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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)

AI Controller

Let’s discuss what the main difference is between a Player Controller and an AI Controller. Both of these actors derive from the base Controller class. A Controller is used to take control of a Pawn or Character to control the actions of said pawn or character.

While a Player Controller relies on the input of an actual player, an AI Controller applies AI to the characters they possess and responds to the environment based on the rules set forth by the AI. By doing so, the AI can make intelligent decisions in response to the player and other external factors, without the player explicitly telling it to do so. Multiple instances of the same AI pawn can share the same AI Controller, and the same AI Controller can be used across different AI pawn classes. AI, like all actors inside UE5, is spawned through the UWorld class.

Note

You will learn more about the UWorld class in Chapter 14, Spawning the Player Projectile, but as a reference, you can read more here...