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Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243252

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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C++

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Blueprint

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3D Game Development

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Stuart Butler

Tom Oliver

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning from Unreal Engine 5

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Unreal Engine 5 and its Layers FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: “Hello Patterns”

4. Chapter 3: UE5 Patterns in Action – Double Buffer, Flyweight, and Spatial Partitioning

5. Chapter 4: Premade Patterns in UE5 – Component, Update Method, and Behavior Tree

6. Part 2: Anonymous Modular Design

7. Chapter 5: Forgetting Tick

8. Chapter 6: Clean Communication – Interface and Event Observer Patterns

9. Chapter 7: A Perfectly Decoupled System

10. Part 3: Building on Top of Unreal

11. Chapter 8: Building Design Patterns – Singleton, Command, and State

12. Chapter 9: Structuring Code with Behavioral Patterns – Template, Subclass Sandbox, and Type Object

13. Chapter 10: Optimization through Patterns

14. Index

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Using UML to plan a sample hierarchy

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a tool that programmers use to visually communicate the structure of large systems during the design phase and when creating technical documentation. Classes are represented as boxes, with relationships shown through different types of arrows linking the boxes.

What are the types of class relations?

Let us take a look at different types of class relations and how they are presented using UML class diagrams.

Inheritance

Standard arrows, as seen in Figure 7.1, show inheritance with the parent being indicated by the end with the arrow head.

Figure 7.1 – An example of a UML class diagram showing inheritance syntax

In Figure 7.1, the Character and Vehicle classes inherit from the Pawn class.

Composition

Composition is a type of class relation where the composed classes give the parent class the functionality. This tool is seen a lot with multi-functional classes...

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Inheritance

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