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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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Creating and Adding the Enemy Artificial Intelligence

In the previous chapter, you added layered animations for the player character using animation blending with a combination of Anim Slots, Animation Blueprints, and blending functions such as Layered blend per bone. With this knowledge, you were able to smoothly blend the throwing animation montage with the base movement state machine to create layered animations for the character.

The primary focus of this chapter is to take the C++ enemy class you created in Chapter 12, Animation Blending and Montages, and bring this enemy to life using AI. UE5 uses many different tools to achieve AI, such as AI Controllers, Blackboards, and Behavior Trees, all of which you will learn about and use in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

How to use a Navigation Mesh to create a navigable space inside of the game world that the enemy can move in.
How to create an enemy AI pawn that can navigate between...

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