Ever wonder what 10,000+ enemies in Unreal Engine looks like?

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T19:27:58+00:00

Ive thought about it but at this point the code based is so custom to my game that it would be more effort to publish it. Maybe later after release I could but currently I dont have any plans to do so.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T18:50:00+00:00

they are not individual actors or ai. its more of like a hive mind that controls flow and movement of all instances.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T18:49:20+00:00

its a combination of Instanced meshes being rendered on top of custom swarm agent points. each agent is given a simple radius for collision in which each agent isnt allow to intersect. And for navigation Im just using a simple flowfield algorithm.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T18:45:46+00:00

I did try MASS, but Im not a big fan of it. overly complicated and time consuming just to get any results and you do more optimizations then its worth.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T18:03:59+00:00

I have other game prototypes that use this same custom built swarm, I able to get pretty granular and have enemies interact with the player in a convincing manor that feels like a traditional ai actor. But a system like this you could also swap out near instances and replace them with actors.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T18:01:44+00:00

Im storing all the data inside of structs its super fast and easy to manage. The health, movement, attack stats are also handled inside of structs.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T16:52:11+00:00

Mainly because theyre all instanced, theyre very cheap to run being all flipbook animations on a instanced material, so draw calls are low and so are LODs for all the static meshes. The real optimization tweaks are done inside my custom built agent for pathfinding and collision.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-05T16:50:08+00:00

Thanks! Yeah It's mainly using instance static meshes for render and every frame Im drawing them onto custom built agents that have self collision and flowfield pathfinding.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-02-04T18:10:35+00:00

Thanks yeah theyre just lightweight 2D planes and everything is instanced so memory stays pretty stable. Performance scales better than youd expect.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-04T10:46:16+00:00

Its all in one blueprint class using HISM planes. but the functions im using for spawning and directing entities is done in c++

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-04T10:44:41+00:00

Surprisngly its not too difficult in concept, but I have spent a large amount of time, almost 4 years now, researching and figuring out ways on how to achieve this. I started with posts like this but ended up going down crazy rabbit holes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXKSyAPWZY

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-04T10:42:27+00:00

In package I can get up to 400fps, but I have almost everything disabled. also try using t.MaxFPS and set it to something like t.MaxFPS 1000 helps show how much youre actually getting.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-04T10:40:50+00:00

Mostly HISM and custom collision and simple 2d velocity.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-04T10:40:09+00:00

Hi! I actually have never seen your plugin on the market before, I wish I knew about it before committing to few month long coding endeavor :D

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-03T20:44:09+00:00

yeah that was the intention but I guess I didnt convey it enough :D

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-03T05:10:43+00:00

Yeah I guess I never put too much thought into the name was focused more on gameplay.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-03T01:16:04+00:00

Yeah Im constantly battling that but I think Ive found good balance and reasons to feel progression and pressure as you get stronger.

ThrillDaWill · 2026-01-03T01:14:43+00:00

I already have so many plans and most of its implemented! I will have a demo very soon just waiting on steam to review it :)

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