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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)

Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create empty projects and import files, which folder structure to use, and how to work with animations. In this chapter, we’ll explore some other key tools and functionality that you will work with when using Unreal Engine.

Game developers often need to use certain tools that save them time and energy when building game functionality. Unreal Engine’s powerful object inheritance capabilities give developers the edge they need to be more efficient. Developers can also work with both C++ and Blueprints interchangeably and use them to their benefit when developing games.

Another value-added benefit developers gain is the ability to extend code for use later in a project. Let’s say your client has new requirements that build upon the old ones (as is the case in most game studios). Now, to extend functionality, developers can just inherit a class and add more functionality...