I subscribed to UE4 a couple of weeks ago now, and I'm loving it. I've never done anything like this and know nothing about programming, I come from an art/animation background. Pretty excited at the possibilities!
Anyway, I have a q for anyone that is familiar with importing/exporting animations between UE4 and the UE4's ART plug-in for Maya:
After saving an animation through the ART plug-in as an .fbx and closing down Maya for the night, I come back to it a day later and re-import the same animation, but all of my main key-frames are now lost in key frames set
at every frame. I'm guessing this is because you have to import it as mocap data? Is there anyway around this, allowing you to load up an animation, keeping your original key-frames intact? (if I haven't described this well enough I can update with pics later at home.)
Also, another q: Sometimes when I import an animation back into ART/Maya the curves for some of my rotation attributes in the graph editor are now locked in straight angles (they were nice and smooth spline tangents at the time of saving), and I can't smooth out the curve in any way for some reason. :/ What's going on here? It's always just the rotation attributes too.
EDIT: Think I might have solved both issues by not using "Import/Export FBX" at all, and instead using "Import/Export Anim" exclusively from the start. You'll hear from me again if it doesn't.
So I've been attempting to wrap my head around Blueprint a bit more and programming in general since I'm going back to school for it. Right now I'm trying to figure out how I can spawn a pre-made room onto a location when I walk into a door. Anyone have any ideas how I could achieve that?
Been playing this table top game called Betrayal and it gave me some cool ideas for a stealth co-op horror game that turns into a vs match half way through.
I remember seeing this during my hunt for tutorials. It might not be exactly what you're after, but it might give you an idea anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZVTsZ5iK8
