You're reading from Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 Unleash the true power of Blueprints to create impressive games and applications in UE5

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811583

Length 568 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Scripting

Authors (2):

Brenden Sewell

Marcos Romero

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Blueprint Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Blueprint Editor

3. Chapter 2: Programming with Blueprints

4. Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming and the Gameplay Framework

5. Chapter 4: Understanding Blueprint Communication

6. Part 2: Developing a Game

7. Chapter 5: Object Interaction with Blueprints

8. Chapter 6: Enhancing Player Abilities

9. Chapter 7: Creating Screen UI Elements

10. Chapter 8: Creating Constraints and Gameplay Objectives

11. Part 3: Enhancing the Game

12. Chapter 9: Building Smart Enemies with Artificial Intelligence

13. Chapter 10: Upgrading the AI Enemies

14. Chapter 11: Game States and Applying the Finishing Touches

15. Chapter 12: Building and Publishing

16. Part 4: Advanced Blueprints

17. Chapter 13: Data Structures and Flow Control

18. Chapter 14: Math and Trace Nodes

19. Chapter 15: Blueprints Tips

20. Chapter 16: Introduction to VR Development

21. Part 5: Extra Tools

22. Chapter 17: Animation Blueprints

23. Chapter 18: Creating Blueprint Libraries and Components

24. Chapter 19: Procedural Generation

25. Chapter 20: Creating a Product Configurator Using the Variant Manager

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Build configurations and packaging settings

In this section, we will see some of the settings available for build and packaging.

The Platforms submenu has the Packaging Settings option, which displays the Project - Packaging page with configuration options that can be modified.

Figure 12.8 – Project - Packaging page

The PACKAGING category contains a lot of technical options that can be used to optimize the packaging. The Build Configuration option defines how the build will be done. In Blueprint-only projects, you have two options: Development and Shipping. Development builds contain information that is used in debugging to help you find errors. Shipping builds are cleaner as they do not have debug information and should be used to create the final version of the game that will be distributed.

The Staging Directory property is used to define the folder where the packaged build will be stored. The For Distribution option is required when submitting...

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