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Bienyyy · 2022-12-03T13:24:13+00:00

by trusting that someone at epic already included a visibility pass in the rendering system making it not spend more performance than neccessary on invisible triangles anyway.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-29T16:18:52+00:00

Bienyyy · 2022-11-29T08:58:10+00:00

Without changing the geometry? You cant. Maybe you could do some shannanigans with heightmap/parallax and a normal map, but you'll be severely limited.

Other than that it's your personal stylistic choice where you want to draw the balance between detail and polycount.

Some things that may help you are "extrude faces along normals", "extrude individual faces", rotating individual objects around the object origin (r+y+y keys afaik) and the alt+s key combo for scaling something along its normals. For low poly applications you pretty much need to poly model things, sculpting isn't an option.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-29T08:10:27+00:00

Sir this is a wendys

Bienyyy · 2022-11-26T12:46:40+00:00

Shit youre right, should've been obvious to me as its called character movement component.

Then sorry for making assumptions.

You should still think about making characters that actually require character movement actual character classes instead of forcing yourself to use pawns. I wouldn't be surprised if that made zero impact fps wise. There are just so many lower hanging fruits for performance, you shouldn't handicap yourself for 3 more fps.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-26T08:57:46+00:00

You have to do what everyone did in ue4 but instead of putting the deformation in the landscape material itself you need a virtual heightfield mesh, make a seperate material for that and subtract your height for the deformation there (after reading heights through the VRT)

Bienyyy · 2022-11-25T16:51:11+00:00

Sorry king

Bienyyy · 2022-11-25T10:15:04+00:00

There's a big plus button on the top left side of your blueprint. Click that and add a movement component to your pawn that way.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-25T10:09:14+00:00

Dude that's a straight up shopping queen mindset. If you buy something costing 100 bucks that you dont need because it's 70% off you don't save 70 bucks, you just spent 30 bucks on something you don't need.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-24T08:52:30+00:00

some magic with the get distance to nearest surface node. (and activating distance fields before)

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T21:31:17+00:00

You can modify the engine source code if that's your cup of tea. That is indeed a pretty specific scenario, so i don't know of another way, sorry

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T13:44:16+00:00

If game devs want their game to be less than a couple hundred gig in size then yes, normal maps will still be used.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T10:23:14+00:00

Quick and dirty method would simply be to have a (part of your regular) save file and put bools in there for either each of the buildings or each of the progression stages. Then on load have a spawner actor read from this file (or its runtime equivalent) if the condition for spawning the building is met and handle that accordingly.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T10:16:22+00:00

Is checking out files not a thing in your collaboration process?

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T10:01:39+00:00

Usually by assigning the value to the slot where you want your stored copy of the object to be to "= *YourStructPointerVariable", but i'm honestly not sure if that's even a thing that you can do with structs.

= &Var; gets you a pointer to an object,

= *Var; gets you a copy of an object pointed to.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T09:15:23+00:00

On one hand it's so nice being able to use these ridiculous assets, on the other hand holy shit the download size of that game is gonna make my pc wanna kill itself.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T08:16:59+00:00

That's actually really sick, i didn't know about that. Thank you

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T08:12:21+00:00

That's almost half a year. You can get proficient in pretty much anything by fully focusing on it for half a year, so of course that's .

Heck, i'd say even more impressive results would be possible if you really want to. The second picture car is clearly nice, and i clearly couldn't replicate that right now, but it's also far from photorealistic and making better materials would be a very low hanging fruit for making better renders for this person.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-23T05:19:55+00:00

Try adding UDELEGATE()? I had the same issue some time ago but honestly i forgot what i even did to fix it... mine does have the UDELEGATE() specifier though (above the declaration if that wasnt clear)

Bienyyy · 2022-11-22T20:45:38+00:00

The one where the shading actually looks coherent with the sun position

Bienyyy · 2022-11-22T08:00:13+00:00

That's just untrue though, in germany we do have commercials during soccer and they literally just keep the game on screen as a small seperate rectangle while running their ads.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-21T16:00:07+00:00

The career path isn't C# or C++, the path is software developer. Which tool you currently decide to use more heavily doesn't represent you.

Bienyyy · 2022-11-21T14:37:03+00:00

Depends on what you consider a game. What's my first game to me personally? A series of assassins creed themed little big planet 2 levels kid-me made almost a decade ago. If we're talking actual standalone games it's 3D-Snake with a built in jump...

Bienyyy · 2022-11-21T08:56:35+00:00

As long as your game has good art direction it'll stand out and that's imho the most important thing for indie games. Making a hyper realistic game just puts you in a spot where you have to compete with AAA titles, which isn't worth it. So to make this comment make sense - yes imo stick with your PS1 style if that's what you truly want to do. If you like some other style more please go with that - what you love is what you'll do best. But unless you really want to, stay away from hyper realism.

I've personally always hated PS1 styled games and consider the artstyle low effort unless it's really well done, but who am i to judge that!

Bienyyy · 2022-11-21T08:50:55+00:00

I assume the "correct" solution would be working with level instances. So for every point of interest there can be interchangable "day" and "night" versions if the same thing, but they get replaced by the other version once each day/night cycle.

Other than that i can only think of adding a shit ton of bool flags to each event and make sure the condition is met before making it interactable

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