You're reading from Procedural Content Generation with Unreal Engine 5 Harness the PCG framework to take your environment design and art skills to the next level

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2024

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ISBN-13 9781801074469

Length 488 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Paul Martin Eliasz

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Procedural Content Generation

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Procedural Content Generation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Let’s Create Our First Forest!

4. Chapter 3: Building Blueprints with PCG Component

5. Chapter 4: Developing and Optimizing the Procedural Content Generation Tool

6. Part 2: Harnessing the Power of PCG in Unreal Engine 5

7. Chapter 5: Building Spline Controllers with PCG Graph

8. Chapter 6: Building a PCG Graph with Landscape Materials

9. Chapter 7: Let’s Build a Building Using the PCG Spline Controller

10. Chapter 8: Building Biomes: Mastering PCG for Rich Environments

11. Chapter 9: Creating Dynamic Animated Crowds with PCG

12. Part 3: Mastering Optimization and Elevating Your PCG Environments

13. Chapter 10: Exploring Optimization, Debugging, and Performance Tools

14. Chapter 11: Cheat Sheets, Extra Tips, and Shortcuts

15. Index

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Exploring Optimization, Debugging, and Performance Tools

It’s been a great and intensive journey throughout this entire book. We have now reached Chapter 10, which is primarily dedicated to performance optimization. This chapter will guide you on how to further enhance the fluidity of the PCG tool within your project.

We will take some time to discuss how to get your project off the ground using PCG and how to achieve an amazing PCG environment without encountering performance issues. We’ll walk through various examples and methods designed to improve project performance and provide essential solutions for working with assets that will be procedurally generated using your PCG tools.

In this chapter, we will use simple examples from the Plugin folder and discuss how to further optimize Megascan Quixel assets. This chapter will provide valuable insights into making assets work efficiently with any PCG tools.

In this chapter, we take a look at the following topics...

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