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Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook Over 40 recipes to accelerate the process of learning game design and solving development problems using Unreal Engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398163
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John P. Doran John P. Doran
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Acquainted with the UE4 Interface 2. Level Design – Building Out Levels or Greyboxing FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Quality Interior Environments 4. Building the Great Outdoors – Exterior Environments 5. Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics 6. Lighting and Shadows 7. Art Pipeline – Working with Materials 8. Blueprint Scripting – Level Effects 9. C++ Programming – Gameplay 10. User Interface 11. Publishing and Deployment Index

Building out a level

When I started using Unreal Engine, it took me a long time in order to create any type of new level. I would keep placing static meshes to hide areas of geometry that I missed or added in blocking volumes to make it actually possible to go through certain places. One of the key reasons I had problems with this, is because I didn't know how to create a good workflow and the key to mapping things very easily by using brushes in the Geometry Editing mode.

Getting ready

Minimize the Perspective viewport by clicking on the button in the top-right corner of the viewport (circled in the following image):

Getting ready

You will then see four windows and notice a grid of sorts in all the other viewports.

Getting ready

Tip

You can click on the same button in the top-right corner of any of the four windows to maximize it.

When in a different viewport, controls work a bit differently. Most importantly, right-clicking and dragging will pan the camera. For more information on the differences, refer to https...

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