Book Image

Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting

By : ZHENYU GEORGE LI
Book Image

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

Editing C++ Code in Visual Studio

Are you new to coding in general? Then you need to use an editing tool!

C++ source code is just regular text files named with some special extension names, such as .cpp, .h, and so on. You can basically use Windows Notepad to open and edit C++ source code files. However, since Notepad is a basic editing tool that lacks functionalities, we recommend using Visual Studio (VS) as the code editor.

Why use VS? VS is a feature-rich integrated development environment (IDE) that supports many aspects of software development. It empowers you to complete the entire development cycle in one place. You can use VS to create, edit, debug, test, and build your code. VS also has the most popular programming language compilers integrated with the installation package so that C++ source code can be directly compiled to be executable machinery code. Moreover, VS especially supports Unreal Engine and works well with the engine’s development environment.

...