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Unreal Engine Blueprints for Beginners
Build interactive gameplay with Blueprints and bring your ideas to life visually
- Understand the Blueprints UI, Nodes, Pins and Wires
- Drive your game’s UMG UI, save data, animations and game logic
- Practice with hands-on mini-game projects!
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Level:
Beginner
Language: English
Software: Unreal
First Edition
✨ Get wired up with Blueprints and make your games come to life! ✨
Scripting and logic are the core of a game and its mechanics. In Unreal Engine Blueprints for Beginners, our mentor Nirin Parmar will guide you through everything you need to know to get your game's logic up and running. From understanding the Blueprints UI, nodes, pins and wires, to connecting them with Actors and Levels, and leveraging this knowledge to control UI elements and game flow. Along the way, you'll learn about Actor-Component architecture, Pawns, Blueprint communication, UI creation with UMG, and Timeline animations.
Throughout the book, you'll reinforce your knowledge through a series of mini-game projects where you'll create interactive doors, coin collectors, simple shooters, and more, allowing you to understand variables, events, and execution flow.
IMPORTANT: The chapters, descriptions, and main topics listed below are provisional and may be added to, merged, or otherwise modified as the book is being written. We’ll update this list every time a new chapter is released.
Chapter 1: Welcome to the World of Visual Scripting
(Under Construction)- What are Blueprints? Advantages and When to Use Them
- Navigating the Unreal Engine Interface
- Setting Up Your First Project and Level
- Understanding Actors, Components, and the World Outliner
Chapter 2: The Blueprint Editor: Your Creative Hub
(Under Construction)- Types of Blueprints (Actor, Level, Game Mode, etc.)
- Deep Dive into the Blueprint Editor UI
- Nodes, Pins, and Wires: The Building Blocks of Logic
- Compiling and Saving Blueprints
Chapter 3: Variables: Storing and Managing Data
(Under Construction)- Introduction to Variable
- Common Data Types
- Creating, Naming, and Organizing Variables
- Getters vs. Setters: Reading and Modifying Variable Values
- Variable Scope and Best Practices
Chapter 4: Variables: Storing and Managing Data
(Under Construction)- Understanding Events: Triggers for Your Logic
- Sequential Execution: Sequence Node
- Making Decisions: Branch (If/Else) Node
- Repetitive Actions: ForLoop, ForLoopWithBreak, WhileLoop
- Controlling Execution: DoOnce, Do N, Gate, MultiGate
- Debugging Flow with Print String and Breakpoints
Chapter 5: Reusable Logic: Functions and Macros
(Under Construction)- Introduction to Functions: Creating Modular Code Blocks
- Introduction to Macros: Collapsible Node Networks
- Organizing Your Blueprints with Functions and Macros
- Mini-Game Project 5: "Customizable Character"
Chapter 6: Blueprint Communication: Making Blueprints Talk
(Under Construction)- The Need for Communication Between Blueprints
- Direct Blueprint Communication (Hard References)
- Event Dispatchers: Broadcasting and Listening for Events
Chapter 7: Actors and Pawns: The Stars of Your Game
(Under Construction)- Deep Dive into Actors: Lifecycle (BeginPlay, Tick, EndPlay)
- Spawning and Destroying Actors Dynamically
- Introduction to Pawns: Controllable Entities
- Player Controllers and Possessing Pawns
- Basic Input Handling for Pawns
Chapter 8: Components: Adding Functionality
(Under Construction)- Understanding the Component-Based Architecture
- Common Component Types: Scene, Primitive, Movement, Audio
- Adding, Removing, and Accessing Components via Blueprints
- Modifying Component Properties at Runtime
Chapter 9: User Interface (UI) with UMG: Displaying Information
(Under Construction)- Introduction to Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG)
- Creating Widget Blueprints
- Common UMG Elements: Canvas Panel, Borders, Text, Buttons, Images, Progress Bars
- Anchors and Layout for Different Screen Sizes
- Binding Data from Blueprints to UMG Elements
- Creating a Basic HUD (Heads-Up Display)
Chapter 10: Timelines: Animating with Blueprints
(Under Construction)- Introduction to Timelines for Simple Animations and Interpolations
- Creating and Configuring Timelines: Float, Vector, Event Tracks
- Use Cases: Smoothly Opening Doors, Fading Lights, Moving Platforms
- Controlling Timeline Playback (Play, Reverse, Stop, Set New Time)
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