I ported owen to the source engine for fun.
He's about 99% coloured through materials in UE4, so I just slapped on 2x2 px solid textures just to get colour on there (it's got giant normals though).
this actually looks weirdly amazing?
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this actually looks weirdly amazing?
Someone remade the ballroom from the Assassin's Creed Unity trailer in Unreal Engine 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKSsTUm6QQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKSsTUm6QQ
Prophet Steve
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Standalone, that is the reason I shared them.
As a rule, programmers and animators are extremely rare when it comes to the Unreal Engine 4. If you find a proficient one, they probably already taken.
I can see why because getting animation in the engine is a pain in the ass if you are not using the Unreal animation tools for maya. And that only seems to make bipedal characters. Would love to hear about animation workflows for UE4.
No thats perfectly fine. Can you please tell me your workflow for getting custom rigs into ue4?
VicDaMoan03
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It was a while ago so I don't remember exactly. Just googling something like "Blender skeletal animation udk" should give you a lot of resources. Here are some I just looked up:
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/915556-Blender-to-UDK-rigging-guide-tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3QYCjX_vrg
http://pixel-butterfly.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-export-smooth-skinned-meshes.html
http://krisredbeard.wordpress.com/tutorials/tutorial-blender-to-udk-player-model/
If I recall correctly I just used FBX and it was all simple, but I don't know if there are any limitations there. Also be aware that some tutorials may be for old versions of Blender. You can experiment or ask at #blender on freenode if you have questions.
In UDK they could be emissive and get baked into lightmass I -think-. But it sounds like there were problems with that and it isn't in UE4.
I might have seen another thread about it, but I found this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/5498/question-using-emissive-for-lighting.html
*edit* There are no less than FOUR Epic employees idling in the #unrealengine channel at the moment. It's really nice to see that so people can ask questions or get feedback directly.
maniac-kun
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How usefull is Blender for creating art for a UE4 game?
Prophet Steve
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Am I missing something? Because Create Static Mesh does exactly that no?
Very useful, the industry standard is probably Maya, but is not really an option for developers without money. Although plenty of people that pirate it.
Oh, wow, I must have missed that button. I swear I even looked in that panel, lol. I even found this: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/6088/bsp-to-static-mesh.html
...but that is a few weeks old now. Awesome.
...but that is a few weeks old now. Awesome.
Prophet Steve
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Well, you need to expand it for it to appear, but ok, glad I could help.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
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Does UE4 allow digging caves and overhangs into terrain or is all terrain just height mapping? Are we still limited to using static meshes attached to terrain to make a cave/overhang? That's the problem Unity has. Would be nice to truly be able to dig anywhere at any angle instead of just raising and lowering what is essentially a giant flat mesh.
I would like to think it's the same or better than Blender with UDK, so it's probably still the best free option for 3D models, and almost certainly the best open-source option.
shacklesmcgee
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Found this on the unreal forums, its a sobel edge filter that you can add into ue4 to give a borderlands sort of look. Haven't tried it yet though
https://forums.unrealengine.com/sho...-for-a-basic-Sobel-Edge-Post-Process-Material
https://forums.unrealengine.com/sho...-for-a-basic-Sobel-Edge-Post-Process-Material
Prophet Steve
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You can make holes in the terrain to attach your static meshes to, so that is basically it. Does not work correctly now though.
That or multiple terrains.
NumberThree
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Worth noting that students get pretty much all Autodesk products (including Maya) for free.
Prophet Steve
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True, although officially not for commercial work. Although they probably don't mind too much.
What's currently broken about it?
Prophet Steve
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It seems to remove all the materials on the plane where you apply the hole. I expect it to be a fairly fast fix though. Or maybe I have been doing it wrong, but I thought I also saw it mentioned on the Answerhub.
Looks pretty neat, oh and LOL at those drive names.
Interesting way to organize your workflow.
It says every time you save that the models are not for commercial use. You can't even import them into the full version, they have to made again from scratch. I wouldn't recommend using it for commercial purposes.
Maya LT is available for £50 a month, £700 outright, its made specifically for game makers (all modelling and animation tools, no rendering or lighting).
But Blender is excellent for free, and GIMP will do a great job for texturing etc. I used BlenderCookie and this, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro to learn what I needed. I'm using Maya now and find it much better, but that comes down to if you can afford it (I'm using the student edition until I find my feet) and most importantly, preference.
Looks pretty neat, oh and LOL at those drive names.
Interesting way to organize your workflow.
Damn that looks really nice. They would just need to bump the colors up to be a little more vivid but it nearly has that Borderlands feel.
you can, the blueprint system is really powerful. Took me a weekend to create an Infinity Blade combat system using nothing but blueprint. It will never be as fast as actually programming it in, but for artists it's pretty crazy.
and later you can buy user made stuff from the market or? E.g. i read how one wants to build Mirrors Edge like jumping system and sell it as soon as the market is up for everyone. So maybe in 1year you can buy alot of stuff you cant do yourself in the market.
edit: still no paypal support <.<
I'm still very impressed by the technology, but a bit held up by the documentation.
