Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface

Introduction

Installing UE4 and folder structure

UI overview

Navigating the viewport

The Content Browser overview

Importing your own content

Chapter 2. Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing

Introduction

Building a room

Building out a level

Applying materials to geometry brushes

Converting brushes to static meshes or volumes

Chapter 3. Creating Quality Interior Environments

Introduction

Placing static meshes

Placing a particle system

Using Groups

Meshing an example map

Adding life to static meshes

Chapter 4. Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments

Introduction

Creating a landscape

Building an exterior level using the Sculpt mode

Creating rivers with the Flatten tool

Placing trees and rocks using the Foliage tool

Streaming levels

Chapter 5. Lights Camera Action – Cinematics

Introduction

An introduction to Matinee

Creating an opening cutscene

Playing a Matinee via Blueprints

Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode

Chapter 6. Lighting and Shadows

Introduction

Lighting overview – learning the types of lights

Adding moveable lights – flashlight part 1

Creating a Day/Night cycle

Chapter 7. Art Pipeline – Working with Materials

Introduction

Creating a custom material

Creating a mirror material

Using Textures and normal maps with Materials

Creating glowing materials with static emissive lighting

Seeing through walls

Chapter 8. Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects

Introduction

Building a flickering light

Converting from Level to Class Blueprints

Using Trigger Volumes – opening a door using Matinee

Adding to an existing Blueprint – flashlight part 2

Creating a Health/Damage system part 1 – taking damage

Chapter 9. C++ Programming – Gameplay

Introduction

Setting up your development environment

Displaying text during runtime

Networking 101 – creating collectables with networking

Saving or loading games and keyboard input with C++

Creating custom blueprint nodes

Chapter 10. User Interface

Introduction

Creating a Health/Damage system part 2 – creating a healthbar

Dynamic enemy healthbars

Creating a main menu

Animating a menu

Chapter 11. Publishing and Deployment

Introduction

Packaging your project

Creating an installer for Windows