Blueprints inside Unreal^? Engine

Essentially, a blueprint makes everything in the game logic clear and easy to follow. When creating a game with UE4, a blueprint does exactly this: makes writing code or game logic much easier.

If you have had the chance to work with the free, limited version of Unreal Engine 3, which was UDK, you will know that the scripting inside UDK was based on one of two things: either using the scripting language called Unreal Script, or using Kismet.

The Blueprints system in UE4 is almost the only, and certainly the most common way to build game logic efficiently and fast. It is the new version of the old system in UE3 called Kismet, that was not efficient when it came to refactoring the logic for different levels inside the same game. The engine supports C++ game code as well, but in that case I would not consider it as scripting, as C++ cannot be a scripting language and is pure programming!

With a simple graph of four nodes like the following one, you will be able to save the time taken to write code. The following graph says that:

To write similar code in any programming language, you would spend 10 minutes and write at least 50 lines of code, but with a blueprint, all that you need is 4 nodes and 5 seconds of your time! For more efficient usage of the blueprints system, if you are a programmer, you can write your own blueprint node in C++ that executes a set of functionalities. This will save you the time taken to connect several nodes or write lots of code multiple times.