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Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from   Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 Bring your game ideas to life using the new Unreal Engine 5 and C++

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803239866
Length 760 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gonçalo Marques Gonçalo Marques
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Devin Sherry Devin Sherry
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David Pereira David Pereira
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Hammad Fozi Hammad Fozi
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Unreal Engine 2. Chapter 2: Working with Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup 4. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Player Input 5. Chapter 5: Query with Line Traces 6. Chapter 6: Setting Up Collision Objects 7. Chapter 7: Working with UE5 Utilities 8. Chapter 8: Creating User Interfaces with UMG 9. Chapter 9: Adding Audio-Visual Elements 10. Chapter 10: Creating the SuperSideScroller Game 11. Chapter 11: Working with Blend Space 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines 12. Chapter 12: Animation Blending and Montages 13. Chapter 13: Creating and Adding the Enemy Artificial Intelligence 14. Chapter 14: Spawning the Player Projectile 15. Chapter 15: Exploring Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups 16. Chapter 16: Getting Started with Multiplayer Basics 17. Chapter 17: Using Remote Procedure Calls 18. Chapter 18: Using Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with UE5 Utilities

In the previous chapter, we learned about the remaining collision-related concepts in UE5, such as collision events, object types, physics simulation, and collision components. We learned how to have objects collide against one another, changing their responses to different collision channels, as well as how to create collision presets, spawn actors, and use timers.

In this chapter, we will look at several UE5 utilities that will allow you to easily move logic from one project to another and keep your project well-structured and organized, which will make life much easier for you in the long run and also make it easier for other people in your team to understand your work and modify it in the future. Game development is a tremendously hard task and is rarely done individually, but rather in teams, so it’s important to take these things into account when building your projects.

We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:

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