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Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
Book Image

Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X

By: Muhammad A.Moniem

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 has garnered a lot of attention in the gaming world because of its new and improved graphics and rendering engine, the physics simulator, particle generator, and more. This book is the ideal guide to help you leverage all these features to create state-of-the-art games that capture the eye of your audience. Inside we’ll explain advanced shaders and effects techniques and how you can implement them in your games. You’ll create custom lighting effects, use the physics simulator to add that extra edge to your games, and create customized game environments that look visually stunning using the rendering technique. You’ll find out how to use the new rendering engine efficiently, add amazing post-processing effects, and use data tables to create data-driven gameplay that is engaging and exciting. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional games with stunning graphics using Unreal Engine 4!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Congratulations, you have just learned the necessary tools and techniques to be a noisy games developer. Games without audio makes for a bad experience; the minimum amount of audio and effects is essential to deliver an experience.

Regardless of the usage of an audio file, you have learned all the properties that you can tweak for a sound wave file. Whether it is background music, dialog, or effects, it doesn't matter. All of them share the same properties at the end of the day.

Of course Unreal Engine has a wide range of sound assets, a really wide range. Each has its own job, but all of them are here to allow you to be productive and give you the chance to control the tiniest detail that might be heard.

Sound cues are an amazing solution. Lots of other engines make you write your own tools to modularize the same set of sound files you have, but with the sound cue asset and its editor, it becomes very easy to modularize a small amount of sounds and shuffle between them in order to...