performance and more control of materials, collisions, and so on. We will create models in the Digital Content Creation (DCC) application (such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, Blender, and so on) that are imported into Unreal Engine through Content Browser. Unreal Engine supports the import of both FBX and OBJ but its recommended to use the FBX format.

The following screenshot is an example asset that I will use in this chapter:

Creating asset in a DCC application

Note

Note that at the time of writing this book, Unreal Engine import pipeline uses FBX 2014. Trying to import using a different version might result in incompatibilities.

A few things that you need to keep in mind when modeling are as follows:

  • Units: Unreal Units (UU) are critical when modeling assets for games. Incorrect units will result in assets looking larger or smaller than they are supposed...
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