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Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

By : Satheesh PV, Satheesh P.V
Book Image

Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

By: Satheesh PV, Satheesh P.V

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools that gives you power to develop your game and seamlessly deploy it to iOS and Android devices. It can be used for the development of simple 2D games or even stunning high-end visuals. Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability and is a tool used by many game developers today. This book will introduce you to the most popular game development tool called Unreal Engine 4 with hands-on instructions for building stunning video games. You will begin by creating a new project or prototype by learning the essentials of Unreal Engine by getting familiar with the UI and Content Browser. Next, we'll import a sample asset from Autodesk 3ds max and learn more about Material Editor. After that we will learn more about Post Process. From there we will continue to learn more about Blueprints, Lights, UMG, C++ and more.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a new Matinee


To open the Matinee UI, we first need to create the Matinee asset. You can create a Matinee asset by clicking on the Matinee button and selecting Add Matinee in the level editor toolbar. When you click on it, you might get a warning saying that Undo/Redo data will be reset. This is because, while you are in the Matinee mode, some changes are translated into keyframes and editor needs to clear the undo stack. Click on Continue and a new Matinee Actor will be placed in the level and the Matinee editor will open. Let's take a closer look at the Matinee window:

Creating new Matinee Actor

This is the Matinee Actor icon:

Matinee Actor placed in world

After creating a new Matinee Actor, it will automatically open the Matinee Window. If it doesn't, then select the Matinee Actor in world and click on Open Matinee in the Details panel.

Matinee window

Let's take a quick look at the Matinee window:

The Matinee window consists of:

  • Toolbar: This contains all the common buttons for Matinee...