- 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
Rendering when used in video games terms means the drawing of the various elements within a scene to produce a final image that is the game in its current visual state. We do this every frame, hopefully at 60 frames per second, to create smooth and immersive game worlds within which players can engage and explore. Unreal Engine 4 features one of the most robust and modern rendering engines that can be found in today's game development platforms. The rendering system is an all-new, DirectX 11 pipeline that includes deferred shading, global illumination, and many more interesting features.
It is with this rendering engine that you can tap into the powerhouse of Unreal and create game titles with visuals at the highest end of quality and technology. The next section of this chapter will detail how we can tap into the Unreal Engine rendering systems with ease and usability via the UE4 material system.
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