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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By : Joanna Lee
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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

By: Joanna Lee

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 is a powerful game development engine that provides rich functionalities to create 2D and 3D games across multiple platforms. Many people know what a game is and they play games every day, but how many of them know how to create a game? Unreal Engine technology powers hundreds of games, and thousands of individuals have built careers and companies around skills developed using this engine. Learning Unreal Engine 4 Game Development starts with small, simple game ideas and playable projects that you can actually finish. The book first teaches you the basics of using Unreal Engine to create a simple game level. Then, you'll learn how to add details such as actors, animation, effects, and so on to the game. The complexity will increase over the chapters and the examples chosen will help you learn a wide variety of game development techniques. This book aims to equip you with the confidence and skills to design and build your own games using Unreal Engine 4. By the end of this book, you'll have learnt about the entire Unreal suite and know how to successfully create fun, simple games.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Unreal Engine Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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We are now ready to use what we have learned to construct the next room for our game. We will duplicate the first room we have created in order to create our second room.

  1. Open the level that we created in Chapter 2, Creating Your First Level, (Chapter2_Level) and save it as a new level called Chapter3_Level.

  2. Select all the walls, the floor, the door, and the door frame.

  3. Hold down Alt + Shift and drag to duplicate the room.

  4. Place the duplicated room with the duplicated door aligned to the wall of the first room. Refer to the following screenshot to see how the walls are aligned from a Top view perspective:

  5. Delete the back wall of the first room to link both the rooms.

  6. Delete all the doors to allow easy access to the second room.

  7. Move the standing lamp and chair to the side. Take a look the following screenshot to understand how the rooms look at this point:

  8. Rebuild the lights. The following screenshot shows the room correctly illuminated after building...