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

Publisher Packt

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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Setting up the PCG Biome plugin

The PCG Biome plugin is a separate extension that comes with the latest version of Unreal Engine 5.4 and it helps users to create a foliage distribution across the landscape much faster! For this reason, let’s enable this plugin in our project:

At the top of your window, go to Edit|Plugins. In the Plugins window, search for the PCG Biome Core plugin. It will ask you to restart your project, so click Restart!

Figure 8.5 – Enable the PCG Biome Core plugin

We will use one of the PCG assets to work with this example, which we will find inside the Biome plugin folder. First, let’s reveal the Plugin Content and Engine Content inside the project. Click on the Settings button and enable the Plugin Content and Engine Content folders.