2015
Digital Tutors
Jonathan Daley
3:25
English

Throughout this Unreal Engine tutorial we'll learn how to setup a local split screen multiplayer game in Unreal Engine 4.
We'll learn best practices for setting up user interfaces for multiple players, and how to determine game state outcomes involving multiple players. By the end of this Unreal Engine training, you'll gain an understanding of how to setup a local multiplayer split screen game, and will learn pitfalls that can be avoided when designing the User Interface for a game that utilizes local split screen multiplayer.

1 Introduction and project overview
2 Setting up the Map, Pawn, and GameMode for Local Multiplayer
3 Creating players in a local multiplayer game
4 Caching each Pawn's Player Index number
5 Slowing a player's speed when they're hit
6 Resetting movement speed after a short delay
7 Modifying the Material for the ship
8 Using a Dynamic Material Instance
9 Creating a simple pickup
10 Initial Setup for a Heads Up Display (HUD) Class Blueprint
11 Displaying the number of pickups collected in the HUD Class Blueprint
12 Updating the HUD's Cached Value for the number of pickups collected
13 Using a Timeline to create a countdown timer
14 Displaying time remaining in the HUD
15 Creating our game over state
16 Handling the game over state
17 Implementing the HandleGameOver Function
18 Creating the second For Each loop for our HandleGameOver function
19 Completing the HandleGameOver Function
20 Scripting the game over HUD
21 Completing the game over UI
22 Testing the completed game and quick review

Download File Size:2.92 GB

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