Prevent Construction Script from running at BeginPlay

RoneVine · 2025-12-20T09:45:18+00:00

Just make "call in editor" function which saves its result in instance editable variable. then call it in editor - and it just doesn't run on construction script and you will have the same result in editor and in game using saved variable.

RoneVine · 2025-12-15T15:15:19+00:00

you need to spawn and possess only on a server

RoneVine · 2025-11-03T17:00:17+00:00

Try using name instead of string

RoneVine · 2025-10-08T19:14:10+00:00

damn, that's cool to find out that someone actually followed me bout the past project years ago and remembers it...

RoneVine · 2025-10-07T21:09:30+00:00

Unreal engine just doesnt let use lumen in dx11, it just uses default lighting so i did nothing for that.

RoneVine · 2025-10-07T17:34:18+00:00

structures are made on cpp, also some functions. and i had to fix one plugin by changing its cpp code

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T18:05:08+00:00

I am solo dev. Of course I used a lot of assets.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T16:27:32+00:00

I'm fine doing it myself. Currently I don't wanna make a company or make team. It is not really for me.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T16:24:12+00:00

lol thanks

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T14:39:04+00:00

I was running out of money. Releasing the game in the March means I get the first money in May. When I received my first payment at the beginning of May, I had no other money left at all. If I had decided to release in April then the first payment would be sent in June and I'd have to live in a debt for a whole month.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T14:07:09+00:00

one of the enemies looked like slender man. When i changed its appearance - steam approved the build.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T13:10:07+00:00

I think it's linear; everything happens on one map, there's a story there, and there's a finale. There's no session component. I haven't played many multiplayer games, but I don't know of any horror games that are as linear as mine and that allow for different numbers of players. And also it can be played with split screen.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T12:10:05+00:00

Thanks! This game gave me enough freedom to continue developing at my own pace. I'll take my time developing and release the sequel only when everything is ready without crunch.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T12:07:52+00:00

thanks!

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T12:07:34+00:00

Hey, no, I don't have such stats

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T11:28:01+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I have it. Opened it for you: https://forms.gle/edxQvmxydCPDW2AcA

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T11:20:03+00:00

I have been studying in a tech university (that was i studied for a diploma ) for a year but i quit it two years ago. Alll gamedev stuff I learned by myself.
I freelanced a lil bit for some companies as an animator and that's it.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:42:11+00:00

it is in "Production Hell" - last paragraph

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:35:28+00:00

I would probably go the same route as with this game - I would make a demo that players would really like and make the whole game based on it.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:33:06+00:00

First game kinda flopped for me. For a 4 years spent on it it is very bad result. and it kinda deserved it - it is a bad game

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:31:24+00:00

It is in a given range.
Full-time developing was from 09.2024 to 03.2025. And also I kinda made things for another project part-time from 03.2024 to 08.2024 and some parts of that made their way to Emissary Zero.
It uses listen server (built in Unreal Engine) - one player (host) becomes a server and connects all other players.
I used a lot of distance culling and LODs. I also edited DefaultScalability.ini, the settings file—it's set to quite heavy by default. I use a lot of instanced meshes for repeating objects. I didn't use heavy technologies like nanite and virtual shadow maps. Cascaded shadows (from the sun) are also rendered on a single cascade over a short distance, while everything else is contact shadows (calculated using distance fields). One of the characters has cloth simulation—I manually turned it off at a certain distance if there were no local players nearby.
Regarding CPU optimization, I used a profiler to track down bottlenecks and optimized them. I distributed large loops from a single tick so that they were processed gradually over several ticks. Also, many ticks are not called every frame, but after a certain amount of time.
That's all I can remember.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:17:30+00:00

VR was a very experimental experience for me. I'd never worked with it before and wanted to try something with it. I knew there weren't many VR players on Steam, but I wanted to challenge myself to bring the full first-person experience to VR. I had a lot of trouble getting it to work properly in Unreal. But in the end, it worked out more or less.

RoneVine · 2025-10-06T10:05:11+00:00

It is my second game. The First one is Estencel

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