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Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from   Game Development Patterns with Unreal Engine 5 Build maintainable and scalable systems with C++ and Blueprint

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243252
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Butler Stuart Butler
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Tom Oliver Tom Oliver
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Learning from Unreal Engine 5
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Unreal Engine 5 and its Layers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: “Hello Patterns” 4. Chapter 3: UE5 Patterns in Action – Double Buffer, Flyweight, and Spatial Partitioning 5. Chapter 4: Premade Patterns in UE5 – Component, Update Method, and Behavior Tree 6. Part 2: Anonymous Modular Design
7. Chapter 5: Forgetting Tick 8. Chapter 6: Clean Communication – Interface and Event Observer Patterns 9. Chapter 7: A Perfectly Decoupled System 10. Part 3: Building on Top of Unreal
11. Chapter 8: Building Design Patterns – Singleton, Command, and State 12. Chapter 9: Structuring Code with Behavioral Patterns – Template, Subclass Sandbox, and Type Object 13. Chapter 10: Optimization through Patterns 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Premade Patterns in UE5 – Component, Update Method, and Behavior Tree

This chapter will focus on the three main patterns widely used in game development that Unreal Engine 5 offers robust support and tools for, including pre-built implementations and editors – namely the component, update method, and behavior tree patterns. We will discuss the theory of why they exist and explore how you can implement them with guided exercises in our custom framework.

Understanding the tools at your disposal will improve your development speed, saving you from reinventing the proverbial wheel. Even if these are tools you are familiar with in Blueprint, some insight into the C++ workings will hopefully improve your effectiveness wherever you use them.

In this chapter, we’ll be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding and creating components
  • Applying the update method for prototyping gameplay
  • Working with behavior trees
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