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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

By : Carnall
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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

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By: Carnall
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Overview of this book

With Unreal Engine 4 being made free to use, for any keen game developer it is quickly becoming the most popular game engine in today’s development industry. The engine offers a rich feature set that can be customized and built upon through the use of C++. This book will cover how to work with Unreal Engine’s tool set all the way from the basics of the editor and the visual scripting system blueprint to the in-depth low-level creation of content using C++. This book will provide you with the skills you need to create feature-rich, captivating, and refined game titles with Unreal Engine 4. This book will take you through the creation of four unique game projects, designed so that you will be ready to apply the engine’s rich development capabilities. You will learn not only to take advantage of the visual tools of the engine, but also the vast and powerful programming feature set of Unreal Engine 4.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4
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1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4
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Navigating this book
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Installing Unreal Engine 4
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Creating your first project!
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Navigating the Unreal Engine UI
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Creating a basic actor
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Pre-Built projects as a learning resource
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Summary
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2. Blueprints and Barrels – Your First Game
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2. Blueprints and Barrels – Your First Game
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Creating your first Blueprint
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Modifying the Hello Sphere Blueprint
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Creating the Barrel Hopper project!
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Creating our Character
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Game modes and how to make them
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Creating and receiving input events
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Building the level!
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Getting our barrels rolling
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Debugging our Blueprints
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Masking our destruction with particles
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Respawning the player
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3. Advanced Blueprint, Animation, and Sound
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3. Advanced Blueprint, Animation, and Sound
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Cleaning up shop
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Animation with UE4
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Creating your first sound scape
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Adding the finishing touches to Barrel Hopper
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Summary
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4. Unreal Engine, C++, and You
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4. Unreal Engine, C++, and You
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UE and C++
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Hello World for C++
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Extending C++ into Blueprint
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Blueprint native events and you!
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5. Upgrade Activated – Making Bounty Dash with C++
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5. Upgrade Activated – Making Bounty Dash with C++
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Creating a C++ character
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Creating the Character
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Creating the C++ world objects
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Creating the interactions between the world objects
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6. Power Ups for Your Character, Power Ups for the User
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6. Power Ups for Your Character, Power Ups for the User
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Cleaning up shop and object hierarchies
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Creating a Plug-in with C++
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Working with our first plugin module
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Incorporating power-ups into Bounty Dash
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Creating HUDs using C++
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Completing the Bounty Dash game loop!
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Finishing the wall of death and polishing the project
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7. Boss Mode Activated – Unreal Robots
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7. Boss Mode Activated – Unreal Robots
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Setting up the project
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The first-person character
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Adding a custom HUD and drawing a cross hair
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Creating the projectile
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Unreal Robots
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Creating a basic behavior tree and black-board!
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Creating a custom task via blueprint
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Creating a custom decorator using blueprint
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Creating a custom service using C++
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Advanced collision in UE4
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Integrating the AI Character
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Creating a custom object collision channel
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Modifying the level to support AI
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Placing the AI in the level and testing
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8. Advanced AI and Unreal Rendering
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8. Advanced AI and Unreal Rendering
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Expanded AI and tracking projectiles
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Tracking projectiles and you
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Expanded AI
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Rendering in UE4
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UE4 Materials
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9. Creating a Networked Shooter
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9. Creating a Networked Shooter
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Creating the project
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Network multiplayer theory
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UE4 Networking
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Starting the networked First Person Shooter
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Preparing the ANSCharacter blueprint
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Spawn points and spawning the players
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Game modes and servers
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Preparing our game map
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Drawing the HUD and preparing the lobby
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Testing our Game
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10. Goodbyes and Thank yous
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10. Goodbyes and Thank yous
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Packaging a project
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Testing the NS package
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Console commands
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What we have learned so far
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Index
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Creating a C++ character

Alright! Let's start the development of Bounty Dash by creating the character that we will be using for this project. Due to the nature of an endless runner, we can create a fairly simple input and movement implementation for the character. This is a great place to start with creating C++ characters, as they can quickly become complicated and involved!

Create the C++ project

Before we start building the character, we first need to create the project. Open Unreal Engine 4.10 and select the Basic Code project template we used for the last chapter. This time call the project Bounty Dash. Upon opening the project, select New Level… from the File dropdown. From the available map options, choose Default. This will provide us with a nice simple base to work from. Save this map as BountyDashMap.

The gameplay for BountyDash will be quite simple, there will be a seemingly infinite progression of objects that the player is running towards. The player must dodge the objects by...

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