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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By : John P. Doran
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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

By: John P. Doran

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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
John P. Doran
Oct, 2015 | 326 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface
Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface
Introduction
Installing UE4 and folder structure
UI overview
Navigating the viewport
The Content Browser overview
Importing your own content
2
Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing
Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing
Introduction
Building a room
Building out a level
Applying materials to geometry brushes
Converting brushes to static meshes or volumes
3
Creating Quality Interior Environments
Creating Quality Interior Environments
Introduction
Placing static meshes
Placing a particle system
Using Groups
Meshing an example map
Adding life to static meshes
4
Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments
Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments
Introduction
Creating a landscape
Building an exterior level using the Sculpt mode
Creating rivers with the Flatten tool
Placing trees and rocks using the Foliage tool
Streaming levels
5
Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics
Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics
Introduction
An introduction to Matinee
Creating an opening cutscene
Playing a Matinee via Blueprints
Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode
6
Lighting and Shadows
Lighting and Shadows
Introduction
Lighting overview – learning the types of lights
Adding moveable lights – flashlight, part 1
Creating a Day/Night cycle
7
Art Pipeline – Working with Materials
Art Pipeline – Working with Materials
Introduction
Creating a custom material
Creating a mirror material
Using Textures and normal maps with Materials
Creating glowing materials with static emissive lighting
Seeing through walls
8
Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects
Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects
Introduction
Building a flickering light
Converting from Level to Class Blueprints
Using Trigger Volumes – opening a door using Matinee
Adding to an existing Blueprint – flashlight, part 2
Creating a Health/Damage system, part 1 – taking damage
9
C++ Programming – Gameplay
C++ Programming – Gameplay
Introduction
Setting up your development environment
Displaying text during runtime
Networking 101 – creating collectables with networking
Saving or loading games and keyboard input with C++
Creating custom blueprint nodes
10
User Interface
User Interface
Introduction
Creating a Health/Damage system, part 2 – creating a healthbar
Dynamic enemy healthbars
Creating a main menu
Animating a menu
11
Publishing and Deployment
Publishing and Deployment
Introduction
Packaging your project
Creating an installer for Windows
Index
Index

Importing your own content

Now that we have a good foundation on the Content Browser tab, let's start off by bringing in some of our own content into the game.

Getting ready

This recipe assumes that you have a project open with the sample assets included. If you do not have that yet, feel free to follow the instructions in the Getting ready section of the UI overview recipe.

In addition, this recipe uses assets from the example code provided for the book. If you do not have it, download it from the Packt Publishing site at http://www.packtpub.com

Tip

Downloading the example code

You can download the example code files for all Packt books you have purchased from your account at http://www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit http://www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files e-mailed directly to you.

How to do it…

Let's start off by importing a simple model from the Content Browser tab.

  1. Make sure that the Content Browser tab is at the Game folder and then click on the Import button.

  2. Once there, browse to the location where the example code of this chapter is placed and open the Ship folder. Select the Ship.fbx file and then click Open.

  3. You'll be prompted with an FBX import dialog, click on Import, and you should see your new asset included in the Content Browser tab, accompanied by Materials that was created to be used for the Ship model.

  4. The other way to import assets is simply by dragging and dropping them into the Content Browser tab. Let's do this by opening up our Ship folder in our operating system and then dragging it onto the asset view of the Content Browser tab. You'll notice that textures (images) do not have a dialogue like the model did.

  5. Currently, all of the objects have a * in the bottom-left corner of their images. This is because they are currently not saved to the project. Fix this by clicking on the Save icon (blue floppy disk) in the Content Browser tab.

    Alternatively, you may also right click within the Content Browser tab and then navigate to Import to /Game to import assets into your scene from whatever folder you are currently in.

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