Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Quick Start Guide

Programming professional 3D games with Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 is a hugely popular game development framework. This book is a practical guide, and starts off by quickly introducing you to the Unreal Engine ecosystem. You will become familiar with its core systems and by the end of the book will have a solid knowledge base from which to get started building games.

Learn how to use Unreal Engine 4 by building 3D and multiplayer games using Blueprints

• Learn the fundamentals of Unreal Engine such as project templates, Blueprints, and C++
• Learn to design games; use UMG to create menus and HUDs, and replication to create multiplayer games
• Build dynamic game elements using Animation Blueprints and Behavior Trees

Unreal Engine is a popular game engine for developers to build high-end 2D and 3D games.

This book is a practical guide, starting off by quickly introducing you to the Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) ecosystem. You will learn how to create Blueprints and C++ code to define your game's functionality. You will be familiarized with the core systems of UE4 such as UMG, Animation Blueprints, and Behavior Trees. You will also learn how to use replication to create multiplayer games. By the end of this book, you will have a broad, solid knowledge base to expand upon on your journey with UE4.

• Use project templates to give your game a head start
• Create custom Blueprints and C++ classes and extend from Epic's base classes
• Use UMG to create menus and HUDs for your game
• Create more dynamic characters using Animation Blueprints
• Learn how to create complex AI with Behavior Trees
• Use replication to create multiplayer games
• Optimize, test, and deploy a UE4 project

Readers who already have some game development experience and Unity users who would like to try UE4 will all benefit from this book. Knowledge of basic Object-Oriented Programming topics such as variables, functions, and classes is assumed.

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