Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Quick Start Guide by Cordone, Rachel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright and Credits

Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Quick Start Guide

About Packt

Why subscribe? Packt.com

Contributors

About the author About the reviewer Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for What this book covers To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files Download the color images Conventions used

Get in touch

Reviews

Introduction to Unreal Engine 4

Downloading the UE

Using project templates Initial project setup

The Unreal editor

The Content Browser The Viewport

Viewport options Grid and snap settings

The toolbar World Outliner Details and World Settings

World settings

Editor preferences

Project settings Input settings

Installing and using plugins Adding marketplace items to your project Summary

Programming Using Blueprints

The Blueprint window

Variables

Using variables in the Blueprint window Working With Object/Actor References Casting object references Class default variables

Functions

Local variables

Events

Overridable functions

Graphs Components

Common components Component events

Time for action

Creating a Blueprint from scratch One small material change Creating a child Blueprint Giving our game a goal

Summary

Adding C++ to a Blueprint Project

Technical requirements Creating C++ classes in UE4

Using C++ classes in UE4

Using C++ variables in Blueprint Using C++ functions in Blueprint

BlueprintCallable functions BlueprintPure functions Using out variables in C++

Using events in C++ Summary

Creating HUDs and Menus Using UMG

The Widget Blueprint window

Showing Widget Blueprints in our game

Setting up an interactive menu

Commonly used widgets

The Common section

Button Checkbox Image Progress Bar Slider Text

The Input section

ComboBox Editable Text

The Primitive and Special Effects sections

Circular Throbber and Throbber Background Blur

Using widget events

Widget set nodes Variable binding Adding widgets to other widgets

Modifying the Pickup class Creating the child widget Creating the container widget Adding the container to the HUD

Summary

Animation Blueprints

Creating the attachment

Creating sockets on Skeletal Meshes Spawning and attaching Actors

Animation retargeting

Setting up the source Skeleton Setting up the target Skeleton Retarget the animation

Adding a weapon Equip control

Modifying the Animation Blueprint

The AnimGraph Modifying an Animation state

Summary

AI with Behavior Tree and Blackboard

Creating a simple AI

Creating a Pawn for the enemy Creating a controller for the enemy Pawn Adding a Nav Mesh

Behavior Trees

Creating and running a Behavior Tree Setting up a simple Behavior Tree Setting up a Blackboard

Assigning the Blackboard to a Behavior Tree

Creating a Behavior Tree task

Selectors Decorators Services

Setting up Service in Blackboard

Summary

Multiplayer Games

The client–server model

Testing a listen server

Replication

Variable replication Event replication Flow control in multiplayer Actor replication Multiplayer classes

GameMode and GameState PlayerState, PlayerController, and Pawn

Summary

Optimization, Testing, and Packaging

Optimization The Profiler Blueprint Nativization Debugging in UE4 Packing a project Summary

Another Book You May Enjoy

Leave a review - let other readers know what you think

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →