Developing and Optimizing the Procedural Content Generation Tool

In Chapter 3, you reached a crucial milestone in the development of the procedural content generation (PCG) tool by mastering the creation of your own PCG Blueprint. This expertise marks a significant advancement in customizing and enhancing your tool, particularly when the existing PCG library lacks nodes that meet your specific needs.

This chapter will build upon the foundations laid in the previous one but with a focus on the Actor Blueprint and on refining your PCG Actor Blueprint by enhancing the PCG graph with additional nodes. This progression will enable you to tailor and optimize your PCG tool more effectively to your requirements. We will start by introducing additional variables within the Actor Blueprint, which will be essential for the PCG graph later in this chapter.

At the outset, you will focus on enhancing your existing PCG graph, introducing new features and capabilities to the tool in tandem with...