Unreal Engine 4 for Beginners

Unreal Engine 4 for Beginners, as its name implies, is specifically written with the beginner in mind. It is meant for those who wish to learn how to make video games with no prior video game development, video game design, or video game programming experience. It concentrates on the fundamentals, in order to build a rock solid foundation upon which the reader can use to confidently explore more advanced topics. It provides a thorough examination of the basics, covering each subject in fine detail. Great care has been taken to advance through the subject matter in an order that best ensures that everything needed to understand one piece of information has already been covered in the information prior. It makes a great textbook for an Intro to Unreal Engine 4, or Unreal Engine 101 course.

This full-color book concentrates heavily on four key areas:

Environments - Construct beautiful virtual worlds with moving objects and sounds
Inputs - Enter and explore the worlds you construct by creating a Character and specifying how it can move and how to control those movements
Menus & Displays - Learn how to create the user interfaces and on-screen displays that will enhance your game and bring it to the next level
Logic - Learn how to construct logic and take full control over the first three subject areas. How should objects in your world move? What should cause a certain sound to play? How does the player win the game? You decide!

Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is state-of-the-art video game creation software. It's a framework that assists in video game design and video game programming of PC desktop computer, Xbox One, and PS4 games. This beginner's textbook for novices will teach you how to make a video game from scratch, even if you have no experience in even the basics of gaming, game development, or 3D animation and modeling. Even dummies and idiots can follow this carefully structured gamedev textbook!

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