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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

Build professional 3D games with Unreal Engine 4's Visual Scripting system
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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine

Brenden Sewell

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Build professional 3D games with Unreal Engine 4's Visual Scripting system
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ISBN 139781785286018
Paperback188 pages

Book Description

Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine is a step-by-step approach to building a fully functional game, one system at a time. Starting with a basic First Person Shooter template, each chapter will extend the prototype to create an increasingly complex and robust game experience. You will progress from creating basic shooting mechanics to gradually more complex systems that will generate user interface elements and intelligent enemy behavior. Focusing on universally applicable skills, the expertise you will develop in utilizing Blueprints can translate to other types of genres.

By the time you finish the book, you will have a fully functional First Person Shooter game and the skills necessary to expand on the game to develop an entertaining, memorable experience for your players.

From making customizations to player movement to creating new AI and game mechanics from scratch, you will discover everything you need to know to get started with game development using Blueprints and Unreal Engine 4.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Object Interaction with Blueprints
Creating a project and the first level
Adding objects to our level
Exploring materials
Creating our first Blueprint
Adding movement
Changing direction
Summary
Chapter 2: Enhancing Player Abilities
Adding the running functionality by extending a Blueprint
Animating a zoom view
Adding sound and particle effects
Summary
Chapter 3: Creating Screen UI Elements
Creating simple UI meters with UMG
Connecting UI values to player variables
Tracking the ammo and eliminated targets
Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Constraints and Gameplay Objectives
Constraining player actions
Creating collectable objects
Setting a gameplay win condition
Summary
Chapter 5: Making Moving Enemies with AI
Setting up the enemy actor to navigate
Creating navigation behavior
Making the AI chase the player
Summary
Chapter 6: Upgrading the AI Enemies
Creating an enemy attack
Making enemies hear and investigate sounds
Making the enemies destructible
Spawning more enemies during gameplay
Creating enemy wandering behavior
Summary
Chapter 7: Tracking Game States and Applying Finishing Touches
Making danger real with player death
Setting up a lose screen
Creating round-based scaling with saved games
Pausing the game and resetting the save file
Summary
Chapter 8: Building and Publishing
Optimizing your graphics settings
Setting up our game to be played by others
Steps for further learning
Summary

What You Will Learn

  • Prototype and iterate new game mechanics rapidly
  • Customize the player's abilities and controls
  • Build user interface elements, including health bars and objective counters
  • Set up interactions between player actions and game objects in the world
  • Create complex enemy AI that can sense the world around it and attack the player
  • Design menus that will allow your players to load, pause, and quit the game
  • Deploy your game to multiple platforms and share it with the world

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Object Interaction with Blueprints
Creating a project and the first level
Adding objects to our level
Exploring materials
Creating our first Blueprint
Adding movement
Changing direction
Summary
Chapter 2: Enhancing Player Abilities
Adding the running functionality by extending a Blueprint
Animating a zoom view
Adding sound and particle effects
Summary
Chapter 3: Creating Screen UI Elements
Creating simple UI meters with UMG
Connecting UI values to player variables
Tracking the ammo and eliminated targets
Summary
Chapter 4: Creating Constraints and Gameplay Objectives
Constraining player actions
Creating collectable objects
Setting a gameplay win condition
Summary
Chapter 5: Making Moving Enemies with AI
Setting up the enemy actor to navigate
Creating navigation behavior
Making the AI chase the player
Summary
Chapter 6: Upgrading the AI Enemies
Creating an enemy attack
Making enemies hear and investigate sounds
Making the enemies destructible
Spawning more enemies during gameplay
Creating enemy wandering behavior
Summary
Chapter 7: Tracking Game States and Applying Finishing Touches
Making danger real with player death
Setting up a lose screen
Creating round-based scaling with saved games
Pausing the game and resetting the save file
Summary
Chapter 8: Building and Publishing
Optimizing your graphics settings
Setting up our game to be played by others
Steps for further learning
Summary

Book Details

ISBN 139781785286018
Paperback188 pages
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