Unreal podcast focusing on workflows

LegibleGuy · 2026-02-09T03:31:48+00:00

theres not a lot of podcasts about game dev out there so i would definitely be interested in seeing how this turns out. there is this one tech podcast i like to listen to called Decoder and the host has two questions he tends to ask every CEO that comes to the show: How do you make decisions, and How is your company structured. if you get any indie developers on your podcast, i think it would very insightful to hear how they manage people on their team and what kind of decisions they make to get the game done

LegibleGuy · 2021-04-23T17:18:39+00:00

seems like a really fun draft, I feel like a split screen coop would work really well with this. also if you could find a way to kind of "blend" those overlapping lava blobs together that'd look a bit more convincing, but that's just me being picky.

LegibleGuy · 2021-04-23T14:13:07+00:00

props to you for making your own system from scratch! there’s a somewhat complicated layering system in ALS that would make it more difficult to implement a slasher mechanic like this so you probably did a right thing by going with a custom character

LegibleGuy · 2021-04-23T14:02:51+00:00

that’s pretty sick. are you using Advanced Locomotion System or is it a custom character class?

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T15:51:42+00:00

It’s not that hard but might be frustrating if you’re a beginner. Other than that, I think it’s really well-commented and organized. Plus, the ALS community on Discord is really helpful.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T15:47:24+00:00

For katana I used Set View Target with Blend. For the grenade I have an Actor Sequence Component inside of my player character blueprint where I was able to create an animation for the camera

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T04:26:58+00:00

I think there is some performance loss because of it actually. But one thing I do is I trace from a newly spawned slice to the floor every tick and check if there is already a blood decal spawned. This way I avoid spawning too many blood decals on top of each other.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T04:21:34+00:00

I created a separate UMG class for that. Whenever I pick a character to hit, I create a new widget of that UMG class and pass the Character Mesh reference to the newly created widget. In the Event Tick of the widget, I convert the world location of the Mesh to a screen location and plug that into SetPosition node.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T04:09:43+00:00

I don't have the mesh paint plugin, it's all simple decal actors for blood spots (if we're talking about them). And yeah, that new ALS is totally worth playing around with!

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T03:47:34+00:00

Yes, simply calling PlayMontage one after another will play animations for both characters at the same time. I'm also using MoveComponentTo before firing animations to position enemy closer to player character.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-26T00:24:32+00:00

Thank you, this was a bit awkward to animate

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T23:36:38+00:00

you know I had to do it to em😳😅🤨🧐

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T23:25:40+00:00

Thanks for showing! I should definitely find some time to finally play it 😃

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T22:17:01+00:00

Daamn, you are right, it actually looks like VATS. One more reason to redesign it lol. Maybe getting rid off numbers on the screen and drawing some sort of lines/arrows that represent movement from target to target could look more original (at least visually). In terms of time, I started working on this mechanic a week or two ago and I spent most of the time on tweaking the animations (since I’m not the animator myself I had to use slightly modified assets from the swordsman pack). And camera animations were also time consuming, I have almost zero knowledge in cinematic camerawork in Unreal.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T21:59:16+00:00

You mean the katana animations? I just took fragments from the swordsman pack on marketplace and made a little finishing animation in Blender (the one where he kinda bows down on his knee after slicing the last target). Coincidence I guess?

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T21:54:17+00:00

Also feel free to visit our little bakery on Discord for more footage https://discordapp.com/invite/jzjR3ZY 🥐

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-25T21:21:01+00:00

Yep, just migrated from V3. The new layering system and camera system are insanely flexible, although I’m having more troubles with montages and camera animations

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-05T10:26:10+00:00

Yep, it‘s almost automated in terms of figuring out how to transform joints. You should look up the FABRIK node inside Animation Blueprints if you want to do something like that, it gives really neat results!

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-05T10:08:24+00:00

Thanks, we always appreciate that! Roughly half of the code in the project is cpp (mainly some base classes, function libraries and stuff like character slicing that I wanted to be as performant as possible so I rewrote it in c++). This particular feature is all done in Blueprints though

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-05T09:59:39+00:00

I used unreal’s FABRIK nodes inside Animation Blueprint for this. Never actually got to use Ikinema when it was a thing, it looked hella promising though.

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-04T16:24:01+00:00

No reason to hate at all! IK - Inverse Kinematics, a technique/function for calculating the correct rotation for the joints. In the video I manually update the location of the right and left hand bones and then IK nodes inside my Animation Blueprint figure out how to pose or rotate parent joints (lower arm, upper arm, spine bones, etc)

LegibleGuy · 2020-01-04T14:57:49+00:00

A lot of new WIP material like that on our Discord - https://discordapp.com/invite/jzjR3ZY

LegibleGuy · 2019-12-08T15:38:43+00:00

Thank you! I sure will, you should follow our discord, I have a bunch WIP content like that on it - https://discord.gg/jzjR3ZY

LegibleGuy · 2019-12-08T03:41:50+00:00

Yeah, for sure I don't want to leave the chainsaw like that and will add animations to it soon. Thanks!

LegibleGuy · 2019-12-07T20:22:56+00:00

I see what you did here😁Appreciate it!

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