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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 the Event Graph window

The Event Graph window is where you’ll be writing all of your Blueprint visual scripting code, creating your variables and functions, and accessing other variables and functions declared in this class’s parent class.

If you select the Event Graph tab, which you should be able to see to the right of the Viewport tab, you will be shown the Event Graph window instead of the Viewport window. On clicking the Event Graph tab, you will see the following window:

Figure 1.25 – The Event Graph window, showing three disabled events

You can navigate the Event Graph window by holding the right mouse button and dragging inside the graph, you can zoom in and out by scrolling the mouse wheel, and you can select nodes from the graph by either clicking the left mouse button or by clicking and holding to select an area of nodes.

You can also right-click inside the Event Graph window to access the Blueprint’s Actions...