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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine - Second Edition

By : Marcos Romero, Brenden Sewell
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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

4.5 (10)
By: Marcos Romero, Brenden Sewell

Overview of this book

Blueprints is the visual scripting system in Unreal Engine that enables programmers to create baseline systems and can be extended by designers. This book helps you explore all the features of the Blueprint Editor and guides you through using Variables, Macros, and Functions. You’ll also learn about object-oriented programming (OOP) and discover the Gameplay Framework. In addition to this, you’ll learn how Blueprint Communication allows one Blueprint to access information from another Blueprint. Later chapters will focus on building a fully functional game using a step-by-step approach. You’ll start with a basic first-person shooter (FPS) template, and each chapter will build on the prototype to create an increasingly complex and robust game experience. You’ll then progress from creating basic shooting mechanics to more complex systems, such as user interface elements and intelligent enemy behavior. The skills you will develop using Blueprints can also be employed in other gaming genres. In the concluding chapters, the book demonstrates how to use arrays, maps, enums, and vector operations. Finally, you’ll learn how to build a basic VR game. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build a fully functional game and will have the skills required to develop an entertaining experience for your audience.
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Section 1: Blueprint Fundamentals
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Section 2: Developing a Game
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Section 3: Enhancing the Game
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Section 4: Advanced Blueprints

Defining the behavior of a Blueprint with events and actions

Most of the time, we will use Blueprints to create new Actors. In Unreal Engine, Actors are game objects that can be added to a level.

Unreal Engine informs the state of a game for an Actor using events. We define how an Actor responds to an event by using actions. Both events and actions are represented by nodes in the Event Graph panel.

Events

To add events to a Blueprint, use the Event Graph panel. Right-click the Event Graph panel to open Context Menu, which has a list of available events and actions. If you need more space in the Event Graph panel, you can right-click and drag to move it to an empty area of Event Graph. Context Menu has a Search bar that can be used to filter the list of nodes. There is also the Context Sensitive checkbox that filters the possible actions based on the node selected. The following screenshot shows Context Menu and some of the events available:

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