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Unreal Multiplayer Strategy #24 - WASD Camera Movement

This is the 24th episode of the unreal engine multiplayer strategy game series we are working on. Here we are going to create a WASD input system which allows player to move the camera in the top down view. In this stratergy game template, player can already move the camera by pushing the cursor to the edges of the screen and the WASD inputs will allow player to interact with the game faster and with more precision by quickly moving the camera around the world

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Unreal Engine - World Engine #7 - Global Animal Spawner - Object Pooling

This is the 22nd episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Yesterday, we implemented a animal spawner which enables us to spawn animals in the world everywhere in the generated infinite terrain. SO, no matter where we go, there will be animals. Today, we are going to implement object pooling pattern to the system. This simply means, when player moves away from a certain area and the animals previously spawned in that area will not be required. But instead of destroying ...

Unreal Engine - World Engine #5 - Global Sea Level

This is the 21st episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Today we are going to implement a animal spawner which enables us to spawn animals in the world everywhere in the generated infinite terrain. SO, no matter where we go, there will be animals. In order to keep the system optimized, the system will only maintain animal characters in the area surrounding the player. The system supports multiple animal types and they will only be spawned in habitable zones. Later on...

Unreal Engine 5 Ledge Walk #2 - Enter and Exit

This is the 8th part of the creative in-game camera systems (Fixed camera/ rail camera)+ Constrained movement systems we are working on. In the last episode of this series, we worked on how to implement a system which allows player to walk on a narrow ledge that extends a very little room from a wall. Today, we will extent the same system to allow player to enter and exit the wall/ledge movement from  either side of the ledge walking section. We will also modify the animation blueprint t...

Unreal Engine 5 - Ledge Walk

This is the 7th part of the creative in-game camera systems (Fixed camera/ rail camera)+ Constrained movement systems we are working on.Today, we are going to work on how to implement a system which allows player to walk on a narrow ledge that extends a very little room from a wall. In regular movement, character will not be able to traverse in such a location. So, the character will have to either hug the wall or put back to the wall and then slowly move to the side while stepping on narrow ...

Unreal Engine - World Engine #5 - Global Sea Level

This is the 20th episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Today we are going to implement a way to control the global sea level in the infinite terrain system we have developed. This  will allow us to increase, decrease or disable all together the sea and sea level in the infinite terrain. This will control the sea plan, the wet level on ground and the beach size next to sea.

2023-12-25 05:16:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Introduction to Dynamic Mesh and Geometry Script in Unreal Engine

Today we are going to look into the basics of Dynamic Mesh component and Geometry Script plugin. Here we will see how to generate a mesh in runtime using UDynamicMesh component and do some basic operations such as  - How to select a subset of vertices from generation mesh

Unreal Engine 5 - Gap Squeezing

This is the 6th part of the creative in-game camera systems (Fixed camera/ rail camera) we are working on. Today, we are going design and implement a special camera and a movement system for Gap Squeezing. Gap Squeezing or Squeeze through system is commonly referred to the mechanism which allows player to move through tight spaces, or a crack in a wall to the other side. Sometimes, this is used as a hidden loading screen.

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Unreal Engine 5.3 - Enhanced Input Key Remapping(ALS #205)

This is the 205th episode of the unreal engine ALS based shooter series. In this episode, we are going to re-work on input key remapping menu. Due to some of the changes in enhanced input system in unreal engine 5.3, the remapping system we had previously implemented stopped working and now we are going to fix and restore that today.

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Unreal Engine 5 - World Engine #4 - Runtime Infinite Terrain LOD Transition

This is the 19th episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Today we are going to work on how to change the LOD level in the runtime as the player moves around in the world based on the distance to each generated terrain tile. As the LOD level changes, if player is moving closer to a tile, the polycount and the foliage density will be increased and as the player moves further away, detail level will be decreased. This will be a very important optimization step for the in...

Unreal Engine 5 - World Engine #3 - Runtime Infinite Terrain LOD System

This is the 18th episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Today I am going to implement a LOD (Level of Detail) system into the runtime infinite terrain generation system we have worked on so far. LOD system means, in the close range, we will render terrain tiles with a higher detail count. That means a higher polycount on the terrain tile mesh and a higher foliage count. And the tiles further away from the player, the detail level will be decreased gradually. This wou...

Unreal Engine 5 - Spiral Staircase Camera and Movement

This is the 5th part of the creative in-game camera systems (Fixed camera/ rail camera) we are working on. Today, we are going design and implement a special camera and a movement system for a spiral or curved staircase. Here, camera will be following the player from behind in a previously designed angle while player is moving correctly along the spiral staircase without having to correct the direction for player. As long as player keep W/ move forward input pressed, character will go along t...

Unreal Engine 5 - Voxel Island Generator

Today we are going to implement a voxel island generator. This video is based on the system we have already created for voxel world generator in the following videos. 

Unreal Engine 5 - Voxel World Generator: https://youtu.be/HVq_fNeKmw0 

Unreal Engine 5 - Hexagonal World Generator: https://youtu.be/PEPLe7QIhpg  

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Unreal Engine 5 - World Engine #2 - Infinite Ocean and Atmosphere

This is the 17th episode of unreal engine infinite world generation system.  Today I am going to show you how to enable infinite ocean and atmosphere in infinite world generation plugin. This will allow player to go infinitely anywhere in the world, but there will always be oceans and atmosphere.

