Creating Gameplay Systems using Blueprint Features in Unreal Engine
Throughout this Unreal Engine 4 tutorial, we'll learn techniques for using the advanced features of the Blueprint visual scripting system in Unreal Engine. Software required: Unreal Engine 4.4.2.
What you'll learn
Throughout this Unreal Engine 4 tutorial, we'll learn techniques for using the advanced features of the Blueprint visual scripting system in Unreal Engine. We'll program robust and scalable gameplay systems all without the need to write a single line of code. Through these exercises, you'll gain a better understanding of the immense power of the Blueprint visual scripting language. By the end of this Unreal Engine 4 training, you'll have a firm foundation of how Blueprint is fundamental to the way gameplay is programmed into games. Software required: Unreal Engine 4.4.2.
Table of contents
- Default Map and Player Setup 8m
- Create Blueprint to Be Base Class for Pickups 10m
- Finishing Base Class and Creating Subclasses 10m
- Using Construction Script and Inheritance to Create Unique Behavior 10m
- Adding Materials to the Pickups to Create an Enumeration 11m
- Overview of the Gamemode 10m
- Implementing Blueprint Interface Function in Gamemode 9m
- Tracking Player Pickups and Testing 11m
- Creating an Actor Blueprint to Communicate the Number of Remaining Pickups 10m
- Using Construction Script to Set Default Values for Variables 9m
- Creating and Implementing Interface Messages in Blueprint 9m
- Implementing Complex Functions Through Blueprint Interfaces 10m
- Rotating Scene Components Towards the Player 10m
- Implementing the Core Functionality of the Key Giver Blueprint Actor 11m
- Continuing to Implement the Core Functionality of the Key Giver Blueprint Actor 11m
- Completing the Implementation of the Key Giver Blueprint Actor 11m
- Setting up the Components of the Door Blueprint Actor 11m
- Creating a Blueprint Interface to Interact with Blueprints 5m
- Implementing Player Interactivity for the Door Blueprint Actor 10m
- Creating a Procedural Animation Using a Timeline 10m
- Using a Line Trace to Interact with the Game World 12m
- Using Blueprint Interfaces to Simplify Scripting 11m
- Creating a Simple User Interface with the Hud Blueprint 12m
- Creating the Blueprint Actor 8m
- Implementing the Overlap Events for the Gameovervolume Blueprint 5m
- Creating a New Blueprint Interface for the Character Blueprint 6m
- Completing the Gameovervolume Blueprint and Implementing Reloading of the Level 10m
- Final Level Play Through and Course Overview 5m
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