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Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook

Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook

By : John P. Doran, Sherif, Whittle
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Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook

Unreal Engine 4.x Scripting with C++ Cookbook

4.1 (10)
By: John P. Doran, Sherif, Whittle

Overview of this book

Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a popular and award-winning game engine that powers some of the most popular games. A truly powerful tool for game development, there has never been a better time to use it for both commercial and independent projects. With more than 100 recipes, this book shows how to unleash the power of C++ while developing games with Unreal Engine. This book takes you on a journey to jumpstart your C++ and UE4 development skills. You will start off by setting up UE4 for C++ development and learn how to work with Visual Studio, a popular code editor. You will learn how to create C++ classes and structs the Unreal way. This will be followed by exploring memory management, smart pointers, and debugging your code. You will then learn how to make your own Actors and Components through code and how to handle input and collision events. You will also get exposure to many elements of game development including creating user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and writing code with networked play in mind. You will also learn how to add on to the Unreal Editor itself. With a range of task-oriented recipes, this book provides actionable information about writing code for games with UE4 using C++. By the end of the book, you will be empowered to become a top-notch developer with UE4 using C++ as your scripting language!
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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To get the most out of this book

  • This book assumes familiarity with the C++ programming language, an understanding of what different programming operators mean, and basic knowledge of the concepts of object-oriented programming
  • Basic familiarity with using the Unreal Engine editor is beneficial, but not required

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Start typing Theme Editor into the search box at the right."

A block of code is set as follows:

FString name = "Tim"; 
int32 mana = 450; 
FString string = FString::Printf( TEXT( "Name = %s Mana = 
%d" ), *name, mana );

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// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.

#include "Chapter_01GameModeBase.h"

void AChapter_01GameModeBase::BeginPlay()
{
Super::BeginPlay();
}

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Play around with the font and font size of Text Editor/Plain Text."

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