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Unreal Engine 4 Shaders and Effects Cookbook

You're reading from Unreal Engine 4 Shaders and Effects Cookbook Over 70 recipes for mastering post-processing effects and advanced shading techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789538540

Length 524 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Brais Brenlla Ramos

John P. Doran

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Physically Based Rendering FREE CHAPTER

2. Post-Processing Effects

3. Opaque Materials and Texture Mapping

4. Translucent Materials and More

5. Beyond Traditional Material Uses

6. Advanced Material Techniques

7. Using Material Instances

8. Mobile Shaders and Material Optimization

9. Some Extra Useful Nodes

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine Francesco Sapio

ISBN: 9781788835657

Get an in-depth knowledge about all the AI Systems within Unreal Engine
Create complex AIs, understanding the art of designing and developing Behavior Tree
Learn how to perform Environmental Queries (EQS)
Master the Navigation, Perception, and Crowd Systems
Profile and Visualize the AI Systems with powerful debugging tools
Extend every AI and Debug system with custom nodes and functions

Unreal Engine 4 Virtual Reality Projects Kevin Mack

ISBN: 9781789132878

Understand design principles and concepts for building VR applications
Set up your development environment with Unreal Blueprints and C++
Create a player character with several locomotion schemes
Evaluate and solve performance problems in VR to maintain high frame rates
Display mono and stereo videos in VR
Extend Unreal Engine's capabilities using various plugins

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Authors (2)

Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos

Brais Brenlla Ramos is a passionate Architect, 3D artist, Unreal Engine 4 developer and first-time author based between A Corua and his place of work in London, UK. His passion for all things 3D-related dates back to when he was playing games as a child, experiences that fuelled his later studies in architecture and computer animation. His entrance into the professional 3D world happened at the same time as his studies were finishing, with initial projects undertaken in the field of architectural visualization for different studios. Since then, he's worked on many different 3D modeling and app development projects, first as a team member, and later as the Unreal Engine 4 lead developer at a company called AccuCities, based in London.

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John P. Doran

John P. Doran

John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.

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