Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By : Benjamin Carnall

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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By: Benjamin Carnall

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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.

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Introduction to Unreal Engine 4

Navigating this book

Installing Unreal Engine 4

Creating your first project!

Navigating the Unreal Engine UI

Creating a basic actor

Pre-Built projects as a learning resource

Summary

Blueprints and Barrels – Your First Game

Creating your first Blueprint

Modifying the Hello Sphere Blueprint

Creating the Barrel Hopper project!

Creating our Character

Game modes and how to make them

Creating and receiving input events

Building the level!

Getting our barrels rolling

Debugging our Blueprints

Masking our destruction with particles

Respawning the player

Summary

Advanced Blueprint, Animation, and Sound

Cleaning up shop

Animation with UE4

Creating your first sound scape

Adding the finishing touches to Barrel Hopper

Summary

Unreal Engine, C++, and You

UE and C++

Hello World for C++

Extending C++ into Blueprint

Blueprint native events and you!

Summary

Upgrade Activated – Making Bounty Dash with C++

Creating a C++ character

Creating the Character

Creating the C++ world objects

Creating the interactions between the world objects

Summary

Power Ups for Your Character, Power Ups for the User

Cleaning up shop and object hierarchies

Creating a Plug-in with C++

Working with our first plugin module

Incorporating power-ups into Bounty Dash

Creating HUDs using C++

Completing the Bounty Dash game loop!

Finishing the wall of death and polishing the project

Summary

Boss Mode Activated – Unreal Robots

Setting up the project

The first-person character

Adding a custom HUD and drawing a cross hair

Creating the projectile

Unreal Robots

Creating a basic behavior tree and black-board!

Creating a custom task via blueprint

Creating a custom decorator using blueprint

Creating a custom service using C++

Advanced collision in UE4

Integrating the AI Character

Creating a custom object collision channel

Modifying the level to support AI

Placing the AI in the level and testing

Summary

Advanced AI and Unreal Rendering

Expanded AI and tracking projectiles

Tracking projectiles and you

Expanded AI

Rendering in UE4

UE4 Materials

Summary

Creating a Networked Shooter

Creating the project

Network multiplayer theory

UE4 Networking

Starting the networked First Person Shooter

Preparing the ANSCharacter blueprint

Spawn points and spawning the players

Game modes and servers

Preparing our game map

Drawing the HUD and preparing the lobby

Testing our Game

Summary

Goodbyes and Thank yous

Packaging a project

Testing the NS package

Console commands

What we have learned so far

Summary

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

Spawn points and spawning the players

With every multiplayer game, there is always going to be the need to spawn players at some point. We are going to need spawn points that can act as word space locations for the game mode to identify to be used as player spawn locations. We are also going to require these spawn points to identify with a team color so only the blue team gets spawned at one set of points, and the red team at another. The other hitch is that this spawning must only take place on the server, but we can handle that from the game mode code object. For now, open up the C++ class wizard and create a code object called NSSpawnPoint that inherits from AActor.

Defining the ANSSpawnPoint class

Navigate to NSSpawnPoint.h, add #include "NSGameMode.h", and ensure the class definition matches the following:

UCLASS()
class NS_API ANSSpawnPoint : public AActor
{
    GENERATED_BODY()
    
public:
// Sets default values for this actor's properties
    ANSSpawnPoint();
    
    // Called every...

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By : Benjamin Carnall

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By: Benjamin Carnall

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Defining the ANSSpawnPoint class