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Unreal Engine 5 - Convert Procedural Mesh to Static Mesh

Today I am going to show you how to convert a procedural mesh into a static mesh. I am going to use this mechanism to convert the grass blades generated through code into a static mesh. So it would be lightweight for when stored in disk compared to saving as procedural mesh itself in the level.  As the grass is generated through code, each individual bled will perfectly match with the ground underneath and it will have all the features such as fertility level based growth.

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Unreal Engine 5 - Switch Between Fixed and Third Person Cameras

This is the 4th part of the creative in-game camera systems(Fixed camera/ rail camera) we are working on. Today, we are going to implement a way to switch between fixed camera systems and regular third person camera. In your game, there might be areas that you need to enable a fixed camera or a on rail camera and in some areas you might need the regular third person camera. This system may come in handy in such situations.

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Unreal Engine 5 - World Engine - Runtime Infinite Terrain Generation Plugin

This is the 16th episode of unreal engine runtime terrain generation system.  Today I am going to show you how to use the runtime infinite terrain generation plugin we have implemented in your projects. We converted everything we did into a plugin in last episode so that we can re-use the system in different project easily. Here I will demonstrate how to enable the plugin in your project and how to use your own assets to create infinite landscapes as you need. The features of the plugin ...

Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #10 - De-spawn Far Grass Tiles [C++]

This is the 10th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. We have developed a system to divide the world into tiles and spawn grass/plants/bushes in the tiles that are closer to the player. Today, we are going to implement a way to remove the instances of those already spawned meshes when player move away from those tiles. So, we will only maintain the grass meshes in the tiles closer to the player.

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2023-12-07 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Unreal Engine 5 - Preplanned Movement Directions for Fixed Cameras

This is the 3rd part of the creative ingame camera systems(Fixed camera/ rail camera) we are working on. Today, we are going to implement a way to pre plan the movement directions for the player character based on camera angles and level. That means, sometimes, designer may choose a camera angle which does not 100% align with the convenient direction the character should move when forward input is pressed. This can be a little confusing or irritating for the player and can be distracting from...

Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #9 - Multiple Grass Types [C++]

This is the 9th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. In last episode, we implemented a system to populate grass meshes in the runtime generated world we have created. Today we will work on how to use multiple grass types and how to implement rules to distinguish the areas where different types of grass grow.

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Unreal Engine 5 - On Rail/ Fixed Path In-Game Camera System

In this unreal engine 5 tutorial, I am going to show you how to implement a on rail in game camera system somewhat similar to the camera systems in early god of war games which follows the player showcasing what player needs to see without giving direct control of the camera to player. The camera will be moving on a fixed, predefined path based on a spline while maintaining a certain distance from the player.

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Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #8 - Tiled Grass Spawner

This is the 8th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. Here, we will be a system to populate grass meshes in the runtime generated world we have created. The world will be divided into tiles and in the tiles nearby the player, grass meshes will be placed. We will implement this system using a combination of C++ and blueprints where performance heavy parts will be handled in C++ so we can maintain an optimal framerate during tile generation.<...

Unreal Engine 5 Fixed Camera System

In this unreal engine 5 tutorial, I am going to show you how to implement a fixed camera system similar to games like early resident evil games or metal gear solid games. Having this type of cameras will help us to emphasize/enhance the feeling of the level the designer wants to evoke on players. The main features of the system we are going to implement here are - How to switching between multiple cameras in the level. - How to enable maintain focus of player.  - How to maintain movement...

Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #7 - Foliage Pooling C++

This is the 7th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. Here, we will be implementing object pooling pattern for multiple foliage types we have in our generated world using C++. This means, in order to keep an infinite world, as the player navigate through the world, further landscape tiles will be removed and new tiles will be added closer to the player. So, when this happens, we need to add new foliage instances of too. But in pooling patte...

Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #6 - Foliage generation With C++

This is the 6th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. Here, we will implement a C++ function to generate foliage in the runtime. This will enable us to achieve much better performance compared to BP version and allow us to access additional procedural variables from foliage types so we can do a more natural looking foliage placement simulation.

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2023-12-01 07:34:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Unreal Engine 5.3 Compass Bar Update

Here is an updated version of compass bar system originally implemented in ue4 and updated to UE5. 

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Unreal Engine 5 Jetpack - Part 3 - Multiplayer Replication

This is the part 3 of the Unreal Engine 5 jetpack tutorial series. Here we are going to work on how to replicate the jetpack system so that we can use it in a multiplayer game. Here we will look into how to replicate the jetpack effects and flying around mechanisms.

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Unreal Engine 5 - Runtime Foliage Generation #5 - Deterministic Foliage Placement

This is the 5th part of the runtime foliage generation system we are working on our infinite world system. Here, we will work on how to make the foliage placement deterministic. This means, every time we start the game, even though everything is generated in runtime, we will get the same world. So, foliage will be placed in the same way as the last session. This is important when we want to have some pre-planned level content/ areas in the game and also if we want to use this system for a mul...

Unreal Engine Car Race System - UE 5.3 Update

In this episode of the unreal engine 5 car race series, I am going to update the car race system we have been working on into unreal engine 5.3. This system contains following features, - AI driver cars - Customization garage  - Skid marks  - Nitrous boost  - Procedural race track

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Unreal Engine Spaceship Part 7 - Infinite World Integration

This is the 7th episode of the unreal engine spaceship system we are working on. Today we are going to integrate the infinite world generation system we implemented in the following series into the spaceship project. So, the spaceship will be able to travel over an infinite area of landscape. Player can stop the ship in air hovering above ground or can land on ground and exit the ship, then do some exploring on ground and take off again in ship.

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2023-11-26 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post