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Learning Unreal Engine Game Development

You're reading from   Learning Unreal Engine Game Development A step-by-step guide that paves the way for developing fantastic games with Unreal Engine 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784398156
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joanna Lee Joanna Lee
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Overview of Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Level 3. Game Objects – More and Move 4. Material and Light 5. Animation and AI 6. A Particle System and Sound 7. Terrain and Cinematics Index

Rendering pipeline

For an image to appear on the screen, the computer must draw the images on the screen to display it. The sequence of steps to create a 2D representation of a scene by using both 2D and 3D data information is known as the graphics or rendering pipeline. Computer hardware such as central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) are used to calculate and manipulate the input data needed for drawing the 3D scene.

As games are interactive and rely heavily on real-time rendering, the amount of data necessary for rendering moving scenes is huge. Coordinate position, color, and all display information needs to be calculated for each vertex of the triangle polygon and at the same time, taking into account the effect of overlapping polygons before they can be displayed on screen correctly. Hence, it is very crucial to optimize both the CPU and GPU capabilities to process this data and deliver them timely on the screen. Continuous improvement in this area has been...

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