Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials: Master the basics of Unreal Engine 4 to build stunning video games

Satheesh P.V

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4 (8 Ratings)

eBook Feb 2016 266 pages 1st Edition

Satheesh P.V

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eBook Feb 2016 266 pages 1st Edition

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Get to grips with the user interface of Unreal Engine 4 and find out more about its various robust features
Create dream video games with the help of the different tools Unreal Engine 4 offers
Create video-games and fully utilize the power of Unreal Engine 4 to bring games to life through this step-by-step guide

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Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of game development tools that gives you power to develop your game and seamlessly deploy it to iOS and Android devices. It can be used for the development of simple 2D games or even stunning high-end visuals. Unreal Engine features a high degree of portability and is a tool used by many game developers today. This book will introduce you to the most popular game development tool called Unreal Engine 4 with hands-on instructions for building stunning video games. You will begin by creating a new project or prototype by learning the essentials of Unreal Engine by getting familiar with the UI and Content Browser. Next, we'll import a sample asset from Autodesk 3ds max and learn more about Material Editor. After that we will learn more about Post Process. From there we will continue to learn more about Blueprints, Lights, UMG, C++ and more.

Who is this book for?

If you have a basic understanding of working on a 3D environment and you are interested in video game development, then this book is for you. A solid knowledge of C++ will come in handy.

What you will learn

Download both the binary and source version of Unreal Engine 4 and get familiar with the UI
Get to know more about the Material Editor and how it works
Add a post process to the scene and alter it to get a unique look for your scene
Acquaint yourself with the unique and exclusive feature of Unreal Engine 4—Blueprints
Find out more about Static and Dynamic lighting and the difference between various lights
Use Matinee to create cut scenes
Create a health bar for the player with the use of Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG)
Get familiar with Cascade Particle Editor

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Carles May 23, 2016

You are a novice game developer but don't know how to reach out professional skills? Don't worry, this is your lucky day if you are about to buy this book. Across the 11 chapters of the book, the author guides the reader in depth on all features and techniques for going to novice to pro into game development using Unreal Editor 4. The book covers from basic aspects as UE4 GUI, Material Editor or importing 3ds max assets, to advanced matters like Particles, HUD interfaces or developing your own C++ code.I don't recommend this book only either if you don't have any knowledge at all on the gaming development matter or have previous good knowledge of the Unreal Editor work-flow and develop only C++ code.In any other case scenario consider this your best book to became a good UE4 game developer.

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Nikhil Jul 31, 2020

This book is great for getting up to speed with unreal engine! :)

T.GRIFFIN May 06, 2016

Good starting information, not too much on input and asset creation, but still a quality starting guide.

Amazon Customer May 13, 2016

Awesome !!!

Hugo Apr 12, 2016

This book is good but not that basic, it will introduce you to the most essential aspects of unreal engine 4 but will go a little deep, you will see more than you expect, but the author has made a great job doing it the right way. I liked that this book really covers most of the features that I already know that Unreal have, but showed me much more and how to use it, I think that my abilities of unreal before reading this book was about 80%, I had already read another books of unreal but this have more global vision of unreal and show not only the basic features, now I think that I really now less than before, but now I understand what I need to focus on my learning usage, this engine is more sophisticated than the average other engines that I've already used in the past, but anyone who loves to develop games would think in make a AAA game, unreal is the best tool for any development team size, it has a lot of features, big community, open-source and free, there are much more pro's than con's in my opinion but to start using this could be really difficult and care a lot of time to achieve quality result, this book was like a personal teacher, I read more than one time and some chapters I think that I need to read more times, but I have to say that is really good, like a personal teacher, each chapter show in detail unreal engine features, this enable me to start doing things more professionally I think, the book covers the basics of installation or compiling the source to packaging the project to distribute your work. I would recommend to my friends game developers this book helped me and I think that even if you already work on unreal this book will teach you the powers of unreal in detail.

Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials: Master the basics of Unreal Engine 4 to build stunning video games

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