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3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

By : Jessica Plowman
Book Image

3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

By: Jessica Plowman

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 now has support for Blender, which was not available in earlier versions. This has opened up new possibilities and that is where this book comes in. This is the first book in the market combining these two powerful game and graphic engines. Readers will build an amazing high-level game environment with UE4 and will show them how to use the power of Blender 3D to create stunning animations and 3D effects for their game. This book will start with creating levels, 3D assets for the game, game progression, light and environment control, animation, and so on. Then it will teach readers to add amazing visual effects to their game by applying rendering, lighting, rigging, and compositing techniques in Blender. Finally, readers will learn how to smoothly transfer blender files to UE4 and animate the game assets. Each chapter will add complexities to the game environment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using particle effects


The sounds of our explosion are all in place and the Artifact is ready for destruction! To finish our explosion, we are going to need some particle effects. We used various particle effects back in Chapter 5, Taking This Level Up a Notch, to enhance our scripted events at the security checkpoint and the elevator. Here we will use an explosion, fire, and smoke to enhance the destruction effect and mask when we delete the different components of the Artifact. Let's take a look:

Add an explosion particle, a fire particle, and a smoke particle to the Components list. Be sure to turn off Auto Activate!

To our already extensive list of components, we will add explosion, fire, and smoke particle emitters. Add each emitter, just like we added our sound, and then select each one and disable the Auto Activate option in the Details panel. We will use the Blueprint node Activate to turn those back on later.

Create two separate Class Blueprints for the top and bottom pieces of the...