Unreal Engine 4 Game Development Essentials

Creating a C++ project

Now that we have Visual Studio installed, let's create a project that includes C++ code. In this project, we will extend the Third Person Template that comes with Unreal Engine 4 and add support for health (including health regeneration):

Start Unreal Engine 4 and when the project browser dialog appears:

• Select the New Project tab
• Select the C++ sub tab
• Select Third Person
• Name your project
• Click on Create Project

When you click on Create Project, Unreal Engine 4 will create all the base classes required and will compile the project for you. This might take a minute or so. Once this is completed, the solution file (Visual Studio ...