Unreal Engine 4 Shooter Game Demo

The Unreal Engine Shooter Game demo with quality-of-life improvements. Improvements are licensed under the MIT license.

Command Line Options

-vulkan: Render the game using the Vulkan graphics API (supported on Linux and Windows)

-dx11: Render the game using the DX11 graphics API (supported on Windows only)

-dx12: Render the game using the DX12 graphics API (supported on Windows only)

-benchmark: Launch the Shooter game in benchmarking mode. In this mode, the game will launch directly into a Free-for-All match with no bots

-timeout: Exit benchmark after the specified number of seconds. Default: 60

Releases

Prebuilt binary packages for Linux and Windows are available on the GitHub Releases page.

Linux Build Setup

1. Clone Unreal Engine 4 from source:

   mkdir -p ~/src && cd src
   git clone https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git
   # or if you are using ssh authentication:
   # git clone [email protected]:EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git
   cd UnrealEngine
   # checkout target engine version
   git checkout 4.26.0-release

2. Run initial engine setup:

   ./Setup.sh
   ./GenerateProjectFiles.sh
   make

3. Clone Shooter Game source:

   cd ~/src
   # make sure git-lfs is initialized; see https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-lfs#installing-git-lfs
   git lfs install
   git clone https://github.com/cqcallaw/shootergame.git

4. Generate project files:

   ~/src/UnrealEngine/GenerateProjectFiles.sh -project ~/src/shootergame/ShooterGame.uproject -game -engine

5. Run initial build engine (without which, the Unreal Editor complains about changing engine files):

   ~/src/UnrealEngine/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/Linux/RunMono.sh ~/src/UnrealEngine/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe Development Linux -Project ~/src/shootergame/ShooterGame.uproject -TargetType=Editor -Progress

6. Open the project in UEd:

   ~/src/UnrealEngine/Engine/Binaries/Linux/UE4Editor ~/src/shootergame/ShooterGame.uproject

Windows Build Setup

1. Setup Visual Studio (the Community edition works)
2. Download and launch Unreal Engine 4
3. Clone the ShooterGame project (Git LFS is required; Github Desktop works well)
4. Open the ShooterGame.uproject project
5. Click File->Generate Visual Studio Solution

Build FAQ

• Why does time run too fast in-game?
  • Non-Shipping and builds that without complete lighting can exhibit this behavior. Try a lighting rebuild and building a Shipping binary.
• Why is the player start position random?
  • Verify that benchmark mode has been enabled with the -benchmark command-line argument. Without this flag, the game behaves as normal Shooter Game demo.