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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 - Third Edition

You're reading from  Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811583
Pages 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Authors (2):
Marcos Romero Marcos Romero
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Brenden Sewell Brenden Sewell
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Blueprint Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Blueprint Editor 3. Chapter 2: Programming with Blueprints 4. Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming and the Gameplay Framework 5. Chapter 4: Understanding Blueprint Communication 6. Part 2: Developing a Game
7. Chapter 5: Object Interaction with Blueprints 8. Chapter 6: Enhancing Player Abilities 9. Chapter 7: Creating Screen UI Elements 10. Chapter 8: Creating Constraints and Gameplay Objectives 11. Part 3: Enhancing the Game
12. Chapter 9: Building Smart Enemies with Artificial Intelligence 13. Chapter 10: Upgrading the AI Enemies 14. Chapter 11: Game States and Applying the Finishing Touches 15. Chapter 12: Building and Publishing 16. Part 4: Advanced Blueprints
17. Chapter 13: Data Structures and Flow Control 18. Chapter 14: Math and Trace Nodes 19. Chapter 15: Blueprints Tips 20. Chapter 16: Introduction to VR Development 21. Part 5: Extra Tools
22. Chapter 17: Animation Blueprints 23. Chapter 18: Creating Blueprint Libraries and Components 24. Chapter 19: Procedural Generation 25. Chapter 20: Creating a Product Configurator Using the Variant Manager 26. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Animating a zoomed view

A core element of modern first-person shooters is a variable field of view (FOV) in the form of a player's ability to look down the scope of a gun to get a closer view of a target. This is a significant contributor to the feeling of accuracy and control that modern shooters provide. Let's add a simple form of this functionality to our prototype. To do that, follow these steps:

  1. In an empty section of the grid next to your Mouse input nodes, right-click, search for zoom, and add a Zoom Event node.
  2. We want to modify the FOV value that is contained within the First Person Camera Component, so go to the Components panel and drag First Person Camera out onto Event Graph.
  3. Drag the output pin of First Person Camera node into empty grid space, search for the Set Field Of View node, and place it. Lowering the FOV gives the effect of zooming into a narrower area in the center of the screen. Since the Default FOV value is set to 90, for our zoom...
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