Units of measurement

To begin this section, we want to first define measurement and what exactly we will measure in the context of Unreal Engine 4. In a general sense, the definition of measurement is determining the size, length, or the amount of something (such as distance), the length/width/height of an object, or the volume of a particular space. In the context of Unreal Engine 4, we will measure the lengths of each component of a 3D vector in the 3D space and the X, Y, and Z dimensions. For the 2D game world, we will measure the X and Y axes. In the real world, we can use the U.S. Standard and the European Standard units of measurement to measure distance.

In the U.S., we can use the standard of lengths that involve the use of inches (in

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