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Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from   Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 Bring your game ideas to life using the new Unreal Engine 5 and C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239866
Length 760 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gonçalo Marques Gonçalo Marques
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Devin Sherry Devin Sherry
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Unreal Engine 2. Chapter 2: Working with Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup 4. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Player Input 5. Chapter 5: Query with Line Traces 6. Chapter 6: Setting Up Collision Objects 7. Chapter 7: Working with UE5 Utilities 8. Chapter 8: Creating User Interfaces with UMG 9. Chapter 9: Adding Audio-Visual Elements 10. Chapter 10: Creating the SuperSideScroller Game 11. Chapter 11: Working with Blend Space 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines 12. Chapter 12: Animation Blending and Montages 13. Chapter 13: Creating and Adding the Enemy Artificial Intelligence 14. Chapter 14: Spawning the Player Projectile 15. Chapter 15: Exploring Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups 16. Chapter 16: Getting Started with Multiplayer Basics 17. Chapter 17: Using Remote Procedure Calls 18. Chapter 18: Using Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extending the C++ class with Blueprints

As mentioned earlier, most developers extend the C++ code logic to blueprints to link this with the assets they will use. This is done to achieve easy asset assignment compared to finding and setting up the asset in code. Furthermore, it allows developers to use powerful blueprint features such as Timelines, Events, and ready-to-use macros, in combination with their C++ code, to achieve the maximum benefit of developing with both C++ and Blueprints.

So far, we have made a C++ Character class. In it, we have set up components and movement capabilities. Now, we want to specify the assets that are going to be used in our class, as well as add input and movement ability. For this, it is easier to extend with Blueprint and set up the options there. This is what we will be doing in the next exercise.

Exercise 3.02 – extending C++ with Blueprints

In this exercise, you will learn how to extend the C++ class you created with Blueprints...

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