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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

By : Hammad Fozi, Gonçalo Marques, David Pereira, Devin Sherry
Book Image

Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

By: Hammad Fozi, Gonçalo Marques, David Pereira, Devin Sherry

Overview of this book

Game development can be both a creatively fulfilling hobby and a full-time career path. It's also an exciting way to improve your C++ skills and apply them in engaging and challenging projects. Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine starts with the basic skills you'll need to get started as a game developer. The fundamentals of game design will be explained clearly and demonstrated practically with realistic exercises. You’ll then apply what you’ve learned with challenging activities. The book starts with an introduction to the Unreal Editor and key concepts such as actors, blueprints, animations, inheritance, and player input. You'll then move on to the first of three projects: building a dodgeball game. In this project, you'll explore line traces, collisions, projectiles, user interface, and sound effects, combining these concepts to showcase your new skills. You'll then move on to the second project; a side-scroller game, where you'll implement concepts including animation blending, enemy AI, spawning objects, and collectibles. The final project is an FPS game, where you will cover the key concepts behind creating a multiplayer environment. By the end of this Unreal Engine 4 game development book, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to get started on your own creative UE4 projects and bring your ideas to life.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Preface

Anim Notifies and Anim Notify States

When it comes to creating polished and complex animations, there needs to be a way for animators and programmers to add custom events within the animation that will allow for additional effects, layers, and functionality to occur. The solution in Unreal Engine 4 is to use Anim Notifies and Anim Notify States.

The main difference between Anim Notify and Anim Notify State is that Anim Notify State possesses three distinct events that Anim Notify does not. These events are Notify Begin, Notify End, and Notify Tick, all of which can be used in Blueprints or C++. When it comes to these events, Unreal Engine 4 secures the following behaviors:

  • Notify State will always start with Notify Begin Event.
  • Notify State will always finish with Notify End Event.
  • Notify Tick Event will always take place between the Notify Begin and Notify End events.

Anim Notify, however, is a much more simplified version that uses just a single function...