Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook电子书

Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

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

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface

Introduction

Installing UE4 and folder structure

How to do it…

There's more…

UI overview

Getting ready

How to do it…

Navigating the viewport

How to do it…

The Content Browser overview

Getting ready

How to do it…

Importing your own content

Getting ready

How to do it…

2. Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing

Introduction

Building a room

Getting ready

How to do it…

Building out a level

Getting ready

Some keyboard tips

Seeing double – duplicating elements

How to do it…

Applying materials to geometry brushes

Getting ready

How to do it…

Converting brushes to static meshes or volumes

Getting ready

How to do it…

3. Creating Quality Interior Environments

Introduction

Placing static meshes

Getting ready

How to do it…

Placing a particle system

Getting ready

How to do it…

Using Groups

Getting ready

How to do it…

Meshing an example map

Getting ready

How to do it…

Adding life to static meshes

Getting ready

How to do it…

4. Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments

Introduction

Creating a landscape

Getting ready

How to do it…

Building an exterior level using the Sculpt mode

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating rivers with the Flatten tool

Getting ready

How to do it…

Placing trees and rocks using the Foliage tool

Getting ready

How to do it…

Streaming levels

Getting ready

How to do it…

5. Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics

Introduction

An introduction to Matinee

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating an opening cutscene

Getting ready

How to do it…

Playing a Matinee via Blueprints

Getting ready

How to do it…

Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

6. Lighting and Shadows

Introduction

Lighting overview – learning the types of lights

Getting ready

How to do it…

Adding moveable lights – flashlight, part 1

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating a Day/Night cycle

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

7. Art Pipeline – Working with Materials

Introduction

Creating a custom material

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating a mirror material

Getting ready

How to do it…

Using Textures and normal maps with Materials

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating glowing materials with static emissive lighting

Getting ready

How to do it…

Seeing through walls

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

8. Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects

Introduction

Building a flickering light

Getting ready

How to do it…

Converting from Level to Class Blueprints

Getting ready

How to do it…

Using Trigger Volumes – opening a door using Matinee

Getting ready

How to do it…

Adding to an existing Blueprint – flashlight, part 2

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating a Health/Damage system, part 1 – taking damage

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

9. C++ Programming – Gameplay

Introduction

When to use C++/Blueprints

Setting up your development environment

Getting ready

How to do it…

Displaying text during runtime

Getting ready

How to do it…

Networking 101 – creating collectables with networking

Getting ready

How to do it…

Saving or loading games and keyboard input with C++

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating custom blueprint nodes

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

10. User Interface

Introduction

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

Getting ready

How to do it…

Dynamic enemy healthbars

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating a main menu

How to do it…

Animating a menu

Getting ready

How to do it…

See also

11. Publishing and Deployment

Introduction

Packaging your project

Getting ready

How to do it…

Creating an installer for Windows

Getting ready

How to do it…

Index