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Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
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Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X

By: Muhammad A.Moniem

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 has garnered a lot of attention in the gaming world because of its new and improved graphics and rendering engine, the physics simulator, particle generator, and more. This book is the ideal guide to help you leverage all these features to create state-of-the-art games that capture the eye of your audience. Inside we’ll explain advanced shaders and effects techniques and how you can implement them in your games. You’ll create custom lighting effects, use the physics simulator to add that extra edge to your games, and create customized game environments that look visually stunning using the rendering technique. You’ll find out how to use the new rendering engine efficiently, add amazing post-processing effects, and use data tables to create data-driven gameplay that is engaging and exciting. By the end of this book, you will be able to create professional games with stunning graphics using Unreal Engine 4!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Setting Up Your Warrior

Once we have the project set up and running, it is time to start making the game itself and put something together that we can call a playable game.

The most important part of any game is the player controller. Regardless of the game genre and type, the player has to control the game somehow. It may be in the form of controlling the environment or controlling a character through the environment, or even something else.

Because the game we are building here is a third-person type of game, our players will have to control a character (I'm calling him The Gladiator). This character will be based on the Unreal character class, as it gives us many benefits and saves us lots of time because the character class is basically a Pawn class and pawns are actors that are controlled either by the player or AI. The character class we are building is going to be fully controlled by mouse and keyboard or the gamepad controller.

Keep in mind that we are building our own character...