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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2024

Publisher Packt

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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Creating PCG graphs

In this exercise, you will develop several PCG graphs and link them to create a network chain culminating in a single main PCG graph. This activity is designed to highlight the importance of combining multiple PCG graphs in order to make it look more clean and less messy.

To begin our exercise, let’s use the PCG folder and add a few PCG graphs inside there.

Right-click on the content PCG folder space and create a new PCG graph. Duplicate the PCG graph and name the graphs individually: PCG_Foliage and PCG_Forest.

Figure 5.13 – Creating two PCG graphs – PCG_Foliage and PCG_Forest

We will go one by one, working on and testing each individually until both of them are ready to be combined into one PCG graph. Let’s get started with the first one: PCG_Foliage!