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

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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

You will need a good computer that can run a PCG framework plugin and to install the following hardware and software to complete this chapter:

Use the latest operating system, either Windows 10 or Windows 11
Please note that this book is intended exclusively for Windows users and does not offer support for macOS.
A GPU (an NVIDIA RTX or AMD Radeon RX with 8+ GB VRAM) and at least 16 GB RAM. For more information, visit the official Epic Games website: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/hardware-and-software-specifications-for-unreal-engine?application_version=5.4.
You will need to install the latest version of Unreal Engine 5.4 because this book is based on that version. For detailed instructions on how to install Unreal Engine 5.4, please visit https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/installing-unreal-engine. The reason for this requirement is that the latest PCG framework includes new nodes, and some...