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Unreal Engine 4.X By Example

You're reading from Unreal Engine 4.X By Example An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unreal Engine 4.X

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785885532

Length 506 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Benjamin Carnall

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Unreal Engine 4 FREE CHAPTER

2. Blueprints and Barrels – Your First Game

3. Advanced Blueprint, Animation, and Sound

4. Unreal Engine, C++, and You

5. Upgrade Activated – Making Bounty Dash with C++

6. Power Ups for Your Character, Power Ups for the User

7. Boss Mode Activated – Unreal Robots

8. Advanced AI and Unreal Rendering

9. Creating a Networked Shooter

10. Goodbyes and Thank yous

Index

Modifying the level to support AI

Alright! Now we can place all the puzzle pieces together by modifying our level to support our AI character. That means we have to adjust the size of the floor (as it is too small for both the player character and the AI character at this point) and place a NavMesh in the scene.

Let's start by adjusting the floor size. Within the world outlier, select the Floor StaticMeshActor. Address the Details panel and change the Scale property of the Transform section so that each axis is set to 8. This will give us a large enough area to run around in. Now we need to generate a navigation mesh for our floor so our AI can pathfind properly.

What is a navigation mesh

A navigation mesh is a generated mesh that acts as an area (defined by the polygons of the navigation mesh) for the AI to path within. Navigation meshes, or NavMeshes for short, are generated within the bounds of a Navigation Mesh volume. They can support slopes, obstacles, rough terrain, and much more. The...

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Authors (1)

Carnall

Carnall

Benjamin Carnall is an enthusiastic and dedicated programmer whose love for problem solving led him to the world of game development. He relishes opportunities to learn new and interesting ways to create gameplay experiences for others. Ben began his journey with Game Development in 2012, after he graduated from Media Design School with a diploma in interactive gaming. He then went on to graduate from the same university with a bachelors of software engineering in 2014. Since then, Ben has immersed himself in the Game Development community of New Zealandstarting out as a programming contractor and working on various titles around Auckland. He then began to work as a lecturer at Media Design School and taught Graphics programming for games, Physics programming for games, and Sony PlayStation development at the bachelors level. Most recently, Ben has been working as a programmer for the studio Aroura44, developing a title called Ashen.

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