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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

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By: Muhammad A.Moniem
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What will be covered?
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Who this book is for
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What you need for this book
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Conventions
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
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Getting ready and setting up
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Getting and building the engine
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Preparing the other required tools
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Preparing a game profile on the App Store
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Adding devices
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Generating provisioning profiles
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
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Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine
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The need for blueprints
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What is a node?
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The iOS/Mobile-only nodes
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Blueprints – tips and tricks
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The iOS project pipeline
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Building the game's provisioning profiles
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Building a project
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3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
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3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
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The project structure
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Building the blueprints
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Building the game mode
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Building the game's main material
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4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
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4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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An overview of blueprints
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The gameplay mechanic
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Building the particles
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Building the blueprints
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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Building the animated sprites
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An overview of blueprints
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The gameplay mechanics
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Building the blueprints
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Building the logic
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Pushing the boundaries
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
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The project structure
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Importing the assets
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Building the animated sprites
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The blueprints
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The gameplay mechanic
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Building the blueprints
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Building the logic
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Using 2D colliders
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Pushing the boundaries
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7. Monetizing Your Game
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7. Monetizing Your Game
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iAd support
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iTunes Connect
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Adding in-app purchases
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Adding leaderboards
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Adding achievements
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
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Blueprints Live view
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Printing messages
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Breakpoints
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XCode tools
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Debug Navigator
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Capturing frames
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Instruments
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Performance optimization
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Minimizing the game size
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9. Publishing
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9. Publishing
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Packaging the project
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Editing the game profile
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Uploading and submiting for review
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A. Nodes Database
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A. Nodes Database
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Index
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Index

Performance optimization

iOS devices and mobiles in general can run games with a high frame rate, but there are some disadvantages that you need to take care of to make sure that the game will be running at its best frame rate. Here are some points that you need to check while working with Unreal games for iOS:

  • Try not to use real-time lights and try to use baked lightmaps

  • Make sure that you build all of the lighting before building to the device

  • Pooling the actors is better than destroying and spawning them

  • Don't use post process effects on the camera

  • Make sure to have less than 700 draw calls in the camera view

  • Use as few materials as possible to get fewer draw calls

  • Use as few textures as possible; using atlases is a great way to optimize the textures' amount and size

  • Square texture (power of two) is the best texture for iOS devices

  • The tries count should not be more than 500,000 in the camera view

  • Use PrecomputedVisibilityVolumes if your game has lots of 3D meshes

  • Try not to use HDR or LDR if possible...

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