Summary

We have covered a number of very important concepts about the objects that we use to populate our game world in Unreal Engine 4. We have broken one of the most common types of game object, Static Mesh, into its most fundamental components in order to understand its construction. We have also compared two types of game objects (Static Meshes and BSP), how they are different, and why they have their spot in the game. This will help you decide what kind of objects need to be created and how they will be created for your game level.

The chapter also briefly introduced textures and materials, how they are created, and applied onto the meshes. We will go into more details about Materials in the next chapter. So you might want to read Chapter ...

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