- 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
Awesome! We are done with the BossMode project! We won't be adding an end game state or restart functionality to this project as we have already covered those in previous chapters. What we have achieved, however, is a boss character that is controlled by AI that we created ourselves and rendered with our own materials. Over this chapter you learnt how to make enumerations in C++ that can be used for behavior tree logics via blackboard. You created your own BT Task in C++, as well modified our AI Controller to arm the boss with a salvo of missiles. We expanded our AI tree to incorporate two new AI states with their own associated behavior. We peaked into the vast depth that is the Unreal rendering system and created our own materials. It is now time to finally utilize all of the skills we have learnt in the book thus far and take it to the next level. In the next chapter we will be creating our own networked first-person shooter! See you there!
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