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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 - Third Edition

By : Marcos Romero, Brenden Sewell
5 (1)
Book Image

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Marcos Romero, Brenden Sewell

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine's Blueprint visual scripting system enables designers to script their games and programmers to create base elements that can be extended by designers. With this book, you'll explore all the features of the Blueprint Editor, along with expert tips, shortcuts, and best practices. The book guides you through using variables, macros, and functions, and helps you learn about object-oriented programming (OOP). You'll discover the Gameplay Framework and advance to learning how Blueprint Communication allows one Blueprint to access information from another Blueprint. Later chapters focus on building a fully functional game step by step. You'll start with a basic first-person shooter (FPS) template, and each chapter will build on the prototype to create an increasingly complex and robust game experience. You'll then progress from creating basic shooting mechanics to more complex systems such as user interface elements and intelligent enemy behavior. The book demonstrates how to use arrays, maps, enums, and vector operations and introduces the elements needed for VR game development. In the final chapters, you’ll learn how to implement procedural generation and create a product configurator. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build a fully functional game and have the skills required to develop an entertaining experience for your audience.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
1
Part 1: Blueprint Fundamentals
6
Part 2: Developing a Game
11
Part 3: Enhancing the Game
16
Part 4: Advanced Blueprints
21
Part 5: Extra Tools

Chapter 17: Animation Blueprints

Part 4 presented data structures, flow control, math nodes, Blueprints tips, and an introduction to virtual reality development.

In Part 5, we will look at Animation Blueprints, Blueprint libraries and components, procedural generation, and the Product Configurator template.

This chapter presents the main elements of the Unreal Engine animation system, such as Skeleton, Skeletal Mesh, Animation Sequences, and Blend Spaces. It shows how to script an Animation Blueprint using EventGraph and AnimGraph. It also explains how State Machines are used in an animation and how to create new states for an animation.

These are the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Animation overview
  • Creating Animation Blueprints
  • Exploring State Machines
  • Importing the Animation Starter Pack
  • Adding Animation States

By the end of the chapter, you will know how to use Animation Blueprints and how to add Animation States.