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Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from   Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5 Build maintainable and scalable systems with C++ and Blueprint

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243252
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Butler Stuart Butler
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Tom Oliver Tom Oliver
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

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 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

A Perfectly Decoupled System

In the previous chapter, we learned about interfaces and event delegates and how they can be used as tools to remove the need for unnecessary object references within our program structures. This was the concept of decoupling.

In this chapter, we will take the concept of decoupling and extrapolate it throughout our system design. We will look at a structure that should provide a robust framework for any system and the standard method for planning it.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following main topics:

  • Using UML to plan a sample hierarchy
  • Decoupling the reference train

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to architect complex game communication hierarchies in a fully decoupled and modular way. This will allow you to build more maintainable and expandable systems that enable development team cohesion.

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