WEBVTT 00:07.060 --> 00:07.840 All right. 00:07.840 --> 00:08.650 Welcome back. 00:08.650 --> 00:10.150 Now we have our project. 00:10.150 --> 00:14.740 We're set up and we're ready to start making some C plus plus classes. 00:14.740 --> 00:16.960 And we're going to start with our character. 00:16.990 --> 00:18.340 We need a character. 00:18.340 --> 00:20.860 We need something to run around in the world. 00:20.860 --> 00:23.980 And we know that we have our character assets. 00:23.980 --> 00:27.760 If we go to characters Ora here is our skeletal mesh. 00:27.760 --> 00:32.410 We need an actual character class that we can assign this skeletal mesh to. 00:32.440 --> 00:35.020 So that's what we're going to do in this video. 00:35.140 --> 00:41.860 Now we're going to have some functionality in our character class that will be shared between our player 00:41.860 --> 00:48.420 controlled character that's going to be Ora and the enemy characters that will be controlled with AI. 00:48.430 --> 00:54.390 And because we're going to share some functionality, we're going to make a base class for our character. 00:54.400 --> 00:55.930 So that's what I'd like to do. 00:55.930 --> 01:02.860 Now I'm going to go up to Tools and select New C plus plus class and choose the character class. 01:02.860 --> 01:08.510 And for our C plus plus classes, I'd like to use the public and private Git folder structure. 01:08.510 --> 01:14.270 So I'm going to click on public and that's going to put our header file in public and the CPP file in 01:14.270 --> 01:14.900 private. 01:14.900 --> 01:17.840 And I'm going to call this class Ora. 01:18.870 --> 01:25.170 Character base and this will be our base class and we'll have all of our characters in this project 01:25.170 --> 01:26.820 derive from this class. 01:26.820 --> 01:28.920 So let's go ahead and create the class. 01:28.920 --> 01:35.580 Now I have live coding off and my project is set up so that it doesn't automatically compile when I 01:35.610 --> 01:36.900 create a class. 01:36.900 --> 01:40.260 So it's going to generate the C plus plus code. 01:40.260 --> 01:47.460 So I'll give it a moment and once that's finished, I'm going to go ahead and close out of the Unreal 01:47.460 --> 01:48.360 Engine editor. 01:48.390 --> 01:53.610 Now A has been generated for me, but I'm going to open this project in Rider. 01:53.610 --> 01:59.760 Now, if you don't have Rider, you can use Visual Studio or even VS code if you'd like to do that. 01:59.760 --> 02:07.620 But as I mentioned, I'll be using Rider for this course and I can right click on the project and select 02:07.620 --> 02:09.480 Open with Rider. 02:09.630 --> 02:13.260 Now I'm going to tell Rider that I trust this solution. 02:13.260 --> 02:20.100 So I'm going to click Trust and Open and we'll see our brand new Aura character base header and CPP 02:20.110 --> 02:20.530 files. 02:20.530 --> 02:28.000 Of course they'll be red because I'm version controlling this rider is smart enough to see that and 02:28.000 --> 02:31.330 it's letting me know that these files are not staged yet. 02:31.330 --> 02:34.220 So that's going to help me to remember. 02:34.240 --> 02:40.870 Now we also see Rider link is required, so I'm going to go ahead and click install plugin and game 02:40.870 --> 02:44.860 just to take care of that and we'll give this some time. 02:45.220 --> 02:51.880 We see now that rider is ready to use and we'll give Rider a moment to process Unreal Engine source 02:51.880 --> 02:52.660 files. 02:53.050 --> 03:00.610 Okay, so after waiting patiently, now that rider is finished, we can now take a look at our new character 03:00.610 --> 03:07.150 base class and I'm going to tell Rider not to ask me again to add new files to get. 03:07.180 --> 03:09.880 I think I can handle doing that on my own. 03:10.090 --> 03:12.430 And here's our project. 03:12.460 --> 03:17.590 The Aura module contains a source folder with some new things. 03:17.590 --> 03:20.400 Here we have Aura and CPP. 03:20.520 --> 03:24.870 We got our Buildpacks, all that good standard stuff. 03:24.870 --> 03:31.200 Here's our public and private folders with Aura, character based and CPP. 03:31.440 --> 03:36.330 And of course once I stage and commit these and git, they'll no longer be read. 03:36.360 --> 03:41.490 If you're not version controlling, then Rider will not make these read for you and you don't have to 03:41.490 --> 03:42.300 worry about it. 03:42.300 --> 03:48.780 So before we go ahead and get started rearranging and coding things, I'm just going to go ahead and 03:48.780 --> 03:57.390 open up the Visual Studio solution as well, just so we can see what things look like and that it's 03:57.390 --> 04:00.060 telling me I need to install some extra things. 04:00.060 --> 04:05.190 Let's take a look and install those things we might need that we don't have. 04:05.190 --> 04:13.440 And once that's complete, we can now take a look at our project here in Visual Studio and we can see 04:13.470 --> 04:17.460 Aura character base here, both H and CPP. 04:18.210 --> 04:22.450 So it doesn't really matter what ID you're using. 04:22.480 --> 04:25.150 What matters is the code itself. 04:25.240 --> 04:32.680 Now throughout the course we're going to be running in debug mode and to run in debug mode, we need 04:32.680 --> 04:41.230 the editor symbols for debugging, which is a set of symbols that allows us to see the call stack when 04:41.230 --> 04:44.740 we're debugging and when we hit breakpoints and things like that. 04:44.740 --> 04:51.310 We'll be getting lots of practice doing debugging throughout the course as that will greatly enhance 04:51.310 --> 04:58.840 our experience as developers and we'll go ahead and run in debug mode just to make sure that we're up 04:58.840 --> 05:01.660 and running and everything's working in this video. 