Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

John P. Doran

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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

John P. Doran

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Over 40 recipes to accelerate the process of learning game design and solving development problems using Unreal Engine

About This Book

  • Explore the quickest way to tackle common challenges faced in Unreal Engine
  • Create your own content, levels, light scenes, and materials, and work with Blueprints and C++ scripting
  • An intermediate, fast-paced Unreal Engine guide with targeted recipes to design games within its framework

Who This Book Is For

This book is for those who are relatively experienced with Unreal Engine 4 and have knowledge of its fundamentals. Working knowledge of C++ is required.

What You Will Learn

  • Discover editor functionalities for an in-depth insight into game design
  • Develop environments using terrain for outdoor areas and a workflow for interiors as well using brushes
  • Design various kinds of materials with unique features, such as mirrors and glows
  • Explore the various ways that lighting can be used in the engine
  • Build various level effects using Blueprints, Unreal's visual scripting system
  • Set up a development environment and develop custom functionality with C++ for your games
  • Create healthbars and main menus with animations using Slate, Unreal's UI solution, through the UMG Editor
  • Package and create an installer to get your project out into the world

In Detail

Unreal Engine is powerful tool with rich functionalities to create games. It equips you with the skills to easily build mobile and desktop games from scratch without worrying about which platform they will run on. You can focus on the individual complexities of game development such as animation and rendering.

This book takes you on a journey to jumpstart your game design efforts. You will learn various aspects of the Unreal engine commonly encountered with practical examples of how it can be used, with numerous references for further study. You will start by getting acquainted with Unreal Engine 4 and building out levels for your game. This will be followed by recipes to help you create environments, place meshes, and implement your characters. You will then learn to work with lights, camera, and shadows to include special effects in your game. Moving on, you'll learn Blueprint scripting and C++ programming to enable you to achieve trigger effects and add simple functionalities. By the end of the book, you will see how to create a healthbar and main menu, and then get your game ready to be deployed and published.

Style and approach

This book offers detailed, easy-to-follow recipes that will help you master a wide range of Unreal Engine 4's features. Every recipe provides step-by-step instructions, with explanations of how these features work, and alternative approaches and research materials so you can learn even more.

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Information

Verlag
Packt Publishing
Jahr
2015
ISBN
9781784398163
Auflage
1
Thema
Informatik
Thema
Programmierung von Spielen

Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it

How it works

There's more

See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface
Introduction
Installing UE4 and folder structure
How to do it

There's more

UI overview
Getting ready
How to do it

Navigating the viewport
How to do it

The Content Browser overview
Getting ready
How to do it

Importing your own content
Getting ready
How to do it

2. Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing
Introduction
Building a room
Getting ready
How to do it

Building out a level
Getting ready
Some keyboard tips
Seeing double – duplicating elements
How to do it

Applying materials to geometry brushes
Getting ready
How to do it

Converting brushes to static meshes or volumes
Getting ready
How to do it

3. Creating Quality Interior Environments
Introduction
Placing static meshes
Getting ready
How to do it

Placing a particle system
Getting ready
How to do it

Using Groups
Getting ready
How to do it

Meshing an example map
Getting ready
How to do it

Adding life to static meshes
Getting ready
How to do it

4. Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments
Introduction
Creating a landscape
Getting ready
How to do it

Building an exterior level using the Sculpt mode
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating rivers with the Flatten tool
Getting ready
How to do it

Placing trees and rocks using the Foliage tool
Getting ready
How to do it

Streaming levels
Getting ready
How to do it

5. Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics
Introduction
An introduction to Matinee
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating an opening cutscene
Getting ready
How to do it

Playing a Matinee via Blueprints
Getting ready
How to do it

Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode
Getting ready
How to do it

See also
6. Lighting and Shadows
Introduction
Lighting overview – learning the types of lights
Getting ready
How to do it

Adding moveable lights – flashlight, part 1
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating a Day/Night cycle
Getting ready
How to do it

See also
7. Art Pipeline – Working with Materials
Introduction
Creating a custom material
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating a mirror material
Getting ready
How to do it

Using Textures and normal maps with Materials
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating glowing materials with static emissive lighting
Getting ready
How to do it

Seeing through walls
Getting ready
How to do it

See also
8. Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects
Introduction
Building a flickering light
Getting ready
How to do it

Converting from Level to Class Blueprints
Getting ready
How to do it

Using Trigger Volumes – opening a door using Matinee
Getting ready
How to do it

Adding to an existing Blueprint – flashlight, part 2
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating a Health/Damage system, part 1 – taking damage
Getting ready
How to do it

See also
9. C++ Programming – Gameplay
Introduction
When to use C++/Blueprints
Setting up your development environment
Getting ready
How to do it

Displaying text during runtime
Getting ready
How to do it

Networking 101 – creating collectables with networking
Getting ready
How to do it

Saving or loading games and keyboard input with C++
Getting ready
How to do it

Creating custom blueprint nodes
Getting ready
How to do it

See also
10. User Interface
Introduction
Creating a Health/Damage system, part 2 – creating a healthbar
Getting ready
How to do it

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