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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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David Pereira David Pereira
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Hammad Fozi Hammad Fozi
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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

The Unreal Character class

Before we talk about the Unreal Character class, let’s briefly touch on the concept of inheritance. If you’re used to working with C++ or another similar language, you should already be familiar with this concept. Inheritance is the process whereby a class derives characteristics and behavior from another class. A C++ class can be extended to create a new class – a derived class – that retains properties of the base class and allows these properties to be modified or new characteristics to be added. An example of this is the Character class.

The Character class is a special type of pawn and is a descendant of the Unreal Pawn class. Extending upon the Pawn class, the Character class has some movement capabilities by default, along with some inputs that add movement to the character. As standard, the Character class gives users the ability to get a character to walk, run, jump, fly, and swim within the created world.

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