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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

Building the blueprint


Now, creating the blueprint is very simple, as always. Just create a new blueprint, but this time base it on the CoinPickup class.

Name it whatever you want, it will not make a difference. The method we followed is not affected by naming. After creating it, open the blueprint editor, and set the coin mesh as the mesh asset you have (feel free to get the one I made from my project by following the Migrate assets from Chapter 1, Preparing for a Big Project).

Now it's time for the last step before throwing it into the map. Just change Collision Presets to OverlapAll. This way we make sure it is not an obstacle for the AI, and doesn't block the player.

Throw some coins onto the map, in different places, and then hit Play. You'll notice that once you touch any coin with the gladiator, the coin will disappear right away; and its value will be added to your stock, and it will all be printed onto the screen.