1 00:00:04,190 --> 00:00:09,590 ‫Hello and welcome to this section where we're going to create this amazing looking tank game. 2 00:00:09,590 --> 00:00:15,590 ‫We have this blue tank that we can roll around in the world and control and aim at things and actually 3 00:00:15,590 --> 00:00:22,460 ‫launch projectiles so that we can destroy these enemies that exist at the central structure at the map. 4 00:00:22,460 --> 00:00:28,070 ‫Now, these enemies have some basic A.I. where they can aim at us and launch projectiles at us. 5 00:00:28,070 --> 00:00:34,070 ‫So there's a danger factor and we can also destroy them so that we can win the game. 6 00:00:34,070 --> 00:00:38,390 ‫Now, they can actually destroy us as well, as you can see here. 7 00:00:38,390 --> 00:00:44,450 ‫So there is a little bit of excitement, a little bit of difficulty involved in trying to win the game. 8 00:00:44,450 --> 00:00:50,570 ‫So this is a really nice little simple game, jam style game, and by the end of it, you will learn 9 00:00:50,570 --> 00:00:51,890 ‫a ton of skills. 10 00:00:51,890 --> 00:00:57,170 ‫So I hope you're ready to create some C++ classes and do some gameplay programming. 11 00:00:57,170 --> 00:01:03,890 ‫This is going to be a really cool section, so get ready to dive into the engine and create this project. 12 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,580 ‫Now let's talk a little bit about what we're going to cover in this section. 13 00:01:07,580 --> 00:01:13,250 ‫So here's a section plan and you can refer back to this roadmap from time to time to check your progress 14 00:01:13,250 --> 00:01:15,350 ‫and see how far you've come in the section. 15 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:19,850 ‫Now, first, we're going to create a tank that can move around throughout the world. 16 00:01:19,850 --> 00:01:23,480 ‫This is going to be what we control as we're playing the game. 17 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:30,470 ‫We're going to configure our tank to handle movement using the WAC keys as well as moving the mouse 18 00:01:30,470 --> 00:01:35,810 ‫around and using mouse button clicks to rotate the tanks, turret and fire projectiles. 19 00:01:35,810 --> 00:01:41,150 ‫We're then going to create an enemy turret class and this is going to be the adversary for the game. 20 00:01:41,150 --> 00:01:44,870 ‫It's going to search for us and launch projectiles at us. 21 00:01:44,870 --> 00:01:46,190 ‫As we're playing. 22 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:51,440 ‫We're going to add a fire functionality that we could launch with a mouse click, and the enemy turrets 23 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,550 ‫will also use fire functionality to launch projectiles at us. 24 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:59,210 ‫We're then going to add health damage and destruction to the game. 25 00:01:59,210 --> 00:02:01,400 ‫So this adds a little bit of danger. 26 00:02:01,430 --> 00:02:06,800 ‫Now towards the end of this section, we'll add some special effects like smoke, explosions and sounds 27 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,770 ‫to make our game a little bit more dynamic and fun. 28 00:02:09,770 --> 00:02:15,260 ‫And we'll wrap the section up with winning and losing conditions with HUD displays that will show us 29 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:21,470 ‫when the game is starting and when the game has finished either when we've lost or when we've destroyed 30 00:02:21,470 --> 00:02:23,360 ‫all the turrets and won the game. 31 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,220 ‫So this gives you a little bit of a roadmap showing you the features that will implement and the skills 32 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:30,050 ‫you'll learn throughout this section. 33 00:02:30,050 --> 00:02:36,830 ‫Now we are ready to start this game project so you can download this game project from the link in the 34 00:02:36,830 --> 00:02:38,630 ‫resources for this video. 35 00:02:38,660 --> 00:02:42,620 ‫You're going to download it, you're going to extract it just like you would any other zip file. 36 00:02:42,740 --> 00:02:47,480 ‫And then once it's downloaded and extracted, you can open it up in Unreal Engine. 37 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:53,240 ‫Now, once you've opened the project, you'll see what I'm seeing here, which is this cool looking 38 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:58,700 ‫level with the purple sky and this grid here for the ground. 39 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:05,960 ‫And this is basically a stripped down, barebones project that only has what we need for this game. 40 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:11,840 ‫So you'll see here in the content browser, under the content folder, we have an assets folder and 41 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,430 ‫we have a maps folder. 