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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

By : Muhammad A.Moniem
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Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

Learning Unreal Engine iOS Game Development

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By: Muhammad A.Moniem
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer, designer, artist, or a beginner in the gaming industry, and want to make iOS games efficiently at a low cost, this book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What will be covered?
Who this book is for
What you need for this book
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
1. Prepare to Make Unreal Games with Unreal® Engine – Installing and Setting Up
Getting ready and setting up
Getting and building the engine
Preparing the other required tools
Preparing a game profile on the App Store
Adding devices
Generating provisioning profiles
Summary
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2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
2. Methods and Tools to Create Your Games
Blueprints inside Unreal® Engine
The need for blueprints
What is a node?
The iOS/Mobile-only nodes
Blueprints – tips and tricks
The iOS project pipeline
Building the game's provisioning profiles
Building a project
Summary
3
3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
3. Creating a Brick Breaking Game
The project structure
Building the blueprints
Building the game mode
Building the game's main material
Summary
4
4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
4. Advanced Game Content Generation with a Fruit Chopper Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
An overview of blueprints
The gameplay mechanic
Building the particles
Building the blueprints
Summary
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5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
5. Building an Exciting Endless Runner Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
Building the animated sprites
An overview of blueprints
The gameplay mechanics
Building the blueprints
Building the logic
Pushing the boundaries
Summary
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6. Designing an Advanced Game
6. Designing an Advanced Game
The project structure
Importing the assets
Building the animated sprites
The blueprints
The gameplay mechanic
Building the blueprints
Building the logic
Using 2D colliders
Pushing the boundaries
Summary
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7. Monetizing Your Game
7. Monetizing Your Game
iAd support
iTunes Connect
Adding in-app purchases
Adding leaderboards
Adding achievements
Summary
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
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8. iOS Debugging and Optimization
Blueprints Live view
Printing messages
Breakpoints
XCode tools
Debug Navigator
Capturing frames
Instruments
Performance optimization
Minimizing the game size
Summary
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9. Publishing
9. Publishing
Packaging the project
Editing the game profile
Uploading and submiting for review
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A. Nodes Database
A. Nodes Database
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Index
Index

Performance optimization

iOS devices and mobiles in general can run games with a high frame rate, but there are some disadvantages that you need to take care of to make sure that the game will be running at its best frame rate. Here are some points that you need to check while working with Unreal games for iOS:

  • Try not to use real-time lights and try to use baked lightmaps

  • Make sure that you build all of the lighting before building to the device

  • Pooling the actors is better than destroying and spawning them

  • Don't use post process effects on the camera

  • Make sure to have less than 700 draw calls in the camera view

  • Use as few materials as possible to get fewer draw calls

  • Use as few textures as possible; using atlases is a great way to optimize the textures' amount and size

  • Square texture (power of two) is the best texture for iOS devices

  • The tries count should not be more than 500,000 in the camera view

  • Use PrecomputedVisibilityVolumes if your game has lots of 3D meshes

  • Try not to use HDR or LDR if possible...

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