Unreal Engine 5 Showcase

Unreal Engine 5 is one of the most prominent game engine for many game studios now, especially independent studios due to the AAA quality of it

I have played around with a few game engines (UE, Bevy, O3DE, etc.) and UE5, as a public and "open code" game engine, leads the industry in 3D visual fidelity and functionality

It would be wise to learn some of it 😂

C++ Multiplayer Shooter Game

• Multiplayer
  • Using UE Online Subsystem to host and manage Steam game sessions
  • Bundled into a UE Plugin to be shareable: code
  • Variable and component replication, conditional replication, replication notify listeners
  • Client/server guarded logic
  • Remote Procedure Calls
• Simple game and level design: main menu, lobby, game map
• HUD
  • Overhead widgets, synced appropriately with clients/server

C++ Comprehensive Action RPG Game

Simple 3D Action RPG using C++ in Unreal Engine, showcasing comprehensive knowledge of UE5

• Landscaping, foliage painting, environment lighting, terrain sculpting and painting - basic level design
• Character controller, camera, movement (turning, rotations, jump)
• Controls using the new Enhanced Input System
• Animations
  • Animation Blueprints extending C++ animation instances
  • Inverse Kinematics, IK Rigs, IK Retargeting for character animations
  • State machines (idle, run, attacking, death)
  • Animation Montages with sound effects, notifications
  • Motion Warping to warp animations towards a target (e.g. attacks homing in on player)
  • Animation Blueprint Templates to cleanly share animation functionality across types
• Combat
  • Hovering animated weapons, with weapon pickup socketed to character for various animations
  • Directional weapon hit traces when attacking with enemy animated reactions
  • Sound and particle effects
  • Weapon damage, enemy health bars, death animations
  • Root Motion animations, and motion warping for more challenging combat
  • Different mob types with different attack mechanics
  • Dodge mechanics
• Attribute System - Health, Stamina, Souls system with soul drops, Gold from treasure pickups
• Loot
  • Breakable Actors using the Fracture system, new Chaos Physics engine and Field Systems generated from weapons
  • Randomly generated loot on actor breakage with pickup sound
  • Glow particle effects for weapons and loot
  • Souls system
• Audio
  • MetaSound effects
  • Footsteps, character noises
  • Impact feedback (combat, physical touches)
• AI - Patrolling, vision cones, aggro, chasing, targeting, attacking
• UI - HUD, Widgets, and Widget Components

Combat

Other mob types, sharing functionality with a base type

Breakable loot containers and combat

Weapon hit traces on attack

Pawn controller on a bird actor

IK Retargeting for animations

Inverse Kinematics on skeletal mesh legs

Environment lighting

Landscaping, terrain sculpting and painting, basic level design

Simple dungeon using Quixel Bridge assets

Foliage painting with backdrop assets

C++ RollaBall

Mini Rollaball game using C++ in Unreal Engine 5

• Character movement using keyboard controls
• Props with Event based functions (spinning cubes)
• Game mode with a Game State
• Simple Widget UI with current Game State

Top Down Character in C++

A top down Character Controller, Movement, Game Mode, and Camera written in C++

Blueprint Game Scene

Mini game scene in Blueprints, mostly following one of the official

• Character dynamic movement with animations and audio cues
• Props with action functions
• Landscaping
• Simple AI follower
• Foliage