Project Setup

Let's begin this chapter by creating our Unreal Engine project:

1. Launch UE4. Select the Games project category, then press Next.
2. Select the Third Person template, then press Next.
3. Make sure the first option is set to C++ and not Blueprint.
4. Select the location of the project according to your preference and name your project Dodgeball, then press Create Project.

   When the project is done being generated, you should see the following on your screen:

   Figure 5.1: Dodgeball project loaded up

5. After the code has been generated and the project opens up, close the UE4 editor and open the files of the generated third-person Character class, DodgeballCharacter, in Visual Studio, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 5.2: Files generated in Visual studio

As mentioned before, your project is going to have a top-down perspective. Given that we're starting this project from the Third Person Template, we'll have...