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Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting

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Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613931

Pages 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

ZHENYU GEORGE LI

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Getting Started with Unreal C++ Scripting

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Unreal C++ Game

3. Chapter 2: Editing C++ Code in Visual Studio

4. Chapter 3: Learning C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

5. Chapter 4: Investigating the Shooter Game’s Generated Project and C++ Code

6. Part 2 – C++ Scripting for Unreal Engine

7. Chapter 5: Learning How to Use UE Gameplay Framework Base Classes

8. Chapter 6: Creating Game Actors

9. Chapter 7: Controlling Characters

10. Chapter 8: Handling Collisions

11. Chapter 9: Improving C++ Code Quality

12. Part 3: Making a Complete Multiplayer Game

13. Chapter 10: Making Pangaea a Network Multiplayer Game

14. Chapter 11: Controlling the Game Flow

15. Chapter 12: Polishing and Packaging the Game

16. Index

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Summary

What you just learned in the chapter was ways of polishing the Pangaea game by importing new assets, fixing bugs, profiling to improve performance, and using console commands to manipulate and tune the game. You also followed instructional steps to configure the packaging settings and generated a Windows executable game for distribution. The last section of this book also provided my suggestions for your further learning based on the knowledge and skill set you gained from this book.

I hope this book can help to accelerate your learning experience and be the starting point for your Unreal Engine C++ game development career. I wish you all the best with your future professional game development career and I hope you make your dream games come true!

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Authors (1)

ZHENYU GEORGE LI

Zhenyu George Li is a passionate video game developer with 20+ years of experience. He has contributed significantly to many games and serves as a senior development consultant at Unity. His early immersion in technologies like C/C++, DirectX, OpenGL, and Windows GUI laid the foundation for his success. Notable titles in his portfolio include Magic Arena, Halo Infinity, Stela, Dead Rising 2, and The Bigs 2. He has gained extensive knowledge in programming, graphics, animation, gameplay, AI, multiplayer, and UI using Unreal and Unity engines. Additionally, he has taught UE at Vancouver Film School and has college teaching experience at College of Interactive Arts and Hefei Union University.

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