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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209220
Pages 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (4):
Hammad Fozi Hammad Fozi
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Gonçalo Marques Gonçalo Marques
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David Pereira David Pereira
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Devin Sherry Devin Sherry
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface
1. Unreal Engine Introduction 2. Working with Unreal Engine 3. Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup 4. Player Input 5. Line Traces 6. Collision Objects 7. UE4 Utilities 8. User Interfaces 9. Audio-Visual Elements 10. Creating a SuperSideScroller Game 11. Blend Spaces 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines 12. Animation Blending and Montages 13. Enemy Artificial Intelligence 14. Spawning the Player Projectile 15. Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups 16. Multiplayer Basics 17. Remote Procedure Calls 18. Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer

Manipulating Actors

In Unreal Engine, all the objects that can be placed in a level are referred to as Actors. In a movie, an actor would be a human playing a character, but in UE4, every single object you see in your level, including walls, floors, weapons, and characters, is an Actor.

Every Actor must have what's called a Transform property, which is a collection of three things:

  • Location: A Vector property signifying the position of that Actor in the level in the X, Y, and Z axis. A vector is simply a tuple with three floating point numbers, one for the location of the point in each axis.
  • Rotation: A Rotator property signifying the rotation of that Actor along the X, Y, and Z axis. A rotator is also a tuple with three floating point numbers, one for the angle of rotation in each axis.
  • Scale: A Vector property signifying the scale (meaning size) of that Actor in the level in the X, Y, and Z axis. This is also a collection of three floating point numbers...
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