Sjoerd De Jong, Evangelist, Epic Games

3. UE4 Flight Game
Sjoerd De Jong
sjoerd.dejong@epicgames.com
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4. Overview
● Flying a toy plane game from scratch
● Plane setup
● Checkpoint system
● World building
● Lighting and Rendering
● Using free Epic UE4 assets
● Blueprint, Material editor, Level Design,
Foliage, Lighting
● Packaged and ready for distribution

5. Part 1 - Blueprint and C++
● Templates and Project setup
● Blueprint introduction
● Plane setup
● Checkpoint system
● Checkpoint placement
● Extending through C++

6. Templates

7. Example Content

8. ● Game Mode
● Player Pawn
○ Forward motion
○ Camera
○ Controls and input
Core Game

9. ● Checkpoint BP
● BP communication
● Game State
Checkpoints

10. ● Setting up new classes
● Extending Blueprint with new C++ code
C++ Extensions and Replacements

11. ● Splines
● Construction Script
Checkpoint Placement

12. Part 2 - Art Pipeline, world editing, Lighting
● Art pipeline
● Materials
● World building
● Lighting
● Foliage

13. ● Importing a model
● Lightmaps
● Collision
Importing models

14. ● Importing a texture
● Creating a wall material
● Material instances
Materials

15. ● Building the world
● Sky
● Importing world sections
● Overriding materials
New Level

16. ● Foliage system
● Paint in Lego
Foliage

17. ● Playerstart
● Checkpoints
● Reflection actors
● PP volume
● Lightmass Imp Volume
● Char Ind Detail Volume
Actors and Volumes

18. ● Lightmass setup
● Light Types
● IES
● Rebuilding
Lighting

19. ● Advanced lighting effects
● Light Functions
Discoball

20. Part 3 - Particles, sounds, menus
● Music
● Engine sound
● Checkpoint particle
● Packaging

21. Engine Sound

22. Checkpoint Particle

23. Packaging The Game

24. The End
sjoerd.dejong@epicgames.com
@hourences