Lost Depths UE4 project

JordanW

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Here's a small UE4 project I've been working on in my spare time.

I started with the FPS blueprint template and built from there. The player character BP has jump, dodge and run. I also added camera shakes to all of the movement. There's only one melee attack for the player and the art is super-proto. The enemy uses behavior trees for the AI, has 3 attacks, 2 hit reacts.

The map shown is just my small AI testing map. I wanted to make sure I could get some combat going before I actually build any encounters.

Mr Smo

nice! reminds me of old school fps corridors wit ha call of cthulhu theme

IchII3D

Awesome! Love seeing stuff like this. I haven't had chance to use UnrealEngine yet, was this done in C++ or some form of graph? Do you have much programming experience? I ask because I was learning UnrealScript a few months back playing around, was thinking of refocusing on C++ now this is out. When I find time :P

JordanW

It was all done in blueprint (node graph). I have programmed but it was more than 7 years ago. Blueprints are incredibly powerful in UE4.

In UE4 we've removed unrealscript and everything is either C++ or blueprints.

Intro to Blueprints:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRhWc2kAhqI&index=60&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gaCL2XjKluO7N2Pmmw9pvhE

Jeff Parrott

One man game studio over there! What you have looks great. Can't wait to see where this goes.

Xendance

Looks cool, your melee combat model is already on par with Skyrim.

AtticusMars

Can I ask how you were able to roll the camera?

I tried setting up a camera tilt for strafing blueprint but I had to use the roll input controller instead of setting the cameras rotation which created a lot of problems when I needed to figure out where the camera was in order to roll it back to a neutral position that I wasn't able to solve.

It looks fantastic by the way, seeing your videos in waywo is what made me pick up UE4 and (try to) learn blueprint and it's been a blast

JordanW

I'm using a camera shake to do all of the camera movement. I dont have access to my build right now but i could post a pic of the BP logic. Basically i get what direction you're jumping/doding and use that to set the direction of my generic jump shake.

AtticusMars

Oh man that would be awesome when you get a chance! I didn't mess with the camera shake, will have to take a look at that

JordanW

Here is how I calculate my dodge + camera shake.

Here is my calculating my dodge direction:

Applying dodge to launch and my custom camera shake function:

here is my custom camera shake function


To make a camera shake asset create a blueprint with the parent class camera shake.

MoP

Loving this stuff Jordan, thanks for sharing the blueprint overview too, very insightful

ae.

awesome! cant wait to see where this goes