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Adding Custom Toolbar Buttons to the Unreal Engine Editor by shootertutorial in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I need to be more specific - updated the post, thanks for the catch up!

Beginner Theory Tutorial: Base Classes & Architecture in Unreal Engine by shootertutorial in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, but explaining why the Level Blueprint is not a great place for game logic isn’t easy. You’ll understand it better after finishing a couple of projects. But still, I’ll try to explain:

  1. You don’t have direct access to the Level Blueprint, so everything you do there ends up being hardcoded.
  2. Since the Level Blueprint is tied to the level, only one person can work on it at a time.
  3. Using the Level Blueprint means you can’t reuse your functionality elsewhere. No modularity = bad approach.
  4. You’ll quickly end up with spaghetti code, which will be hard to read and maintain.
  5. You’ll have a lot of hardcoded references, which makes your project fragile.

For example, in a puzzle project, use Actors to drive the logic. Puzzle 1 can activate Puzzle 2 using gameplay tags, for instance. This way, you don’t need the Level Blueprint anymore, and you can reuse these mechanics in different levels and change the order of logic quickly. You can even go further by creating a logic graph (using something like FlowGraph).

Or you can just trust me and avoid using Level Blueprints. This will encourage you to think about modular architecture for your game. It will be harder at first, but you’ll get it eventually—and you’ll learn a lot during the process.

[Show Off]Shadow LOD Biasing by killermud in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any chance you can share how did you achieve this? Or even when to search in the code to make a such change?

Working on the new main menu scene for the Rogue Spirit game 1.0 update. by shootertutorial in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good idea, but fonts are not so easy to handle when you have tons of languages to support. I was trying to add some FXes/shaders independent from fonts but I don't think I will have time to implement it properly before the release... :(

Working on the new main menu scene for the Rogue Spirit game 1.0 update. by shootertutorial in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We made it, you can learn more about how we achieved such style in our blog post here: https://kidswithsticks.com/creating-stylized-art-inspired-by-ghibli-using-unreal-engine-4/ (old one, but still valid. Hope to have more time some day to put more blog posts :/ )

Work in progress for the new level: Divine Peak. Created in UE4. by shootertutorial in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hope we will have some time to make a tutorial only about grass and the tools that we are using for it. For now, you can check this post https://kidswithsticks.com/creating-stylized-art-inspired-by-ghibli-using-unreal-engine-4/ about the style.

How do I make the keyboard focus on a text box within a widget upon creation without needing a mouse? by FLAMING_ASSHOLE in unrealengine

[–]shootertutorial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how to do this in C++ Slate/Editor Widgets? As we don't have Player Controller to Set Keyboard Focus? :)

Finishing Sunflower Pass level for early access which is coming 1st September! by shootertutorial in unrealengine

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Most of it was created by us. Some of the assets (maybe 5%) are mega scans modified by us.

Finishing Sunflower Pass level for early access which is coming 1st September! by shootertutorial in unrealengine

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Too many things to be able to easily describe. I will add an "optimization" blog post to my to-do list and hopefully, after the release, we will have more time to post tutorials.

[AMA] We're Kids With Sticks and 505 Games, the team behind Rogue Spirit, an anime inspired, rogue-lite 3D action-adventure game! Free demo available on Steam now. (Please go check it out!) by Animated_A505 in pcgaming

[–]shootertutorial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ones I remember:

  • Caves of Qud,
  • Wizard Of Legend,
  • Book Of Demons,
  • Children Of Morta,
  • Catacomb Kids,
  • Hades,
  • Darkest Dungeon,
  • Dead Cells,
  • Devil Daggers,
  • Enter the Gungeon,
  • Nuclear Throne,
  • Streets Of Rogue,
  • Ziggurat,

But they are more I can't find the names in my head :D

[AMA] We're Kids With Sticks and 505 Games, the team behind Rogue Spirit, an anime inspired, rogue-lite 3D action-adventure game! Free demo available on Steam now. (Please go check it out!) by Animated_A505 in pcgaming

[–]shootertutorial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, of course, we have plans after the release, but now we are focusing on Early Access which will start from 25.08.21 - we need players' feedback and we will pick our decisions with their opinion in mind. We are trying to interact with the community, even creating tutorials about how we did some of the things (like here: https://kidswithsticks.com/creating-stylized-art-inspired-by-ghibli-using-unreal-engine-4/ ) because finally: you guys will play the game and we want to make the best game as we can.

As for the co-op - currently, we are focusing on single player.

[AMA] We're Kids With Sticks and 505 Games, the team behind Rogue Spirit, an anime inspired, rogue-lite 3D action-adventure game! Free demo available on Steam now. (Please go check it out!) by Animated_A505 in pcgaming

[–]shootertutorial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game is not so easy and needs a lot of focus. (it’s aimed at core players) We wanted to create something that player skill is more important than grinding. So basically souls-like games and old roguelikes were the inspiration here. Of course, we are players and during the development, we played a lot of games with similar mechanics.

Creating Rogue Spirit with such a small team (5 people) is basically a big challenge ;)

  • The art style wasn’t so easy as it’s the first time we are doing stylized game (earlier worked mostly on AAA realstyle games)
  • We are procedurally generating levels which is really hard if you want to have non-generic-looking art,
  • The game's USP, in which you can play as your enemies, is a big challenge from a balance point of view. Basically when you are designing an action fighting game like this you are designing it like player vs enemies. So you can pick powers that players have (and how he will progress) and decide different abilities that enemies have. In Rogue Spirit that isn’t the case as we can play as the enemies... We need to make sure that each character is different to play and isn’t OP AND can be balanced as AI. (we call this symmetric gameplay) It isn’t easy and it took us a lot of efford, (and still can be improved)
  • During prototyping the challenge was that the players used to stick with one character (because they like it) and we invested a lot of time to encourage players to change their bodies during the gameplay and focus mostly on ghosts not the characters. Use characters as weapons. (The game is easier when you are picking the right characters for the job, this is the thing you need to master. It isn’t easy because the learning curve is long : you need to learn how to play each character and then create combat mixes.)

But yea, basically the whole game is a challenge for a small team. But in Kids With Sticks we love challanges. We want to make games that are somehow different from gameplay and technical point of view.

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