Unreal Engine: Game Development from A to Z

Chapter 5. Lights, Camera, Action – Cinematics

In this chapter, we'll cover the following recipes:

• An introduction to Matinee
• Creating an opening cutscene
• Playing a Matinee via Blueprints
• Preventing a player from moving via cinematic mode

Introduction

Now that we have an understanding of creating environments, let's take some time to dive a little deeper into creating cinematics that we can use to give our titles even more depth.