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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 - Second Edition

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Exploring editor windows

As we’ve seen, the Unreal Engine editor is comprised of many windows, all of which are resizable, movable, and have a corresponding tab on top of them. You can click and hold a window’s tab and drag it to move it somewhere else. You can hide tab labels by right-clicking them and selecting the Hide Tabs option:

Figure 1.5 – How to hide a tab

Figure 1.5 – How to hide a tab

If the tab labels have been hidden, you can get them to reappear by clicking the blue triangle in the top-left corner of that window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 1.6 – The blue triangle that allows you to show a window’s tab

Figure 1.6 – The blue triangle that allows you to show a window’s tab

You can also dock the windows to the sidebar to hide them while also having them easily available:

Figure 1.7 – Docking a window to the sidebar

After that, to show or hide them, you simply have to click them:

Figure 1.8 – Showing...