You're reading from Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting Become a professional game developer and create fully functional, high-quality games

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613931

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

ZHENYU GEORGE LI

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Getting Started with Unreal C++ Scripting

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Unreal C++ Game FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Editing C++ Code in Visual Studio

4. Chapter 3: Learning C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

5. Chapter 4: Investigating the Shooter Game’s Generated Project and C++ Code

6. Part 2 – C++ Scripting for Unreal Engine

7. Chapter 5: Learning How to Use UE Gameplay Framework Base Classes

8. Chapter 6: Creating Game Actors

9. Chapter 7: Controlling Characters

10. Chapter 8: Handling Collisions

11. Chapter 9: Improving C++ Code Quality

12. Part 3: Making a Complete Multiplayer Game

13. Chapter 10: Making Pangaea a Network Multiplayer Game

14. Chapter 11: Controlling the Game Flow

15. Chapter 12: Polishing and Packaging the Game

16. Index

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Summary

In this chapter, you mainly learned how to improve the quality of the code in the Pangaea project, as well as how to output debug messages to monitor real-time game information.

Firstly, we introduced the concepts of code refactoring and code refinement, which made you aware of the importance of regular code quality improvement.

After that, we analyzed the Pangaea source code and identified two main issues that could be overcome: the redundant two animation instance classes of UPlayerAnimInstance and UEnemyAnimInstance and the duplicated member variables and functions of APlayerAvatar and AEnemy.

To resolve the first issue, you added a new class, UPangaeaAnimInstance, to replace the existing UPlayerAnimInstance and UEnemyAnimInstance classes. To resolve the second issue, you made the APangaeaCharacter class the parent class of APlayerAvatar and AEnemy, so that the duplicated variables and functions could be moved into the parent class.

Then, improving the code performance...