Building an RPG with Unreal Book - Anyone Read?

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@Brandelan;540457

Read it, and followed the whole book through. The differences between 4.7 and 4.11 were pretty easy to deal with. However, I found the practices in the book to be sub par at best.

It describes the setting of the game being constructed as a tower where you fight your way up floors to the final villain. NONE of this is done in the book. It doesn’t even devise a system for random encounters with enemies. Instead, it relies on you running a console command to initiate “battle”.

I understand it might be trying to build a framework you can run with, but I don’t even think it does a good job of that.

Several of the systems you end up creating feel hard-coded. Especially the blueprint UMG inventory and equipment systems. If we were truly creating a framework to re-use or start from, then the code should reflect that with some easy to modify, modular code.

I have to agree. I bought the book hoping to find something more complete but to be honest it’s not very good.

Too many hardcoded things, a lot of C++ which I don’t really have an issue with but not enough info on how to extend the game. A lot of the game seems incomplete. There is just a lot missing imo. We would have been better served with a tutorial series on Udemy or something like that can be updated, extended etc.

It would be nice to get a blueprint tutorial for an RPG. I’ve made due by scouring youtube for tutorials and some of them are pretty **** good. I just have to fill in the missing pieces and I can kind of translate some of the stuff this book to blueprints in most cases.

Either Id say save your money.