- 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
Matt Matte is the founder of Full Metal Jacket Games, and he was recently featured on Unreal Engine's Spotlight Projects section with their Tron- inspired VR game. Matt is the official Seattle Unreal Engine Rep and the organizer of the largest Unreal Engine Meetup in the world, with over 800 members. He's published three games with Unreal Engine. The latest game released in August 2016 is Monkey Land 3D: Reaper Rush.
Matt has over 10 years of experience in Unreal Engine, starting with building mods in the Unreal Engine 3 editor and then moving on to UDK and UE4 to build completely original titles. He's an expert Unreal developer and technical artist that specializes in setting up characters, both controlled by a player and Artificial Intelligence, including rigging and creating animations, setting up physics with the PHAT editor, animation blueprints, and blending, AI behavior trees, and synchronized special effects. He's created games with Blueprints only and a hybrid of both C++ and Blueprints.
His primary focus is on virtual reality games. F.M.J. Games has won two Seattle VR Hackathons for best graphics and experience. They also won the Peoples Choice Award for NASA's 2015 Space Apps Challenge, all with UE4 and its powerful real-time rendering. They've been awarded new VR hardware by Epic, Oculus, and Valve for their accomplishments in VR design.
Matt has reviewed the blueprints and code in this book and tested that they work and are fully functional. Contact Matt through www.fmjgames.com for anything Unreal Engine game development related.
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