Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

Awesome !!!

This book is good but not that basic, it will introduce you to the most essential aspects of unreal engine 4 but will go a little deep, you will see more than you expect, but the author has made a great job doing it the right way. I liked that this book really covers most of the features that I already know that Unreal have, but showed me much more and how to use it, I think that my abilities of unreal before reading this book was about 80%, I had already read another books of unreal but this have more global vision of unreal and show not only the basic features, now I think that I really now less than before, but now I understand what I need to focus on my learning usage, this engine is more sophisticated than the average other engines that I've already used in the past, but anyone who loves to develop games would think in make a AAA game, unreal is the best tool for any development team size, it has a lot of features, big community, open-source and free, there are much more pro's than con's in my opinion but to start using this could be really difficult and care a lot of time to achieve quality result, this book was like a personal teacher, I read more than one time and some chapters I think that I need to read more times, but I have to say that is really good, like a personal teacher, each chapter show in detail unreal engine features, this enable me to start doing things more professionally I think, the book covers the basics of installation or compiling the source to packaging the project to distribute your work. I would recommend to my friends game developers this book helped me and I think that even if you already work on unreal this book will teach you the powers of unreal in detail.

I am new to the unreal engine 4, but not new to using programming and game development books to help further my knowledge and skills. I purchased this book because it claims to be a useful guide for beginners. It does not provide any step by step tutorials or provide any cohesion between what is being shown as an example and what is expected by the learner. The pictures in the book are not color and they are near impossible to see considering the engine interface is black.. The publishing company offers the pictures in color through a website address, however, when going to the address the link was dead and after a thorough search I got frustrated and gave up on looking for the pictures.The author provides some helpful links to other web sites for further reading, however, for the cost of the book I would expect the author to provide the help himself. If you are looking for a true guide into this development engine then this book will not meet your satisfaction.If you want a really broad view of the engine, then this book may provide enough information to suite your needs, however it was simply not for me and I have gone on to ordering other books and reading tutorials online for better information.

You are a novice game developer but don't know how to reach out professional skills? Don't worry, this is your lucky day if you are about to buy this book. Across the 11 chapters of the book, the author guides the reader in depth on all features and techniques for going to novice to pro into game development using Unreal Editor 4. The book covers from basic aspects as UE4 GUI, Material Editor or importing 3ds max assets, to advanced matters like Particles, HUD interfaces or developing your own C++ code.I don't recommend this book only either if you don't have any knowledge at all on the gaming development matter or have previous good knowledge of the Unreal Editor work-flow and develop only C++ code.In any other case scenario consider this your best book to became a good UE4 game developer.

This is a good book, clearly written, thoroughly explained, covering a lot of ground in a short space of time. Highly recommended..

Good starting information, not too much on input and asset creation, but still a quality starting guide.

This book is great for getting up to speed with unreal engine! :)

The image to small and almost not visible , won't purchase anymore thecknical book on kindle