Lost Depths UE4 project

JordanW · May 2014

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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 · May 2014

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

IchII3D · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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

Xendance · May 2014

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

AtticusMars · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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 · May 2014

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

ae. · May 2014

awesome! cant wait to see where this goes

Lost Depths UE4 project

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