Editing and adding code

After opening Visual Studio, you will have the base code for the header file and the sources file of the character class we just created. This base code is not essential; you can edit it or remove the majority of it, but for our game's purposes we will keep it.

The header file will usually look like this by default:

As you can see, header files start with including the character header file from the Unreal Engine game framework, and then include the generated header of the newly created class we just made.

An Unreal Engine class should have the macro UCLASS above it, otherwise you will probably get a compiler error.

The class, by default, will include several public functions that are, in order:

• Constructor: This is necessary to hold any code that is used to build the class (or any blueprint based on that class) during edit time

• BeginPlay: The override of the virtual void BeginPlay class, which is going to be called once the game starts

• Tick: This is also an override...