You're reading from Procedural Content Generation with Unreal Engine 5 Harness the PCG framework to take your environment design and art skills to the next level

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Published in Nov 2024

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ISBN-13 9781801074469

Length 488 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Paul Martin Eliasz

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Fundamentals of Procedural Content Generation

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Procedural Content Generation FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Let’s Create Our First Forest!

4. Chapter 3: Building Blueprints with PCG Component

5. Chapter 4: Developing and Optimizing the Procedural Content Generation Tool

6. Part 2: Harnessing the Power of PCG in Unreal Engine 5

7. Chapter 5: Building Spline Controllers with PCG Graph

8. Chapter 6: Building a PCG Graph with Landscape Materials

9. Chapter 7: Let’s Build a Building Using the PCG Spline Controller

10. Chapter 8: Building Biomes: Mastering PCG for Rich Environments

11. Chapter 9: Creating Dynamic Animated Crowds with PCG

12. Part 3: Mastering Optimization and Elevating Your PCG Environments

13. Chapter 10: Exploring Optimization, Debugging, and Performance Tools

14. Chapter 11: Cheat Sheets, Extra Tips, and Shortcuts

15. Index

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Technical requirements

You will need the following to complete this chapter:

A good computer that can run a PCG framework. Ideally, it should have a multi-core CPU (AMD Ryzen 7/9, Intel i7/i9), GPU (NVIDIA RTX, AMD Radeon RX with 8+ GB VRAM), and at least 16 GB RAM.
Basic knowledge of Blueprint creation in Unreal Engine 5. The chapter is designed to be accessible to those with even a fundamental understanding of blueprint development.
The template project comes without the assets and you will need to download the Marketplace. Make sure to download the Landscape Pro 2.0 Auto-Generated Material project files from the Unreal Marketplace. All of those assets are free of charge.

The Unreal Engine version used in this chapter is version 5.4. The PCG tool was introduced with Unreal Engine 5.2 but some nodes got deprecated in Unreal Engine 5.4, hence the latest version of Unreal Engine is the most beneficial for this chapter.

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