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Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

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Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243252

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Blueprint

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Stuart Butler

Tom Oliver

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning from Unreal Engine 5

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Unreal Engine 5 and its Layers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: “Hello Patterns”

4. Chapter 3: UE5 Patterns in Action – Double Buffer, Flyweight, and Spatial Partitioning

5. Chapter 4: Premade Patterns in UE5 – Component, Update Method, and Behavior Tree

6. Part 2: Anonymous Modular Design

7. Chapter 5: Forgetting Tick

8. Chapter 6: Clean Communication – Interface and Event Observer Patterns

9. Chapter 7: A Perfectly Decoupled System

10. Part 3: Building on Top of Unreal

11. Chapter 8: Building Design Patterns – Singleton, Command, and State

12. Chapter 9: Structuring Code with Behavioral Patterns – Template, Subclass Sandbox, and Type Object

13. Chapter 10: Optimization through Patterns

14. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed the game development patterns that are present as premade tools and systems inside Unreal Engine. Namely, the component, update, and behavior tree patterns.

We made a Health component that will hopefully prove useful in your future projects, along with a simple behavior tree showing each major piece of the system. Armed with this knowledge, you should be able to make a functional AI system for any of your future Unreal projects.

The next chapter will take what we have learned about the update method and explain how we can do better. What is the impact of using Tick within the engine and how can you measure that impact?

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Authors (2)

Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler is an Unreal Engine Expert with over 13 years of experience in teaching Games Development in Higher Education. Stuart has published projects in a multitude of disciplines including Technical Design, Art, and Animation. Stuart is the Course Director for Games Technology at Staffordshire University, responsible for the programming team within the UK's largest Games Education Department. Stuart is also an Unreal Authorised Instructor and Educational Content Creator who works with Epic Games on developing learning materials for Unreal Engine 5. Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and a PgC in Higher and Professional Education.

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Tom Oliver

Tom Oliver

Tom Oliver is a game programmer with over 10 years of experience in working with game engines both commercially and in an educational capacity. He has used Unreal Engine for contract work both in and out of the games industry, creating systems for games to mixed reality training simulations. Tom is the Course Leader for the BSc (Hons) Computer Games Design and Programming program at Staffordshire University, responsible for maintaining the award winning structure and teaching of the course in the UK's largest Games Education Department. Tom holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Design and Programming and a PGc in Higher and Professional Education. Tom specialises in researching gameplay systems driven through mathematical phenomena.

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