05:01.660 --> 05:08.920 So the first thing we need to do in order to run in debug mode is we can open our epic games launcher. 05:09.800 --> 05:15.020 Go to library and find our version of Unreal Engine. 05:15.050 --> 05:19.670 Click the drop down next to launch and go to Options. 05:19.670 --> 05:22.660 And here we see editor symbols for debugging. 05:22.670 --> 05:28.760 Now, if you've taken some of my other courses, I haven't forced you to do this, namely because, 05:28.760 --> 05:32.870 well, it's nearly 60GB in this case, which is a lot. 05:32.870 --> 05:40.190 But for this course, I highly recommend that you do install editor symbols for debugging as debugging 05:40.190 --> 05:44.840 is an important skill that you should have as a game developer. 05:44.840 --> 05:50.870 And as you'll see throughout the course, it's going to allow us to get a lot of information that we 05:50.870 --> 05:53.270 would otherwise not have access to. 05:53.270 --> 05:58.070 So make sure that checkbox is checked and go ahead and hit apply. 05:58.070 --> 06:02.900 And I'm going to give this a few minutes to finish downloading those symbols. 06:02.900 --> 06:10.380 And in the meantime, I'm going to close out of the Ides, both Visual Studio and writer, and I'll 06:10.380 --> 06:13.050 go ahead and edit out that wait time. 06:13.470 --> 06:13.860 Okay. 06:13.860 --> 06:17.460 So now that that's finished, I'm done with the Epic Games launcher. 06:17.460 --> 06:22.200 I'm going to close it and reopen my project in my IDE. 06:22.680 --> 06:27.150 Now I'm going to go ahead and open up the new project in Writer First. 06:27.150 --> 06:32.160 And now that I have editor symbols for debugging, I can run this in debug mode. 06:32.160 --> 06:39.450 So I'd like to come up here to my solution configurations and change the configuration from development 06:39.480 --> 06:40.950 to debug game. 06:40.950 --> 06:48.570 So I've switched to debug game and now if I like I can hit run that'll compile and launch the Unreal 06:48.570 --> 06:51.240 engine editor without running in debug mode. 06:51.240 --> 06:57.150 Or I can hit the debug button which will run this project in debug mode. 06:57.180 --> 07:02.250 That's what we're going to do most of the time as we're developing and playtesting this project. 07:02.250 --> 07:06.720 So I'll go ahead and allow writer to launch the engine. 07:06.720 --> 07:13.350 We see up here that it says Ora debugging now and we now have the editor open and we're running in debug 07:13.350 --> 07:13.920 mode. 07:14.370 --> 07:19.200 Now, we do need to make sure that if we make changes here in the editor that need to be saved, that 07:19.200 --> 07:23.370 we do click save all before we end our debug session. 07:23.370 --> 07:28.110 If I go back to writer, you'll see that up here there's a red stop button. 07:28.110 --> 07:32.040 If I hit that, it's going to actually close out of the Unreal Engine editor. 07:32.040 --> 07:36.090 As you can see, it's no longer open, so that's something to be aware of. 07:36.120 --> 07:39.450 Now we can run in debug mode in Visual Studio as well. 07:39.450 --> 07:44.910 I'm going to close writer and open my Aura Visual Studio solution. 07:44.910 --> 07:51.480 I'll go ahead and close this What's new tab there and we can change this from development editor to 07:51.510 --> 07:59.790 debug game editor and what this will do is it'll run the project with debug symbols for our game project 07:59.790 --> 08:06.180 module and not the engine modules and we can simply hit the play button if we want to launch this in 08:06.180 --> 08:07.380 debug mode here. 08:07.380 --> 08:14.650 And once again we have aura open and just like we saw before when we were debugging from writer, we 08:14.650 --> 08:16.990 see debug game up here at the top. 08:17.140 --> 08:22.590 I'll go ahead and close out of the editor and I'm done with Visual Studio. 08:22.600 --> 08:24.520 I'm going to go ahead and close out of that. 08:24.520 --> 08:30.340 As I mentioned, I'll be using writer, so I really don't need my Visual Studio solution. 08:30.370 --> 08:32.950 It's there, but I can remove it. 08:32.950 --> 08:34.990 I can also remove the settings. 08:34.990 --> 08:39.250 That's just some options for writer slash Resharper. 08:39.280 --> 08:44.530 I'm going to go ahead and just delete both of those and I'll right click on the new project. 08:44.530 --> 08:48.430 And once again I'm going to open with writer. 08:51.080 --> 08:54.230 And I'm ready to actually start coding. 08:54.320 --> 08:56.680 Now we'll start coding in the next video. 08:56.690 --> 08:58.310 For now, we've got things set up. 08:58.310 --> 09:00.950 We're able to run and debug mode. 09:00.980 --> 09:02.800 Everything's looking great. 09:02.810 --> 09:07.700 I do have a lot of red here and I can fix that by making another commit. 09:07.700 --> 09:13.820 And the convention that I'll use for this course is each commit will be named after the lecture title, 09:13.820 --> 09:20.240 as is pretty common with my courses, so I'm going to go ahead and commit. 09:21.350 --> 09:23.090 I like to run git add 09:25.670 --> 09:34.790 git status and then I'll make a commit and I'll call this the base character class. 09:40.920 --> 09:42.480 So there's my commit. 09:42.630 --> 09:45.210 I can go ahead and push to my remote repo. 09:49.580 --> 09:50.720 And we're good. 09:50.720 --> 09:51.890 And back in Rider. 09:51.920 --> 09:54.020 The red is gone. 09:54.440 --> 09:56.310 Okay, we're all set up and ready. 09:56.330 --> 09:59.210 We'll start actually coding in the next video. 09:59.540 --> 10:00.530 I'll see you soon.