- Learning Unreal Engine Game Development
- Table of Contents
- Learning Unreal Engine Game Development
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. An Overview of Unreal Engine
- 2. Creating Your First Level
- Exploring preconfigured levels
- Creating a new project
- Navigating the viewport
- Creating a level from a new blank map
- Creating the ground using the BSP Box brush
- Adding light to a level
- Adding the sky to a level
- Adding Player Start
- Viewing a level that's been created
- Saving a level
- Configuring a map as a start level
- Adding material to the ground
- Adding a wall
- Duplicating a wall
- Creating an opening for a door
- Adding materials to the walls
- Sealing a room
- Adding props or a static mesh to the room
- Adding Lightmass Importance Volume
- Applying finishing touches to a room
- Summary
- 3. Game Objects – More and Move
- 4. Material and Light
- Materials
- The Material Editor
- Rendering pipeline
- Shaders
- APIs – DirectX and OpenGL
- Lights
- Configuring a Point Light with more settings
- Adding and configuring a Spot Light
- Using the IES Profile
- Adding and configuring a Directional Light
- Static, stationary, or movable lights
- Exercise – extending your game level (optional)
- Useful tips
- Guidelines
- Area expansion
- Creating windows and doors
- Creating basic furniture
- 5. Animation and AI
- What is animation?
- Understanding how to animate a 3D model
- What Unreal Engine 4 offers for animation in games
- Artificial intelligence
- Understanding a Behavior Tree
- Exercise – designing the logic of a Behavior Tree
- Example – creating a simple Behavior Tree
- How to implement a Behavior Tree in Unreal Engine 4
- Navigation Mesh
- Tutorial – setting up AI logic
- Creating the Blueprint AIController
- Creating the Blueprint character
- Adding and configuring Mesh to a Character Blueprint
- Linking AIController to the Character Blueprint
- Adding basic animation
- Configuring AIController
- Adjusting movement speed
- Creating the BlackBoardData
- Creating a Behavior Tree
- Creating a simple BT using a Wait task
- Using the Behavior Tree
- Creating a custom task for the Behavior Tree
- Using the PickTargetLocation custom task in BT
- Replacing the Wait task with Move To
- Implementing AI in games
- Summary
- 6. A Particle System and Sound
- What is a particle system?
- Exploring an existing particle system
- The main components of a particle system
- The design principles of a particle system
- Example – creating a fireplace particle system
- Sound and music
- How do we produce sound and music for games?
- Audio quality
- How are sounds recorded?
- The Unreal audio system
- Getting audio into Unreal
- Unreal sound formats and terminologies
- The Sound Cue Editor
- Exercise – importing a sound into the Unreal Editor
- Exercise – adding custom sounds to a level
- Configuring the Sound Cue Editor
- Summary
- 7. Terrain and Cinematics
- Index
Now that we have created the ground, let us make the ground look more realistic by applying a material to it.
Go to Content Browser | Content | StarterContent | Materials. Type wood into the Filters box. The following screenshot shows the walnut polished material that we want to use for the ground's material:
Click, hold, and drag M_Wood_Floor_Walnut_Polished into the viewport area and drop it on the top surface of the ground. The resulting effect should look like this:
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