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Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Quick Start Guide Programming professional 3D games with Unreal Engine 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950687
Length 202 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The Profiler

By using the Profiler, we can create a recording of the game's performance as it's running, and then take a look at the stats to see how long it's taking our code to run.

To test this, we're going to need to purposely make some terrible code:

  1. Open the ThirdPersonCharacter Blueprint
  2. In the Event Graph, create the Tick event
  3. Create a ForLoop and connect it to the Tick event
  4. In the ForLoop, set the Last Index to 10000
  5. Create a new integer variable and name it TestInt
  6. Create a SET variable for TestInt and connect it to the Loop Body and Index outputs of the ForLoop

The code should look like this:

This is some horribly unoptimized code—and is perfect for our needs. Let's create the profile for our game.

Under the Play button's drop-down menu, make sure that the Number of Players is set to 1 if it was still set to 2 for our multiplayer...

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