You're reading from Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine Learn to build your first games and bring your ideas to life using UE4 and C++

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209220

Length 822 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Game Scripting

Authors (5):

Gustavo Reis

Hammad Fozi

Gonçalo Marques

David Pereira

Devin Sherry

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Unreal Engine Introduction

2. Working with Unreal Engine FREE CHAPTER

3. Character Class Components and Blueprint Setup

4. Player Input

5. Line Traces

6. Collision Objects

7. UE4 Utilities

8. User Interfaces

9. Audio-Visual Elements

10. Creating a SuperSideScroller Game

11. Blend Spaces 1D, Key Bindings, and State Machines

12. Animation Blending and Montages

13. Enemy Artificial Intelligence

14. Spawning the Player Projectile

15. Collectibles, Power-Ups, and Pickups

16. Multiplayer Basics

17. Remote Procedure Calls

18. Gameplay Framework Classes in Multiplayer

DefaultInput.ini

If you go to your project's directory, using File Explorer, and then open its Config folder, you'll find some .ini files in it, one of which should be the DefaultInput.ini file. As the name suggests, this file holds the main settings and configuration for input-related properties.

In the first exercise of this chapter, where we edited the project's Input settings, what was happening, in reality, was that the editor was writing to and reading from the DefaultInput.ini file.

Open this file in a text editor of your choice. It contains many properties, but the ones we want to take a look at now are the list of Action Mappings and Axis Mappings. Near the end of the file, you should see, for instance, the Jump action being specified in this file:

+ActionMappings=(ActionName="Jump",bShift=False,bCtrl=False,  bAlt=False,bCmd=False,Key=SpaceBar)
+ActionMappings=(ActionName="Jump",bShift=False,bCtrl=False,  bAlt=False,bCmd=False,Key...