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3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender

You're reading from   3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender Combine the powerful UE4 with Blender to create visually appealing and comprehensive game environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881466
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jessica Plowman Jessica Plowman
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3D Game Design with Unreal Engine 4 and Blender
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Unreal, My Friend, I'd Like You to Meet Blender FREE CHAPTER 2. Starting Our First Project 3. It's Time to Customize! 4. Getting the Assets to the Level 5. Taking This Level Up a Notch 6. Monster Assets – The Level Totally Needs One of These 7. Let's Dress to Impress! 8. Lights, Camera, Animation! 9. Bang Bang – Let's Make It Explode Index

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At this point in the book we have two whitebox levels, complete with a starting point and an end goal in each one. We have also constructed a bit of narrative that strings the two together. In this section, I will show you how to use Blueprints to connect the two levels and allow a player to go from the cargo ship level to the space station by investigating the crate. In the end, we will have the skeleton of a game demo that could definitely be expanded on with additional art and gameplay to create a full game.

To connect the two levels, we will have to go back to the cargo ship and add a triggered event to the crate we placed there that allows the player to investigate it. This trigger will then allow the player to load to the space station level to continue the story:

Connecting our cargo ship level to the space station level

  1. Open the cargo ship level and add two things: A Box Trigger around the crate we created and a Text Render with a message saying to press the E key to...

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