Mastering Game Development with Unreal Engine 4（Second Edition）

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Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Mastering Game Development with Unreal Engine 4 Second Edition

Dedication

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Making a C++ Project for a First-person Shooter

Introduction

Technical requirements

Building the FPS C++ project

Installing and building UE4

Running the editor and picking a template

Building and running the game project

Modifying our game with C++

Overriding the character class

Editing our class in VS and hot-reloading the editor

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Inventory and Weapons for the Player

Introduction

Technical requirements

Adding the Weapon and Inventory classes

Creating our Weapon class

Converting the existing gun

Creating an inventory and adding a default gun

Adding a WeaponPickup class

Creating a new actor class

Setting up our blueprints

Back to code to finish up

Putting our inventory to use

Adding controls to cycle weapons

Adding swapping of weapons to our character

Bringing it all together

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Blueprint Review and When to Use BP Scripting

Introduction

Technical requirements

Blueprint review and Blueprint-only games

Blueprint overview

Blueprint-only games – is this right for you?

Blueprint scripting and performance

Blueprint scripting example – moving platform and elevator

Blueprint tips tricks and performance hits

Summary

Questions

Further reading

U.I. Necessities Menus HUD and Load/Save

Introduction

Technical requirements

Integrating UMG into our player's HUD class

Building icons for the inventory with screen captures

Using UMG to display inventory icons on screen

Synchronizing your inventory and HUD

Using UMG and game save slots

Creating a widget for save slots

Creating a save game file

Save and load from our menu

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Adding Enemies!

Introduction

Technical requirements

Creating an AI controller and a basic brain

Proving out the basics

Adding C++ decision making to the behavior tree

Attacking the player

More polished combat – spawn points hit reactions and dying

Spawn points for enemy placement

Hit reactions and dying

Notes on load/save

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Changing Levels Streaming and Retaining Data

Introduction

Technical requirements

Traditional level loading

The basics

Using load/save to transition

Perchance to stream?

Streaming advantages and disadvantages