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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

About the Author

John P. Doran is a technical game designer who has been creating games for over 10 years. He has worked on an assortment of games in teams comprising of just himself to over 70 students, mod, and professional projects.

He previously worked at LucasArts on Star Wars 1313 as a game design intern. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, with a BSc in game design.

He is currently working as a designer in DigiPen's research and development branch in Singapore. He is also the lead instructor of DigiPen-Ubisoft Campus Game Programming Program, instructing graduate level students in an intensive, advanced- level game programming curriculum. In addition to that, he also teaches and assists students on various subjects and gives lectures on C#, C++, Unreal, Unity, game design, and more.

He is also the author of Building an FPS Game with Unity, Unity Game Development Blueprints, Getting Started with UDK, UDK Game Development, and Mastering UDK Game Development, and has co-authored UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, all by Packt Publishing. You can find more about him on his website, http://johnpdoran.com.

A big thank you goes to my brother Chris and my wife Hien for being supportive and patient with me as I spent my free time and weekends away from them to finish the book.

On that same note, I also want to thank Samir Abou Samra and Elie Hosry for their support and encouragement while working on this book, as well as the rest of the DigiPen Singapore staff.

Thanks so much to Owen Roberts who approached me to write again, Rohit Kumar Singh for keeping me on track, as well as everyone else at Packt, who were helpful, as always!

Last, but not least, I'd like to thank my family as well as my parents Joseph and Sandra Doran, who took me seriously when I told them that I wanted to make games for a living.

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