Game Development with Unreal Engine 5: Learn the Basics of Game Development in Unreal Engine 5

by Cliff Sharif, Mitchell Lynn

Length: 318 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: BPB Publications
Publication Date: 2022-12-23
ISBN-10: 9355513445
ISBN-13: 9789355513441
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

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Develop Your Own Game Using Unreal Engine 5

Key Features

Learn how to use compatible engine templates for developing custom scenarios.
Make a simple third-person game using the core features of Unreal Engine 5.
Get familiar with the advanced concepts such as Game Objects and Audio Engine.

Description

Unreal Engine 5 is the latest game development engine released by Epic Games. This book is a learning path for beginners and professionals who want to use Unreal Engine 5 for game development.

This book starts with the basic setup of Unreal Engine 5 and shows how to create fundamental objects of a game. After a quick review of mathematics used in game design, the book helps you to explore and work with Unreal Editor, the main environment for debugging and developing an app. It then explains how to develop a third-person game and customise game objects within the game. Furthermore, it will help you learn how to use data structures, implement event and event dispatchers, and user interfaces, and handle users’ input data. Towards the end, you will learn how to interact with the game objects and develop audio and shaders in the game.

By the end of this book, you will be able to develop your own games using Unreal Engine 5.

What you will learn

Learn how to make Meta sounds in Unreal Engine 5.
Work with an advanced level of programming blueprints which is ‘Event Handling’ and ‘Interface’.
Understand how data-driven animation works in Unreal Engine 5.
Get familiar with the advanced aspects of Game Objects, including more components with their own functionalities/events.
Use the Unreal Engine 5 audio engine and develop audio code for the game.

Who this book is for

If you are a beginner and want to develop your first game using Unreal Engine, then this book is for you. It is also for game developers who use Unity as the main game engine and now would like to switch to Unreal Engine 5.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
About the Authors
Preface
Errata
Table of Contents
1. What is Unreal Engine?
    Structure
    Objectives
    History of Unreal Engine
    Installing Epic Games Launcher
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key term
2. Math for Game Design
    Structure
    Objectives
    Basic mathematics
        Boolean operator AND
        Boolean operator OR
        Boolean operator XOR
        Boolean operator NOT
    Using mathematics in programming game
        Vector
            Vector operator add
            Vector operator subtract
            Vector operators multiply and divide by scalar
            Vector operator Dot Product
    Mathematical functions
        Math function: power
        Math function: Pi
        Math function: ABS
        Math function: floor
        Math function: cell
        Math function: clamp
        Math functions: sine and cosine
        Math function: distance
        Math function: normalized vectors
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key term
3. Editor Basics and Epic Launcher
    Structure
    Objectives
    Epic Launcher layout
        Home
        Store
        Library
        Unreal Engine
        Marketplace
            Library
        Project Browser
    Editor layout
        Standard layout
        Editing the layout
        Layout menu
    Common hotkeys
    Important menu/window locations
        File tab
        Edit tab
        Window tab
            Level editor
            Logs
            Experimental
            Layout
        Tools tab
        Build tab
        Help tab
    Project settings
    Plugins
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
4. Using Blueprints
    Structure
    Objectives
    What is a blueprint?
    Design with blueprint
    Blueprint components
    Adding mesh to blueprint
    Adding physics
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
5. Project Templates and User Interaction
    Structure
    Objectives
    Using Templates in Unreal Engine 5
        Adding user interaction to blueprint
    Developing code in Blueprint
        Simple collision detection
    Making simple game assets
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
6. Game Objects and Materials
    Structure
    Objectives
    Game objects
        Classes
        Inheritance
        Variables
        Components
        Transforms
    Events
        Construction script
        Beginplay
        Tick
        Endplay
        Custom Events
    Material Editor
        Material nodes
        Material instances
    Material data
        Material Parameter Collections
        Dynamic Materials
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
7. Simple Data
    Structure
    Objectives
    Variables in blueprint
        Integers (Ints)
            Integer 64
            Floats
            Doubles
        Booleans (Bools)
        Strings
            Name
            Text
        Vector
        Rotator
        Pin splitting
        Conversions
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
8. Interface and Event Handling
    Structure
    Objectives
    What is the event in Unreal Engine 5?
    Using event dispatchers
    Using interface
        Line Trace in blueprint
            Casting in blueprint
        Interface implementation in blueprint
    Using physics (advanced)
        Using physical gravity
        Add physical force with impulse
        Make physical behavior as material
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answer
    Questions
    Key terms
9. Data Processing (Enum, Struct, Map, Data Tables) and Animation Instances
    Structure
    Objectives
    Object-based variables
    Enumerators (Enums)
        Bytes
        Enumerator editor
    Structures (structs)
        Structure editor
        Nested structs
    Arrays
        Get
        Remove
        Add
        Set Array Element
        Clear
        Length
    Maps
        Get keys and values
        Find
        Length
        Clear
        Contains
        Is Empty and Is Not Empty
    Data tables
        Data table editor
        CSV/JSON export
        Data Table usage in blueprint
            Does the data table row exist?
            Get data table column as string
            Get data table row names
            Get data table row
    Animation instances
        Animation instance nodes
            Get Anim Instance
            Has valid animation instance
            Play
            Stop
            Set animation
            Set position
            Get position
            Is Playing
            Play animation
            Set Play Rate
            Get Play Rate
            Set animation mode
            Get animation mode
            Override animation data
        Animation modes
    Multi-variable type operators
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
10. Game Objects (Advanced) and Serialization
    Structure
    Objectives
    Class defaults
    Class settings
        Changing inheritance
        Interfaces
            Setup
            Returns
            Usage
    Tick settings
    Replication settings
    Serialization
        Save game objects
        User settings
            Scalability
            Input
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
11. Audio and Particles
    Structure
    Objectives
    Using Niagara
        Making Niagara emitter
        Making Niagara system
    Using audio
        Making MetaSound
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice questions
        Answers
    Questions
    Key terms
12. Packaging
    Structure
    Objectives
    Platforms and licensing
    Plugins
    Conclusion
    Points to remember
    Multiple choice question
        Answer
    Questions
    Key terms
Index