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Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5

You're reading from   Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine 5 Unleash the true power of Blueprints to create impressive games and applications in UE5

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811583
Length 568 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Brenden Sewell Brenden Sewell
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Marcos Romero Marcos Romero
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Blueprint Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Exploring the Blueprint Editor 3. Chapter 2: Programming with Blueprints 4. Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming and the Gameplay Framework 5. Chapter 4: Understanding Blueprint Communication 6. Part 2: Developing a Game
7. Chapter 5: Object Interaction with Blueprints 8. Chapter 6: Enhancing Player Abilities 9. Chapter 7: Creating Screen UI Elements 10. Chapter 8: Creating Constraints and Gameplay Objectives 11. Part 3: Enhancing the Game
12. Chapter 9: Building Smart Enemies with Artificial Intelligence 13. Chapter 10: Upgrading the AI Enemies 14. Chapter 11: Game States and Applying the Finishing Touches 15. Chapter 12: Building and Publishing 16. Part 4: Advanced Blueprints
17. Chapter 13: Data Structures and Flow Control 18. Chapter 14: Math and Trace Nodes 19. Chapter 15: Blueprints Tips 20. Chapter 16: Introduction to VR Development 21. Part 5: Extra Tools
22. Chapter 17: Animation Blueprints 23. Chapter 18: Creating Blueprint Libraries and Components 24. Chapter 19: Procedural Generation 25. Chapter 20: Creating a Product Configurator Using the Variant Manager 26. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Making enemies hear and investigate sounds

Enemies that can only pursue players who walk directly in front of them can easily be avoided. To address this, we will take advantage of the PawnSensing component to have the enemy detect nearby sounds that the player makes. If the player makes a sound within the detection range of an enemy, then the enemy will walk to the location of that sound to investigate. If they catch the player in their sight, they will try to attack; otherwise, they will wait at the location of the sound for a moment before returning to their patrol.

Adding hearing to the Behavior Tree

We will add a sequence of tasks that occur when the enemy hears a sound. We want the enemy to continue attacking the player once they see them, so investigating a sound has a lower priority on the Behavior Tree.

To have the enemy investigate the point where it heard a sound, we will need to create two keys within the blackboard. The HasHeardSound key is of the Boolean type...

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