Beginning Unreal Game Development: Foundation for Simple to Complex Games Using Unreal Engine 4

© David Nixon 2020

D. NixonBeginning Unreal Game Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5639-8_2

2. Basic Concepts

David Nixon¹ 

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West Palm Beach, FL, USA

 

Before diving deep into any topic, you must learn the fundamentals. In this chapter, you will learn about three basic concepts in Unreal Engine – Projects, Levels, and Actors.

Projects

In the context of the Unreal Engine, a project is the unit that stores all the information for an individual game. Meaning each game you create will be stored in its own project.

For example, for a first-person shooter game, you might have a project called “ShooterProject.” If you wanted to work on another game, a puzzle game, you would create a new project and perhaps call it “PuzzleProject.” So if you are ...