42 00:03:13,430 --> 00:03:17,210 ‫And in the maps folder we have a level called main. 43 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,490 ‫It says level in parentheses there. 44 00:03:19,490 --> 00:03:25,400 ‫That's how you can know and you'll see up at the top left here in this tab it says main, of course, 45 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,900 ‫that is referring to this level that we have open called Main. 46 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:36,380 ‫Now we have an assets folder with some folder structure already created for us here there is an audio 47 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:38,990 ‫folder with two audio assets. 48 00:03:38,990 --> 00:03:43,610 ‫You can go ahead and click play on these icons just to hear what these assets sound like. 49 00:03:43,610 --> 00:03:48,500 ‫We have some effects now here in the effects folder, we have three special effects. 50 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:51,740 ‫Now if you double click them, you can see what these effects look like. 51 00:03:51,740 --> 00:03:53,960 ‫This is more of an explosion type effect. 52 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,710 ‫The next one is a hit effect which looks like a cloud of smoke. 53 00:03:57,710 --> 00:04:03,710 ‫And then we have the projectile trail and this will follow the projectile as it's launching throughout 54 00:04:03,710 --> 00:04:10,070 ‫the world, a materials folder that is filled with materials that will be used with our meshes. 55 00:04:10,070 --> 00:04:16,880 ‫And that brings me to the meshes folder, which contains the tank and the turret, both the base and 56 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,930 ‫the top part here, as well as a projectile and this sphere. 57 00:04:20,930 --> 00:04:25,400 ‫And finally we have a textures folder which contains some textures for us. 58 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,030 ‫So these are the assets that we will need for this game project. 59 00:04:29,030 --> 00:04:32,360 ‫So they're already provided for us in this project. 60 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:38,030 ‫So basically a lot of the work has been done to set this up for you so you don't have to spend all that 61 00:04:38,030 --> 00:04:41,420 ‫time creating the level and going and finding assets. 62 00:04:41,420 --> 00:04:47,600 ‫This is all prepared for you just so we can start coding the game now. 63 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,320 ‫In addition to the level itself, we also have some input, access and action mapping set up so that 64 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,820 ‫we don't have to set those up. 65 00:04:55,820 --> 00:05:03,080 ‫If you go to edit and project settings and then scroll down to input, here we have action mappings 66 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:03,350 ‫and. 67 00:05:03,450 --> 00:05:06,670 ‫Axis mappings, there's an action mapping called fire. 68 00:05:06,690 --> 00:05:10,800 ‫If you click the dropdown next to it, you'll see that it's mapped to the left mouse button. 69 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:16,350 ‫So every time we click the left mouse button, we have this fire action mapping and we're going to learn 70 00:05:16,350 --> 00:05:23,100 ‫how to tap into this in C++ so that we can utilize that left mouse button to do stuff. 71 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:29,250 ‫And similarly, we have these access mappings and these are mapped to keyboard keys as well. 72 00:05:29,250 --> 00:05:36,690 ‫Move forward is mapped to W and S turn is mapped to D and A and then rotate turret is mapped to the 73 00:05:36,690 --> 00:05:38,220 ‫mouse x axis. 74 00:05:38,220 --> 00:05:43,890 ‫That means when we move the mouse left and right, we're feeding input information into the input system 75 00:05:43,890 --> 00:05:47,430 ‫which takes it, registers it, and then does something with it. 76 00:05:47,460 --> 00:05:51,570 ‫We'll learn all about what that something is in future videos. 77 00:05:51,570 --> 00:05:56,370 ‫So these are some settings that we have set up for us all ready. 78 00:05:56,370 --> 00:06:02,760 ‫And all we need to do is start creating classes and start programming to get this game structured, 79 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,740 ‫created and ready to play. 80 00:06:04,740 --> 00:06:06,090 ‫So I hope you're excited. 81 00:06:06,090 --> 00:06:07,050 ‫I'm excited. 82 00:06:07,050 --> 00:06:12,450 ‫In the next video, we're going to start creating C++ classes and actually start fleshing out this game 83 00:06:12,450 --> 00:06:14,550 ‫and have something that we can play. 84 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:16,950 ‫So I'll see you in the next video. 85 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:19,350 ‫Get ready to start coding.