Vehicle Blueprint – a content overview
A vehicle in Unreal Engine 4 contains a number of different types of assets:
A Skeletal Mesh
A Physics Asset
An Animation Blueprint
A Vehicle Blueprint
One or more Wheel Blueprints
A Tire Type Data Asset
Let's start by creating the necessary game project so that we have access to a Vehicle Skeletal Mesh by default, and we don't have to create our own in a third-party 3D modeling program. To do so, let's open the Epic Games Unreal launcher and navigate to the Learn tab. Here, scroll down to the Example Game Projects section and find the Vehicle Game project template. Select this project and then the Download option:
Once successfully downloaded, we can create the project by navigating to the Library tab of the Unreal Engine launcher, scroll to the very bottom of the page to the Vault section, and select the Create Project option for Vehicle Game:
When we select the Create Project option, it will ask us for a name of the project. Let's call this project...