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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

Summary


We have covered a number of very important concepts about the objects that we use to populate our game world in Unreal Engine 4. We have broken one of the most common types of game object, Static Mesh, into its most fundamental components in order to understand its construction. We have also compared two types of game objects (Static Meshes and BSP), how they are different, and why they have their spot in the game. This will help you decide what kind of objects need to be created and how they will be created for your game level.

The chapter also briefly introduced textures and materials, how they are created, and applied onto the meshes. We will go into more details about Materials in the next chapter. So you might want to read Chapter 4, Material and Light, first before creating/applying materials to your newly created game objects. To help you optimize your game, this chapter also covered the mesh creation pipeline and the concept of LOD. For interactions to take place, we also...