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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

You're reading from   Learning Unreal Engine Game Development A step-by-step guide that paves the way for developing fantastic games with Unreal Engine 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784398156
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Overview of Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Level 3. Game Objects – More and Move 4. Material and Light 5. Animation and AI 6. A Particle System and Sound 7. Terrain and Cinematics Index

Adding Player Start


For every game, you need to set where the player will spawn. Go to Modes | Basic | Player Start. Click, hold, and drag Player Start into the viewport.

This screenshot shows the Modes window with Player Start:

Place Player Start in the center of the ground or slightly above it as shown in the following screenshot:

Deselect Player Start by pressing the Esc key. The light blue arrow from Player Start indicates the direction in which the player will spawn the game starts. To adjust the direction that the player faces upon spawning, rotate Player Start until the light blue arrow points in this direction. Take a look at the following tip on how to rotate an object.

Useful tip – rotating objects in a level

To rotate an object in a level, we use the Rotate tool to rotate objects around the x (row), y (pitch), and z (yaw) directions. Select the object and press the E key to display the Rotate tool. Three lines with a box tip will appear to extrude from the object. Click and hold the...

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