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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

Finishing the wall of death and polishing the project


We are so nearly finished with BountyDash. The only things we have yet to do are to add the soundscape, add the particle effects, make the character run, and create the illusion of a wall of death! These small feature additions will add to the overall polish of the project and add that Unreal Factor that separates Unreal projects from others. We can leave the sound and particle effects till last as they will require less work than the wall of death.

Making the wall of death

We can finally make our invisible wall of death! In a way, we have been working with it this whole time. The killPoint variable we have been using to destroy objects and end the game has been our wall thus far. What we are going to do is utilize the same logic with the Destructible Mesh feature of UE4 and our AFloor object. We are going to be modifying the floor so that instead of having three long floor pieces constantly moving and swapping out, we are going to have...