Shannon - Unreal Engine 4 for Design Visualization: Developing Stunning Interactive Visualizations, Animations, and Renderings

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Developing Stunning Interactive Visualizations, Animations, and Renderings

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Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is quickly becoming the next big thing in games, visualization, and even feature films. Visualization firms, hobbyists, and professionals are eager to explore its possibilities. Unreal Engine 4 is a massive application with thousands of features, hundreds of hours of training videos, and countless tutorials, wikis, and community guides available. These resources can answer many questions about UE4, but finding whats important for visualization can be overwhelming. Almost all the learning resources available are geared toward creating games, not visualizations.

UE4 can seem both very familiar and very alien to people who know how to create traditionally rendered content. There are many similarities that can make learning UE4 easy; other times, things are only similar in name, but in practice are very different. The wrong assumptions can cause frustration and seem insurmountable.

This book aims to act as a guide to visualization studios and individuals, filtering out the noise and presenting the most relevant information using real-world examples, solid workflows, and some tools and tricks as well. Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is quickly becoming the next big thing in games, visualization, and even feature films. Visualization firms, hobbyists, and professionals are all eager to explore its possibilities. However, Unreal Engine 4 is a massive application with thousands of features, hundreds of hours of training videos, countless tutorials, wikis, and community guides available. These resources are overwhelming and lacking focus. Almost all are geared toward creating games, not visualizations.