Creating a Space Flight Simulator in Unreal Engine
In this Unreal Engine tutorial we'll learn how to use physics components to create a space ship that handles realistically. Software required: Unreal Engine 4.7.5.
What you'll learn
In this Unreal Engine tutorial we'll learn how to use physics components to create a space ship that handles realistically. We'll also learn how to build a player pawn from scratch, along with utilizing Unreal motion graphics to create a responsive, and animated user interface. Finally, we'll wrap up this Unreal Engine training by learning how to create a follow, as well as an interior cockpit camera for the space ship. Software required: Unreal Engine 4.7.5.
Table of contents
- Creating Gamemode and Pawn Classes 10m
- Creating a Blueprint Interface to Communicate with Our Pawn 11m
- Creating a Flight Gate 11m
- Tracking the Gates the Pawn Flies Through 11m
- Setting up the Input Bindings 11m
- Adding a Mesh and Cameras 9m
- Scripting Camera Views 5m
- Adjusting Third Person Camera 8m
- Adding Physics Thruster Components 11m
- Scripting Our Ship's Roll Controls 10m
- Implementing Our Ship's Pitch and Yaw Controls 6m
- Scripting Our Ship's Thrust Controls 7m
- Using Dynamic Material Instances to Make the Ship's Engines Glow When Active 8m
- Creating the User Interface for the Cockpit View 7m
- Scripting the User Interface to Show the Ship's Pitch and Roll 9m
- Creating the User Interface for the Third Person Camera 5m
- Creating a User Interface Widget 9m
- Implementing the User Interface and Debugging in Blueprint 11m
About the author
Jonathan Daley is an indie game developer with a passion for game design, programming, and storytelling in games. He is the CEO, Lead Designer, and Lead Programmer of Nacelle Games, LLC, an independent game studio who is 'Making The Games We Want To Play'. Jonathan has two college degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from UNC Charlotte, and an Associates in Applied Sciences in Simulation and Game Development from Central Piedmont Community College. He has created over a dozen games,... more