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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By : Joanna Lee
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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By: Joanna Lee

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 is a powerful game development engine that provides rich functionalities to create 2D and 3D games across multiple platforms. Many people know what a game is and they play games every day, but how many of them know how to create a game? Unreal Engine technology powers hundreds of games, and thousands of individuals have built careers and companies around skills developed using this engine. Learning Unreal Engine 4 Game Development starts with small, simple game ideas and playable projects that you can actually finish. The book first teaches you the basics of using Unreal Engine to create a simple game level. Then, you'll learn how to add details such as actors, animation, effects, and so on to the game. The complexity will increase over the chapters and the examples chosen will help you learn a wide variety of game development techniques. This book aims to equip you with the confidence and skills to design and build your own games using Unreal Engine 4. By the end of this book, you'll have learnt about the entire Unreal suite and know how to successfully create fun, simple games.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Unreal Engine Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Applying finishing touches to a room


Our room is almost complete. You would have noticed that the door now is just a hole in the wall. To make it look like a door, we need to add a door frame and a door as follows:

  1. Go to Content Browser | Content | StarterContent | Props.

  2. Click and drop SM_DoorFrame into the viewport.

  3. Adjust it to fit in the wall.

When done, it should look like what is shown in the following screenshot.

I've used different views, such as top, side, and front, to adjust the frame nicely to fit the door. You can adjust Snap Sizes for some fine-tuning.

Useful tip – using the drag snap grid

To help you move objects into position more accurately, you can make use of the snap grid button at the top of the viewport as shown in the following screenshot. Turning the drag snap grid on allows you to translate objects according to the grid size you select. Click on the mesh-like symbol to toggle snap grid on/off. The numbers displayed on the right are the minimum grid sizes by which an object...