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Unreal Engine FPS Game

1. Unreal Engine Introduction

In this section you will learn how to install Unreal Engine and navigate in its UI.

Introduction

Download and install Epic Games

Download and install Unreal Engine

Create new project

Basics of the Unreal Engine Editor UI

2. The Character Blueprint

In this section we will continue with looking into the blueprints. Blueprints are at the heart of everything that happens in Unreal Engine and are what we will be working on mostly in this course.

Character BP Overview

Creating Health Variable + Functions to increase or decrease it

Weapon BP Overview

Projectile BP Overview and adjustments

3. Enemy Blueprints

What is a first-person shooter without some enemies? In this section we will set up the enemy blueprints.

Create Enemy BP

Create Enemy Movement

Enemy Projectile BP & Fire Projectile

4. Level Design and Aesthetics

Level design is one of the most important parts of any game. A good level not only creates a suitable environment but also considers the timing of events in creating an enjoyable experience. Coupled with that, a good level tells a story without using words.

Blocking out the level

Setting up the enemy spawn points

Marketplace and Replacing Assets

5. User Interface and Sound Effects

Widgets, UMGs, and UI; they are all basically the same thing really. In this section, we will take a look at how to make menus and HUDs using widgets. We also take a look at how to add SFX to our widgets and blueprints.

Main Menu

HUD and Gameover Widget

Pause Menu

Implement sound into widget BPs

6. Gameplay Logic

We are almost done with our game at this point! In this section we are going to set up a system to increase the difficulty of the game as we proceed! Lastly, we are going to set up the winning and gameover logic for our game.

Set Up Tiers

Winning Logic

Gameover Logic

7. Packaging for Windows

Packaging for Windows is very easy in Unreal Engine. In this final and short section, we adjust the final bits, and then package our game!

Project Settings and Preparation for Packaging

Final Touches and Packaging

Implement sound into widget BPs

We have been primarily working on widgets in this chapter, but while we are at it, we might as well add some sound effects to the widgets! Coupled with that, we will add some basic sound effects to other blueprints to give some life to our game! So first, let us grab a sound package from the Marketplace!

Go to Marketplace and look for Interface & Item Sounds Pack which is a free pack on UE Marketplace. Get it and add it to your project.

With that done, we want to go to our widgets and set up the sound effects as described in the video.

The important thing here is that we want a .wav file, and we want the music to be loopable. To import the .wav file, make a new folder in Content and call it Music then simply drag and drop the file into that folder!

Please watch the video carefully, I have taken care of a bug in this video in particular, I had forgotten to add a DestroyActor to the BP_EnemyProjectile which I noticed and addressed in this video!