Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a powerful game engine written in C++. You are limiting what you can do in UE4 if you do not learn any C++. Knowing about core concepts to C++ such as inheritance will benefit you whether you are a programmer or designer.
A HUD (head-up display) offers a simple way to communicate and interact in a video game. UE4 (Unreal Engine 4) offers a way to create HUDs through their UMG (Unreal Motion Graphics) system. However, when it comes to Virtual Reality (VR), HUDs need to work differently for it to be […]
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is great for Virtual Reality (VR) development because it offers those that does know how to code an alternative with its Blueprint (BP) system. BP offers convenience by giving you nodes that you can call for common tasks. For the majority of people, this is enough to […]
One of the most challenging aspects of virtual reality (VR) development is meeting the spec requirements with our current level of hardware. VR is resource heavy and may affect the time driven events you are developing in your project. The reason for this is that there are three main ways […]
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is a powerful engine where many amazing games and virtual reality (VR) experiences and games have been developed. An area that differs between VR and traditional games is how interactions between objects are done. For example in VR, you might interact with your head movement and your […]
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) packs a lot of features and it can be overwhelming when you are just starting out. For example, UE4 offers a nice system for saving and loading game progress, but it still can be daunting to understand and work with. My goal in this post is […]
Virtual Reality (VR) game development is much different from regular game development. For example, something like a basic head-up display (HUD) to show some stats would work fine in a regular game, but not in VR. In fact, standard HUD would cause rendering issues because it adds itself to the […]
