Terminology in UE5

holds all the contents of your game

• Blueprint Visual Scripting system

• UE5 Project

• a World

• Game mode

is a gameplay scripting with a node-base interface and object oriented

• The game mode

• The game state

• Blueprint visual system

• Unreal Engine 5

is any object that can be placed into a level

• An actor

• A volume

• A component

• A blueprint

an action that takes an Actor of a specific class and tries to treat it as if it were of a different class

• Animation

• Blueprint

• Component

• Casting

is a piece of functionality that can be added to an Actor

• A component

• A map

• An animation

• A volume

are a subclass of Actor and serve as an in-game avatar or persona

• Character

• a NPC

• Pawns

• Components

is a subclass of a Pawn Actor that is intended to be used as a player character

• a NPC

• an AI

• a Character

• a Player controller

takes player input and translates it into interactions in the game

• The keyboard

• blueprints

• a Pawn

• a Player Controller

an AI Controller

• Possesses a Pawn for a NPC in a game

• Unpossesses a Pawn

• sets the rules of the game that is being played

• Possesses a Pawn for a character in a game

is the state of a participant in the game

• a player state

• a game state

• casting

• level