Unreal Engine 4 for Video Games

Overview

“In this lesson, I will explain the whole topic of Event Dispatchers in Unreal, elements that allow us from blueprints to notify other Unreal actors that an event has happened, I will give you some simple examples and you will see how useful they are to implement different mechanics. The Event Dispatchers will fire when we need to, and the actors who subscribe to these events will be able to respond and receive useful information. To demonstrate them, we are going to create an area that when our character is detected, will launch an event and a platform will respond by disappearing.”

In this video lesson Jose Goncalves addresses the topic: Event Dispatchers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Game Mechanics. Build the laws that govern your game world.

Partial transcription of the video

“UNREAL ENGINE 4 COURSE 3 LESSON 2 Event dispatchers In this lesson we are going to learn how to use Event Dispatchers. Pay attention because they are quite interesting, quite powerful, and we are going to use them so that the Actors find out of what is happening. Let's start. We have our character that is controlled and we have created a volume that is capable of reacting every time a Pawn enters or leaves using the Begin and Overlap events. Within Blueprints, LevelGameplay, we have the Basic Collider, we put it here on the ladder. When the character enters, Begin Overlap and when it comes ...”

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Course summary for: Course 3: Game Mechanics

• Level: Beginner
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