Unreal Engine 4 for Video Games

Overview

“We will talk about Characters in Unreal, a class derived from Actor that serves to describe a character and gives him the ability to do common actions such as jumping, moving, etc. Every character in Unreal, whether controlled by a player or by artificial intelligence, uses this element as a base. I am going to explain its use and what features it offers us. After explaining several concepts, we are going to download a Character from the marketplace to work on it, preparing it to create our playable character from scratch, choosing a 3D model and configuring the camera.”

In this video lesson Jose Goncalves addresses the topic: Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: The Character. Learn how to give life to a playable character.

Partial transcription of the video

“UNREAL ENGINE 4 COURSE 2 LESSON 2 Characters In this lesson we are going to learn Characters in Unreal and we will understand it. We are going to use them to create our main character. Let us begin. The Character becomes a specialized form of actor used to describe characters you can play with. The project that we have created, this third-person Template, includes this mannequin by default that already has several options programmed, it has several animations and is perfect to start with. We are going to create our own and for that I want us to use a character from "Paragon". Join me at the...”

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Course summary for: Course 2: The Character

• Level: Beginner
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