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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By : Benjamin Carnall
Book Image

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By: Benjamin Carnall

Overview of this book

With Unreal Engine 4 being made free to use, for any keen game developer it is quickly becoming the most popular game engine in today’s development industry. The engine offers a rich feature set that can be customized and built upon through the use of C++. This book will cover how to work with Unreal Engine’s tool set all the way from the basics of the editor and the visual scripting system blueprint to the in-depth low-level creation of content using C++. This book will provide you with the skills you need to create feature-rich, captivating, and refined game titles with Unreal Engine 4. This book will take you through the creation of four unique game projects, designed so that you will be ready to apply the engine’s rich development capabilities. You will learn not only to take advantage of the visual tools of the engine, but also the vast and powerful programming feature set of Unreal Engine 4.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Unreal Engine 4.X By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hello World for C++


Before we begin to create an in-depth game project like Barrel Hopper, we will first return to the good old Hello World idea. We are going to be creating something very similar to what we created in Chapter 1, Introduction to Unreal Engine 4 yet, this time, purely in C++! We can start by creating a new C++ project. Open Unreal Engine 4.10 via the Epic Games Launcher then select the New Project tab like we did before, however this time we are going to be choosing the C++ tab. From the collection of project templates, select Basic Code.

Call this project Hello Code. There will be a small waiting period while the engine prepares your project. Once finished you will be presented with an editor window and a Visual Studio project will have opened. The first thing we are going to do is add a new code class to our project. Do this by selecting New C++ Class… from the File dropdown located in the top left-hand corner of the main editor window.

This will open the class creation wizard...