Most of it, particularly the tutorials, seem to be aimed either at using the editor or using blueprints, and I don't really need a tutorial for that. And the introductory C++ stuff spends a lot of time teaching very basic programming things, and remains on a very shallow level.
I guess my use case (knowing very well how to program C++ and just wanting to learn how the engine ticks -- not just how to use it) is more rare than the one served by the blueprint tutorials, but it would still be nice to have some in-depth documentation which actually describes the core concepts of the engine. Like "these are the data structures, these are the essential threads and what they do, these are the core algorithms". So far, I've found that the best thing to do in that regard is reading the source code, but that takes a while for 800k lines in the runtime and 3m overall.
Most of it, particularly the tutorials, seem to be aimed either at using the editor or using blueprints, and I don't really need a tutorial for that. And the introductory C++ stuff spends a lot of time teaching very basic programming things, and remains on a very shallow level.
I guess my use case (knowing very well how to program C++ and just wanting to learn how the engine ticks -- not just how to use it) is more rare than the one served by the blueprint tutorials, but it would still be nice to have some in-depth documentation which actually describes the core concepts of the engine. Like "these are the data structures, these are the essential threads and what they do, these are the core algorithms". So far, I've found that the best thing to do in that regard is reading the source code, but that takes a while for 800k lines in the runtime and 3m overall.
shacklesmcgee
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Yeah, it seems to be more aimed to people like me right now, learning how to do materials and blueprints, not the heavy coding side. Its slowly getting better, but it definitely needs work. Google doesn't return any results yet for the wiki, and the tutorials that are there don't cover nearly as much as the videos yet.
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Thanks. That's a good resource. I'm learning blender and that has come in useful.
Thx, feel more motivated now
What software should i use for modelling entities and characters ? And textures ?
Was thinking of 3DSMax and Photoshop
Same problem Unity has.
That's the plan, at least the last time I talked to the guys at Epic. Personally I'm looking forward to the assets store, made some decent cash selling props at Unity.
Max or Maya is fine, Maya's integration is a lot stronger this time around. Textures? Photoshop and Mudbox.
I'm currently evaluating whether to port my game prototype ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePJGJxSugWM ) from Unity Free to UE4.
Still not sure how I'd do a tilemap-based level. I'd somehow need to load it into the editor from an external tilemap level xml file (created with Tiled for example) or something. As there currently are no editor plugin tutorials and barely any documentation, I don't even know where to start. Placing and rotating the tiles by hand in the editor would take centuries. I'm currently looking into mapping the level with bsp brushes, but that is much more limited and not as intuitive (even though my current tileset only consists of flat square floor and wall tiles). Does anyone here have an idea/suggestion?
Still not sure how I'd do a tilemap-based level. I'd somehow need to load it into the editor from an external tilemap level xml file (created with Tiled for example) or something. As there currently are no editor plugin tutorials and barely any documentation, I don't even know where to start. Placing and rotating the tiles by hand in the editor would take centuries. I'm currently looking into mapping the level with bsp brushes, but that is much more limited and not as intuitive (even though my current tileset only consists of flat square floor and wall tiles). Does anyone here have an idea/suggestion?
Create a c++ class derived from actor which represents your tile-based level. Give it a string property in which you store the level xml file name. In its startup event you can load the xml file and spawn the tiles at their respective locations (of course you need to import the tiles first). Then you can drag a instance of that class into the editor, set the level name, and it will load the level allowing you to work from there.
(I spent this most of this weekend figuring out how to do level generation from external data in the engine. This is the best I've come up with so far, but I certainly can't claim that it's the one true method!)
A few things driving me crazy that should be extremely simple to solve
Is there anyway to snap geometry besides End key to snap to floor ? For example, placing a wall.
Also, for example. Im making a stairs, and if I use the scale mode on them they expand proportionally in the view port, is there a way that i can scale only in the direction of my mouse on the selected axis ?
Also, if i increment the number of steps on a new stair i placed and rotated 90 degree, as soon as i add 1 step it rotates back to original position and its infuriating that i cant solve that
quick edit: also when i rotate some stuff the axis remain referencing to its old state so X in the details tab is Y in the viewport
Is there anyway to snap geometry besides End key to snap to floor ? For example, placing a wall.
Also, for example. Im making a stairs, and if I use the scale mode on them they expand proportionally in the view port, is there a way that i can scale only in the direction of my mouse on the selected axis ?
Also, if i increment the number of steps on a new stair i placed and rotated 90 degree, as soon as i add 1 step it rotates back to original position and its infuriating that i cant solve that
quick edit: also when i rotate some stuff the axis remain referencing to its old state so X in the details tab is Y in the viewport
Sounds like a good approach! But is the startup event even called in the editor (and if yes, when exactly?)? I thought that would be called when the game loads. And if I edit the level xml outside the UE4 editor, how would I tell the editor to reload the level (i.e. call the method in the actor class)?
The editor will call that startup event when you do in-editor playing/simulation. There's also an event in-editor that fires whenever anything is placed or edited, so you could have the class load your XML during that and touch it each time the XML is edited, I suppose.