Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By : Steve Santello
Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By: Steve Santello

Overview of this book

Now that Unreal Engine 4 has become one of the most cutting edge game engines in the world, developers are looking for the best ways of creating games of any genre in the engine. This book will lay out the foundation of creating a turn-based RPG in Unreal Engine 4.12. The book starts by walking you through creating a turn-based battle system that can hold commands for party members and enemies. You’ll get your hands dirty by creating NPCs such as shop owners, and important mechanics, that make up every RPG such as a currency system, inventory, dialogue, and character statistics. Although this book specifically focuses on the creation of a turn-based RPG, there are a variety of topics that can be utilized when creating many other types of genres. By the end of the book, you will be able to build upon core RPG framework elements to create your own game experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Downloading Visual Studio


We will need to start programming soon, so if you haven't already, now is the time to download Visual Studio, which is the integrated development environment that we will need to program the framework for our engine and game logic in C++. Luckily, Microsoft provides Visual Studio Community for free.

To download Visual Studio Community, go to https://www.visualstudio.com/ and download Community 2015. This will download the installer for Visual Studio. After it downloads, simply run the installer. Note that Visual Studio Community 2015 does not install C++ by default, so be sure that under Features, you are installing Visual C++, Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015, and Microsoft Foundation Classes for C++. If you do not have C++ installed, you will not be able to write or compile code written for UE4 in Visual Studio since UE4 is built on C++.