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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

By : Reis, Hammad Fozi , Gonçalo Marques , David Pereira , Devin Sherry
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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

4.6 (35)
By: Reis, Hammad Fozi , Gonçalo Marques , David Pereira , Devin Sherry

Overview of this book

Game development can be both a creatively fulfilling hobby and a full-time career path. It's also an exciting way to improve your C++ skills and apply them in engaging and challenging projects. Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine starts with the basic skills you'll need to get started as a game developer. The fundamentals of game design will be explained clearly and demonstrated practically with realistic exercises. You’ll then apply what you’ve learned with challenging activities. The book starts with an introduction to the Unreal Editor and key concepts such as actors, blueprints, animations, inheritance, and player input. You'll then move on to the first of three projects: building a dodgeball game. In this project, you'll explore line traces, collisions, projectiles, user interface, and sound effects, combining these concepts to showcase your new skills. You'll then move on to the second project; a side-scroller game, where you'll implement concepts including animation blending, enemy AI, spawning objects, and collectibles. The final project is an FPS game, where you will cover the key concepts behind creating a multiplayer environment. By the end of this Unreal Engine 4 game development book, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to get started on your own creative UE4 projects and bring your ideas to life.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Preface

Spawning Actors

In Chapter 1, Unreal Engine Introduction, you learned how to place an actor that you created in the level through the editor, but what if you wanted to place that actor in the level as the game is being played? That's what we're going to be taking a look at now.

UE4, much like most other game development tools, allows you to place an actor in the game while the game itself is running. This process is called spawning. In order to spawn an actor in UE4, we need to call the SpawnActor function, available from the World object (which we can access using the GetWorld function, as mentioned previously). However, the SpawnActor function has a few parameters that need to be passed, as follows:

  • A UClass* property, which lets the function know the class of the object that will be spawned. This property can be a C++ class, available through the NameOfC++Class::StaticClass() function, or a Blueprint class, available through the TSubclassOf property. It...

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