Common measurements in Unreal Engine 4

When you work on any game engine, it is very important and useful to know the common measurements that are used in your game world. Each game is different, and the scaling of that game world will be different depending on whether or not the developers are going for realistic scaling measurements, but for the purposes of this book, the following measurements will be for a game world that is going for realism. Remembering that by default, 1 uu is equal to 1 cm in Unreal Engine 4, here are some of the common measurements that you can implement in your game world. An additional note is that all the following dimensions are set under the assumption that your player character is roughly 6 ft tall or 180 uu.

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