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Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800209220
Pages 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (4):
Hammad Fozi Hammad Fozi
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Gonçalo Marques Gonçalo Marques
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David Pereira David Pereira
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Devin Sherry Devin Sherry
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface
1. Unreal Engine Introduction 2. Working with Unreal Engine 3. Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup 4. Player Input 5. Line Traces 6. Collision Objects 7. UE4 Utilities 8. User Interfaces 9. Audio-Visual Elements 10. Creating a SuperSideScroller Game 11. Blend Spaces 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines 12. Animation Blending and Montages 13. Enemy Artificial Intelligence 14. Spawning the Player Projectile 15. Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups 16. Multiplayer Basics 17. Remote Procedure Calls 18. Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we had a high-level look at animation and the development of the game design for your SuperSideScroller project. You were provided with just the beginning steps in the development of the project itself. You also prepared the player' characters' animation blueprint, character blueprint, and imported all of the required skeletal and animation assets.

At this point, the character can move around the level, but is stuck in the T-Pose and does not animate at all. This can be fixed by creating a new Blend Space for the player character, which will be done in the very first exercise of this chapter. Once the Blend Space is complete, you will implement this in the character animation blueprint in order for the character to animate while moving.

In this chapter, you will be working with many new functions, asset types, and variables in order to achieve the desired movement of the player character. Some of these include the Try Get Pawn...

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