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Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from Elevating Game Experiences with Unreal Engine 5 Bring your game ideas to life using the new Unreal Engine 5 and C++

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239866

Length 760 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Design

Authors (4):

Gonçalo Marques

Devin Sherry

David Pereira

Hammad Fozi

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Unreal Engine

2. Chapter 2: Working with Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup

4. Chapter 4: Getting Started with Player Input

5. Chapter 5: Query with Line Traces

6. Chapter 6: Setting Up Collision Objects

7. Chapter 7: Working with UE5 Utilities

8. Chapter 8: Creating User Interfaces with UMG

9. Chapter 9: Adding Audio-Visual Elements

10. Chapter 10: Creating the SuperSideScroller Game

11. Chapter 11: Working with Blend Space 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines

12. Chapter 12: Animation Blending and Montages

13. Chapter 13: Creating and Adding the Enemy Artificial Intelligence

14. Chapter 14: Spawning the Player Projectile

15. Chapter 15: Exploring Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups

16. Chapter 16: Getting Started with Multiplayer Basics

17. Chapter 17: Using Remote Procedure Calls

18. Chapter 18: Using Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer

19. Index

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Understanding the Multiply node

Blueprints contain many more nodes that are not related to variables or functions. One such example is arithmetic nodes (that is, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and so on). If you search for Multiply in the Blueprint Actions menu, you’ll find the Multiply node:

Figure 1.40 – The multiply node

This node allows you to input two or more parameters, which can be of many types (for example, integer, float, vector, and so on; you can add more by clicking the + icon to the right of the Add pin text) and output the result of multiplying all of them. We will be using this node later, in this chapter’s activity.

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Authors (4)

Gonçalo Marques

Gonçalo Marques

Gonçalo Marques has been an active gamer since the age of 6. He has been using Unreal Engine since 2016 and has done freelance and consulting work using the engine. Gonçalo also released a free and open source plugin called UI Navigation, which has garnered an extremely positive reception with over 100,000 downloads and is still receiving frequent updates and fixes. Thanks to the development of this plugin, he became an Epic MegaGrant recipient. He is now working at Funcom ZPX, a game studio in Lisbon that has contributed to games such as Conan Exiles, Mutant Year Zero, and Moons of Madness. Gonçalo is currently working on a new Funcom game in the Dune universe.

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Hammad Fozi

Hammad Fozi

Hammad Fozi comes from a gaming background and has been extensively working on Unreal Engine since 2017. He has been part of some very successful AAA projects such as Virtua FanCave (and Metaverse), Unnamed AAA Sci-Fi DJ Experience, Heroes and Generals, and Creed: Rise to Glory VR. Hammad has worked with teams who have had experience working at Ubisoft, Warner Bros. Games, 2K Games, and more! He has successfully helped teams consisting of 10–30 people to scale to 150+ in size over his very short yet impressive career. Hammad currently works as a senior C++ game developer and has extensive experience in working with VR and augmented reality, PC/PS5/Xbox/Android/iOS/macOS game development, and Web3/Metaverse/NFT systems (within Unreal Engine).

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Devin Sherry

Devin Sherry

Devin Sherry is originally from Levittown, NY, located on Long Island. He studied the topics of Game Development and Game Design at the University of Advancing Technology where he had earned his Bachelor of Arts in Game Design in 2012. During his time in college, Devin worked as a game and level designer with a group of students called Autonomous Games on a real-time strategy styled, third-person shooter called The Afflicted using Unreal Engine 3/UDK where it was presented at GDC in 2013 at the GDC Play Showcase. Today, Devin works as an independent game developer located in Tempe, Arizona, where he works on personal and contracted projects. His achievements include the title Radial Impact, which can be found in the Community Contributions section of the Learn Tab of Unreal Engine 4's Launcher, and his work on his YouTube Channel, Devin Level Design, where he educates viewers on game development within Unreal Engine 3, UDK, and Unreal Engine 4.

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David Pereira

David Pereira

David Pereira started making games in 1998 when he learned how to use Clickteam's The Games Factory. He graduated in computer science from FCT-UNL, where he learned about C++, OpenGL, and DirectX, which allowed him to create more complex games. After working in IT consulting for a few years, he joined Miniclip in Portugal where he worked on popular mobile games such as 8 Ball Pool, Gravity Guy 1 and Gravity Guy 2, Extreme Skater, iStunt2, Hambo, and many others. Since then, he has been the lead developer for MPC in the John Lewis Christmas VR Experience, worked on an earlier version of Mortal Shell, and did volunteer work teaching people with Asperger's how to make games with Unreal Engine 4. Today, he's working on his own game, a soon-to-be-announced first-person action RPG.

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