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Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 - Second Edition

By : Gonçalo Marques , Devin Sherry, David Pereira , Hammad Fozi
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Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

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By: Gonçalo Marques , Devin Sherry, David Pereira , Hammad Fozi

Overview of this book

Immerse yourself in the Unreal game projects with this book, written by four highly experienced industry professionals with many years of combined experience with Unreal Engine. Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 will walk you through the latest version of Unreal Engine by helping you get hands-on with the game creation projects. The book starts with an introduction to the Unreal Editor and key concepts such as actors, blueprints, animations, inheritance, and player input. You'll then move on to the first of three projects, building a dodgeball game, where you'll learn the concepts of line traces, collisions, projectiles, user interface, and sound effects. You’ll also discover how to combine these concepts to showcase your new skills. The second project, a side-scroller game, will help you implement concepts such as animation blending, enemy AI, spawning objects, and collectibles. And finally, you'll cover the key concepts in creating a multiplayer environment as you work on the third project, an FPS game. By the end of this Unreal Engine book, you'll have a broad understanding of how to use the tools that the game engine provides to start building your own games.
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Introduction to Unreal Engine

Welcome to Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine Second Edition. If this is the first time you’re using Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), this book will support you in getting started with one of the most in-demand game engines on the market. You will discover how to build up your game development skills and how to express yourself by creating video games. If you’ve already tried using UE5, this book will help you develop your knowledge and skills further so that you can build games more easily and effectively.

A game engine is a software application that allows you to produce video games from the ground up. Their feature sets vary significantly but usually allow you to import multimedia files, such as 3D models, images, audio, and video, and manipulate those files through the use of programming, where you can use programming languages such as C++, Python, and Lua, among others.

UE5 uses two main programming languages, C++ and Blueprint...

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