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Mastering Unreal Engine 4.X

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
Book Image

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

Adding the blueprint to the GameMode


Once everything is in place, all that we need now is to make sure that the GameMode class for the game (or for this level) is going to load our Gladiator blueprint by default once the game starts.

Open the Visual Studio project again, go to the BellzGameMode source file, and add this piece of code inside its constructor, in order to set the DefaultPawnClass by defining which blueprint is to be used by specifying its name and path within the project.

static ConstructorHelpers::FClassFinder<APawn> PlayerPawnBPClass(TEXT("/Game/Blueprints/GladiatorCharacter"));
  if (PlayerPawnBPClass.Class != NULL)
  {
    DefaultPawnClass = PlayerPawnBPClass.Class;
  }

And now, if you start an empty level with the basic elements, or even one of the free asset levels, you'll have the Gladiator fully interactive inside the level.