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Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

You're reading from Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials Master the basics of Unreal Engine 4 to build stunning video games

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784391966

Length 266 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Satheesh P.V

Satheesh PV

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4 FREE CHAPTER

2. Importing Assets

3. Materials

4. Post Process

5. Lights

6. Blueprints

7. Matinee

8. Unreal Motion Graphics

9. Particles

10. Introduction to Unreal C++

11. Packaging Project

Index

Material user interface

Now that we know what a Material is and what it does, let's take a look at the user interface of Material graph.

Material user interface

Toolbar

The Toolbar panel contains various buttons that help to preview graph nodes, remove isolated nodes, Material stats, and so on. Let's take a look at what these buttons do:

Save: Applies the changes you made to the Material and saves the asset
Find in CB: Navigates and selects this Material in Content Browser
Apply: Applies the changes to the Material. Note that this will not save the Material
Search: Searches for Material expressions or comments
Home: Navigates to and selects the main canvas node
Clean Up: Removes unconnected nodes
Connectors: Shows or hides unconnected pins
Live Preview: Toggles a real-time update of preview material
Live Nodes: Toggles a real-time update of graph nodes
Live Update: Recompiles a shader for every node in the graph
Stats: Toggles Material stats and compilation errors
Mobile Stats: Same as stats but for mobile

Live nodes...

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Authors (2)

Satheesh P.V

Satheesh P.V

Satheesh PV is a game programmer living in Mumbai, India. He was selected by Epic Games as one of the closed beta testers for Unreal Engine 4 before its public release. He started his career as a game developer in 2012 by making a first person multiplayer game with his brother and close friend using Unreal Development Kit. He also created Unreal X-Editor, which was an IDE developed for UnrealScript, the native scripting language of Unreal Engine 3. He is also a moderator at Unreal Engine forums as well as a spotlight member and engine contributor.

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PV

PV

Satheesh PV is a game programmer living in Mumbai, India. He was selected by Epic Games as one of the closed beta testers for Unreal Engine 4 before its public release. He started his career as a game developer in 2012 by making a first person multiplayer game with his brother and close friend using Unreal Development Kit. He also created Unreal X-Editor, which was an IDE developed for UnrealScript, the native scripting language of Unreal Engine 3. He is also a moderator at Unreal Engine forums as well as a spotlight member and engine contributor.

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