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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)

Recasting the Nav Mesh

When you added NavMeshBoundsVolume, you may have noticed that another actor was created automatically: a RecastNavMesh actor called RecastNavMesh-Default. This RecastNavMesh acts as the “brain” of the Nav Mesh because it contains the parameters needed to adjust the Nav Mesh that directly influences how the AI navigates the given area.

The following screenshot shows this asset, as seen from the World Outliner tab:

Figure 13.4 – The RecastNavMesh actor, as seen from the World Outliner tab

Note

There are a lot of parameters that exist in RecastNavMesh, and we will only be covering the important parameters in this book. For more information, check out https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/API/Runtime/NavigationSystem/NavMesh/ARecastNavMesh/index.html.

There are only two primary sections that are important to you right now:

  • Display: The Display section, as its name suggests, only contains parameters that...