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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By : John P. Doran

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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

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By: John P. Doran

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Overview of this book

Unreal Engine is powerful tool with rich functionalities to create games. It equips you with the skills to easily build mobile and desktop games from scratch without worrying about which platform they will run on. You can focus on the individual complexities of game development such as animation and rendering. This book takes you on a journey to jumpstart your game design efforts. You will learn various aspects of the Unreal engine commonly encountered with practical examples of how it can be used, with numerous references for further study. You will start by getting acquainted with Unreal Engine 4 and building out levels for your game. This will be followed by recipes to help you create environments, place meshes, and implement your characters. You will then learn to work with lights, camera, and shadows to include special effects in your game. Moving on, you’ll learn Blueprint scripting and C++ programming to enable you to achieve trigger effects and add simple functionalities. By the end of the book, you will see how to create a healthbar and main menu, and then get your game ready to be deployed and published.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface

Introduction

Installing UE4 and folder structure

UI overview

Navigating the viewport

The Content Browser overview

Importing your own content

2. Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing

Introduction

Building a room

Building out a level

Applying materials to geometry brushes

Converting brushes to static meshes or volumes

3. Creating Quality Interior Environments

Introduction

Placing static meshes

Placing a particle system

Using Groups

Meshing an example map

Adding life to static meshes

4. Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments

Introduction

Creating a landscape

Building an exterior level using the Sculpt mode

Creating rivers with the Flatten tool

Placing trees and rocks using the Foliage tool

Streaming levels

5. Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics

Introduction

An introduction to Matinee

Creating an opening cutscene

Playing a Matinee via Blueprints

Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode

6. Lighting and Shadows

Introduction

Lighting overview – learning the types of lights

Adding moveable lights – flashlight, part 1

Creating a Day/Night cycle

7. Art Pipeline – Working with Materials

Introduction

Creating a custom material

Creating a mirror material

Using Textures and normal maps with Materials

Creating glowing materials with static emissive lighting

Seeing through walls

8. Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects

Introduction

Building a flickering light

Converting from Level to Class Blueprints

Using Trigger Volumes – opening a door using Matinee

Adding to an existing Blueprint – flashlight, part 2

Creating a Health/Damage system, part 1 – taking damage

9. C++ Programming – Gameplay

Introduction

Setting up your development environment

Displaying text during runtime

Networking 101 – creating collectables with networking

Saving or loading games and keyboard input with C++

Creating custom blueprint nodes

10. User Interface

Introduction

Creating a Health/Damage system, part 2 – creating a healthbar

Dynamic enemy healthbars

Creating a main menu

Animating a menu

11. Publishing and Deployment

Introduction

Packaging your project

Creating an installer for Windows

Index

Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By : John P. Doran

Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Chapter 1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface

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