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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By : John P. Doran
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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By: John P. Doran

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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
John P. Doran
Oct, 2015 | 326 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Publishing and Deployment
Introduction
Packaging your project
Creating an installer for Windows
Index
Index

Animating a menu

You may have created a menu or UI element at some point, but rather than having it static and non-moving, let's spend some time looking at how we can animate the menus by having them fly in and out or animate in some way. This will help add polish to the title as well as enable players to notice things easier as they move in.

Getting ready

Before we start working on this, we need to have a project created and set up. Follow the previous recipe all the way to completion.

How to do it…

  1. Open up the MainMenu blueprint once more and from the bottom-left in the Animations tab, click on the +Animation button and give the new animation a name (MenuFlyIn).

  2. Select the newly-created animation, and you should see the window on the right-hand side brighten up.

    Creating a new animation

  3. Next, click on the Auto Key toggle to have the animation editor automatically set keys that are appropriate for our implementation.

  4. If it's not there already, move the timeline bar (the white line with two orange...

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