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Mastering Game Development with Unreal Engine 4 - Second Edition

By : Matt Edmonds
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Mastering Game Development with Unreal Engine 4 - Second Edition

By: Matt Edmonds

Overview of this book

<p>To make a basic combat game from scratch, you will quickly override existing UE4 classes, and add and implement simple C++ functions while running and building them. These are all discussed as a short summary for new developers and as a quick refresher for experienced developers. Next, you will build a combat player character with expanded controls, create logic for a character, swap weapons, attack and move, bridge over scene changes and transitions, retain data between scenes, and manage the scene-change process. </p><p>You will then build an intelligent enemy AI and add physics based particles for weapon impacts. You will also get acquainted with cutting-edge features such as Volumetric Lightmaps for precomputed lighting, and Atmospheric and Volumetric Fog, to build advanced visuals in our ongoing GitHub project. </p><p>Moving on, you will explore the tools required to build an in-game cut-scene for a more professional gameplay experience and story direction. </p><p>Along the way, you will implement a solid game UI, including writing a full in-game load and save system that will enable players to resume their game from any point. You will also prepare, build, and work on VR and AR taking them from editor to real-world, building two new projects one in each of these brand new areas of UE4 and integrate classes from the main project into AR! </p><p>By the end of the book, you will have mastered all major UE features and will be able to bring self-imagined games to life through Unreal Engine 4.18+.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Putting our inventory to use

Don't worry, all the hard parts are done! But we do still have one last important, if less challenging, thing to do to make this more like a viable normal inventory in a game: swapping weapons. We'll need an input for cycling them, and keep in mind that we currently auto-equip the best weapon you pick up at the time of pick-up, and at the moment have no way to choose anything else.

Adding controls to cycle weapons

Much like before, when we added an input for stealth and bound it to left-shift, let's head back to the editor's project properties and engine/input/bindings fly-outs. Here, we'll add two Action Mappings with the + button, and name them InventoryUp and InventoryDown...