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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

Drawing the HUD and preparing the lobby


Ok, the last thing we need to do is provide each player with an accurate readout of their own score/deaths! We will then also set up a pseudo multiplayer lobby by showing who is connected to the game, and that we are waiting on the server to initiate travel to the main multiplayer map. This, however, is going to require that we have information from the GameMode replicated to all clients, namely when the game has started. We already have a static bool present in the game mode that we can use, but we now need to replicate the value of this bool to all clients. The only way we can do that is with a GameState.

Creating the GameState

In a very similar way to PlayerStates of the PlayerController, we have GameStates for game modes. They are replicated objects that are replicated on all connected clients. We can use this game state to store variables pertaining to the game world within this state. Game states, by default, contain information on all of the currently...