You're reading from Unreal Engine 5 Game Development with C++ Scripting Become a professional game developer and create fully functional, high-quality games

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613931

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

ZHENYU GEORGE LI

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Getting Started with Unreal C++ Scripting

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First Unreal C++ Game FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Editing C++ Code in Visual Studio

4. Chapter 3: Learning C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

5. Chapter 4: Investigating the Shooter Game’s Generated Project and C++ Code

6. Part 2 – C++ Scripting for Unreal Engine

7. Chapter 5: Learning How to Use UE Gameplay Framework Base Classes

8. Chapter 6: Creating Game Actors

9. Chapter 7: Controlling Characters

10. Chapter 8: Handling Collisions

11. Chapter 9: Improving C++ Code Quality

12. Part 3: Making a Complete Multiplayer Game

13. Chapter 10: Making Pangaea a Network Multiplayer Game

14. Chapter 11: Controlling the Game Flow

15. Chapter 12: Polishing and Packaging the Game

16. Index

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Walking through the VS IDE’s UI

VS is a powerful and complex tool set. This book only covers features and functionalities that you will need for learning C++ scripting. You can visit Microsoft’s official websites to learn more about VS in the future. Here are the links:

VS IDE documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/?view=vs-2022
Learn to code in VS: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/getting-started/

Once you have opened VS, you will see the IDE editor:

Figure 2.4 – VS IDE editor

Using Figure 2.4, let’s take a look at all the important elements present in the editor.

Code editor

The code editor on the left side is the place where you write your C++ code. You can open multiple source code files in the code editor. The opened filename tabs are displayed at the top of the editor. Figure 2.5 shows four source code files opened in the editor: MyShooterGameMode.cpp, MyShooterGameMode...