- Unreal Engine 4.X By Example
- Table of Contents
- Unreal Engine 4.X By Example
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4
- 2. Blueprints and Barrels – Your First Game
- Creating your first Blueprint
- Modifying the Hello Sphere Blueprint
- Creating the Barrel Hopper project!
- Creating our Character
- Game modes and how to make them
- Creating and receiving input events
- Building the level!
- Getting our barrels rolling
- Debugging our Blueprints
- Masking our destruction with particles
- Respawning the player
- Summary
- 3. Advanced Blueprint, Animation, and Sound
- Cleaning up shop
- Animation with UE4
- Animation Conventions
- Animation Blueprints
- Importing and exporting animation assets
- Creating your first animation Blueprint
- Navigating animation Blueprints
- Populating the Animation graph
- Working with state machines
- Finishing our state machine
- The Animation Blueprint Event graph
- Getting our character running
- Working with Blendspaces
- Creating your first sound scape
- Adding the finishing touches to Barrel Hopper
- Summary
- 4. Unreal Engine, C++, and You
- UE and C++
- Hello World for C++
- Extending C++ into Blueprint
- Blueprint native events and you!
- Summary
- 5. Upgrade Activated – Making Bounty Dash with C++
- Creating a C++ character
- Creating the Character
- Creating the C++ world objects
- Converting BSP brushes to a static mesh
- Smoke and mirrors with C++ objects
- Modifying the BountyDashGameMode
- Coding the floor
- Creating the obstacles
- Spawning actors from C++!
- Ensuring the Obstacle Spawner works
- Minting the coin object
- Making it rain coins, creating the coin spawner
- Testing what we have so far!
- Creating the interactions between the world objects
- Summary
- 6. Power Ups for Your Character, Power Ups for the User
- 7. Boss Mode Activated – Unreal Robots
- Setting up the project
- The first-person character
- Adding a custom HUD and drawing a cross hair
- Creating the projectile
- Unreal Robots
- Creating a basic behavior tree and black-board!
- Creating a custom task via blueprint
- Creating a custom decorator using blueprint
- Creating a custom service using C++
- Advanced collision in UE4
- Integrating the AI Character
- Creating a custom object collision channel
- Modifying the level to support AI
- Placing the AI in the level and testing
- Summary
- 8. Advanced AI and Unreal Rendering
- Expanded AI and tracking projectiles
- Tracking projectiles and you
- Expanded AI
- Rendering in UE4
- UE4 Materials
- Summary
- 9. Creating a Networked Shooter
- Creating the project
- Network multiplayer theory
- UE4 Networking
- Starting the networked First Person Shooter
- Preparing the ANSCharacter blueprint
- Spawn points and spawning the players
- Game modes and servers
- Preparing our game map
- Drawing the HUD and preparing the lobby
- Testing our Game
- Summary
- 10. Goodbyes and Thank yous
- Index
Benjamin Carnall is an enthusiastic and dedicated programmer whose love for problem solving led him to the world of game development. He relishes opportunities to learn new and interesting ways to create gameplay experiences for others. Ben began his journey with Game Development in 2012, after he graduated from Media Design School with a diploma in interactive gaming. He then went on to graduate from the same university with a bachelors of software engineering in 2014. Since then, Ben has immersed himself in the Game Development community of New Zealand—starting out as a programming contractor and working on various titles around Auckland. He then began to work as a lecturer at Media Design School and taught Graphics programming for games, Physics programming for games, and Sony PlayStation development at the bachelors level. Most recently, Ben has been working as a programmer for the studio Aroura44, developing a title called Ashen.
I would like to thank so many people for supporting me during the authoring of this book. Thanks to the wonderful people around me, I remained fed and happy while endeavoring to put into words the jumble of information that knocks around in my head.
Thank you to my parents for making sure I stayed healthy and well fed. Thank you to my lovely Emily, for keeping my morals high and my smile wide. Thanks to the team at Epic for making such an awesome engine! Without them I would not be writing this now. Thanks to my editor, Parshva Sheth, for working through this with me, we made it! And finally, I'd like to thank you, the reader, for taking a chance with this book and for jumping into the world of game development!
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