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Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting

By : ZHENYU GEORGE LI
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Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting

By: ZHENYU GEORGE LI

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine is one of the most popular and accessible game engines in the industry, creating multiple job opportunities. Owing to C++ scripting's high performance, advanced algorithms, and engineering maintenance, it has become the industry standard for developing commercial games. However, C++ scripting can be overwhelming for anyone without a programming background. Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting will help you master C++ and get a head start on your game development journey. You’ll start by creating an Unreal Engine C++ project from the shooter template and then move on to building the C++ project and the C++ code inside the Visual Studio editor. You’ll be introduced to the fundamental C++ syntax and essential object-oriented programming concepts. For a holistic understanding of game development, you’ll also uncover various aspects of the game, including character creation, player input and character control, gameplay, collision detection, UI, networking, and packaging a completed multiplayer game. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to create professional, high-quality games using Unreal Engine 5 with C++, and will have built a solid foundation for more advanced C++ programming and game development technologies.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started with Unreal C++ Scripting
6
Part 2 – C++ Scripting for Unreal Engine
12
Part 3: Making a Complete Multiplayer Game

Summary

This chapter demonstrated how to make a single-player game a multiplayer game in Unreal. The content we introduced in this chapter focuses on learning essential concepts and methods to follow to solve common multiplayer game issues. The knowledge you gained from this chapter can be a starting point that will help you continue learning about advanced multiplayer game development in the future.

In the first section, we introduced the concepts of single-player, local multiple, and network multiplayer games so that you got a basic sense of what is required for multiplayer gameplay.

Then, you learned how to launch the Pangaea game with two players (one listen server and one client) in the editor. Based on that, we explained multiplayer game net modes as well as identified some issues associated with multiplayer gameplay.

To solve issues in the multiplayer version game, you learned to use RPCs to notify the server and the other clients of attack actions, replicate actor...