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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
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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

Blueprint Function Libraries

In UE4, there's a class called BlueprintFunctionLibary, which is meant to contain a collection of static functions that don't really belong to any specific actor and can be used in multiple parts of your project.

For instance, some of the objects that we used previously, such as the GameplayStatics object and Kismet libraries such as KismetMathLibrary and KismetSystemLibrary, are Blueprint Function Libraries. These contain functions that can be used in any part of your project.

There is at least one function in our project created by us that can be moved to a Blueprint Function library: the CanSeeActor function defined in the EnemyCharacter class.

Let's then, in the first exercise of this chapter, create our own Blueprint Function library, so that we can then move the CanSeeActor function from the EnemyCharacter class to the Blueprint Function library class.

Exercise 7.01: Moving the CanSeeActor Function to the Blueprint Function...

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