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Unreal Engine Virtual Reality Quick Start Guide

By : Jessica Plowman
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Unreal Engine Virtual Reality Quick Start Guide

By: Jessica Plowman

Overview of this book

With the ability to put players directly in the game, virtual reality gives users the chance to experience digital worlds directly. Nevertheless, many designers are unsure where to start when working with this amazing technology. With this book, you will learn user experience design processes and create immersive gameplay experiences designed for entertainment and player comfort. Using the power of Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprint visual scripting language, you will build player interaction and locomotion systems from scratch and use these flexible systems to create a sample game, as well as develop functional 2D and 3D user interfaces for players to interact with. And also learn the best practices for creating game art for virtual reality. Finally, you will learn how to test your application with your target audience and finalize your game for distribution. By the end of this book, you will have the knowledge to be able to make the leap from traditional game development to creating immersive virtual reality experiences using Unreal Engine 4.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Setting up new game files in UE4

UE4 is a versatile collection of tools that helps you to create the game of your dreams. To get you started down that path, Epic Games provides a collection of starter projects to jump-start your games by setting up some of the most important features for you. This often includes player character, sample weapons, and other necessary files. In this book, we'll begin creating files within the Virtual Reality Starter project so that we can make use of some of the basic art assets that this project provides. Beyond that, I'll show you how to create the blueprints we'll need from scratch.

Every game or software project needs to stay organized and we use naming conventions to do just that. A naming convention is a naming scheme and folder structure that ensures that every filename is standardized so that anyone in a particular game team...