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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

Adding different screens


A game may be not made by one company, and there should be a publisher and developer at least. Both of them may want to include their fancy logos as splash screens at the beginning of the game. Usually a game by default will include only the Unreal Engine logo at the beginning of it, and before launching any of the maps. But Unreal Engine gives you the choice to add any amount of splash screens in the form of videos, but all come after the Unreal Engine logo.

The splash screen or movie set of options that is provided by the Unreal Engine can be found under Project Settings, but this time within the Movies section. And these options include the following:

  • Movies: This has the following options:

    • Wait for Movies to Complete: Setting this option to true, the game will wait for all the movies to be completed, and then run the game, even if the game loading has already completed.

    • Movies Are Skippable: Setting this option to true will allow the player to skip the start-up...