Learning C++ by Building Games with Unreal Engine 4: A beginner's guide to learning 3D game development with C++ and UE4, 2nd Edition

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
www.PacktPub.com
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with C++17
	Setting up our project
		Using Microsoft Visual Studio on Windows
			Downloading and Installing Visual Studio
			Starting a New Project in Visual Studio
		Using Xcode on a Mac
			Downloading and installing Xcode
			Starting a new project in Xcode
	Creating your first C++ program
		Semicolons
		Handling errors
		Warnings in C++
	What is building and compiling?
		Example output
			Exercise - ASCII art
	Summary
Chapter 2: Variables and Memory
	Variables
		Declaring variables – touching the silicon
			Reading and writing to your reserved spot in memory
	Numbers and math
		Numbers are everything
		More on variables
		Math in C++
			Exercises
		Generalized variable syntax
		Primitive types
	Advanced variable topics
		Automatically detecting type
		Enums
		const variables
	Building more complex types
		Object types – struct
			Exercise – player
				Solution
		Pointers
		What can pointers do?
		Address of operator (&)
			Using nullptr
		Smart pointers
	Input and output
		The cin and cout objects
		The printf() function
			Exercise
			Solution
	Namespaces
	Summary
Chapter 3: If, Else, and Switch
	Branching
	Controlling the flow of your program
		The == operator
		Coding if statements
		Coding else statements
		Testing for inequalities using other comparison operators (>, >=, <, <=, and !=)
	Using logical operators
		The not (!) operator
			Exercises
			Solutions
		The and (&&) operator
		The or (||) operator
		Exercise
		Solution
		Branching code in more than two ways
		The else if statement
			Exercise
			Solution
		The switch statement
			The switch statement versus the if statement
			Exercise
			Solution
			Bit-shifted enums
	Our first example with Unreal Engine
	Summary
Chapter 4: Looping
	The while loop
		Infinite loops
		Exercises
		Solutions
	The do/while loop
	The for loop
		Exercises
		Solutions
	Looping with Unreal Engine
	Summary
Chapter 5: Functions and Macros
	Functions
	An example of a library function – sqrt()
	Writing our own functions
		A sample program trace
		Exercise
		Solution
	Functions with arguments
	Functions that return values
		Exercises
		Solutions
	Initializer lists
	Variables revisited
		Global variables
		Local variables
		The scope of a variable
		Static local variables
		Const variables
		Const and functions
		Function prototypes
		.h and .cpp files
		prototypes.h
		funcs.cpp
		main.cpp
		extern variables
	Macros
	Macros with arguments
	Constexpr
	Summary
Chapter 6: Objects, Classes, and Inheritance
	What is an object?
	The struct object
		Member functions
			The this keyword
		Are strings objects?
		Invoking a member function
			Exercises
			Solutions
		Privates and encapsulation
		Some people like it public
	The class keyword versus struct
	Getters and setters
		Getters
		Setters
		But what\'s the point of get/set operations?
	Constructors and destructors
	Class inheritance
		Derived classes
			Syntax of inheritance
			What does inheritance do?
		The is-a relationship
		Protected variables
		Virtual functions
		Purely virtual functions 
	Multiple inheritance
		Private inheritance
	Putting your classes into headers
		Using .h and .cpp files
		Exercise
	Object-oriented programming design patterns
		Singletons
		Factories
		Object pools
		Static members
	Callable objects and invoke
	Summary
Chapter 7: Dynamic Memory Allocation
	Constructors and destructors revisited
	Dynamic memory allocation
		The delete keyword
		Memory leaks
	Regular arrays
		The array syntax
		Exercise
		Solution
	C++ style dynamic size arrays (new[] and delete[])
	Dynamic C-style arrays
	Vectors
	Summary
Chapter 8: Actors and Pawns
	Actors versus pawns
	Creating a world to put your actors in
	The UE4 editor
		Editor controls
		Play mode controls
		Adding objects to the scene
	Starting a new level
		Adding light sources
		Collision volumes
			Adding collision volumes
	Adding the player to the scene
		Inheriting from UE4 GameFramework classes
			Associating a model with the Avatar class
				Downloading free models
		Loading the mesh
			Creating a blueprint from our C++ class
	Writing C++ code that controls the game\'s character
		Making the player an instance of the Avatar class
		Setting up controller input
			Exercise
			Solution
		Yaw and pitch
	Creating non-player character entities
	Displaying a quote from each NPC dialog box
		Displaying messages on the HUD
			Exercise
		Using TArray
			Exercise
		Triggering an event when the player is near an NPC
			Making the NPC display something to the HUD when the player is nearby
			Exercises
			Solutions
	Summary
Chapter 9: Templates and Commonly-Used Containers
	Debugging the output in UE4
	Templates and containers
	Your first template
	UE4\'s TArray
		An example that uses TArray
		Iterating a TArray
			The vanilla-for-loop-and-square-brackets notation
			Iterators
		Determining whether an element is in the TArray
	TSet
		Iterating a TSet
		Intersecting TSet arrays
		Unioning TSet arrays
		Finding in TSet arrays
	TMap
		A list of items for the player\'s inventory
		Iterating a TMap
	TLinkedList/TDoubleLinkedList
	C++ STL versions of commonly-used containers
		The C++ STL set
			Finding an element in a 
			Exercise
			Solution
		The C++ STL map
			Finding an element in a