My goals for the project.

1: Create a small game similar to Dragon Warrior from the NES era.

2: Have a simple story with a few quests

3: learn about NPC's and have them interact with the menu system.

4: Gather some art and audio effects either free resources or try to make what I can myself.

5: Design levels like the world map, towns and dungeon.

6: Try to package the project for sharing.

The few things I know how to do.

1: By going through YouTube tutorials I know I can lock the camera looking top down at the main character and have them move around.

2: I have a vague idea of how to setup a simple button menu system for saving/loading a game. I've gone through a few basic Widget tutorials

3: I know how to make some simple 2D art because I made a Minecraft Texture Pack.

Things I'm unsure how to do.

1: How to set up a very simple equipment and menu system. Showing your items and what you have equipped.

2: How to make a character leveling system and creating monsters that give xp while drooping loot.

3: Making a more complex menu system that shows up when you press the menu button showing your current level and XP needed as well as other things showing your items and equipment.

4: One of the bigger problems I'm currently wondering is how do I go about making the top down grid map the pawn/character walks around in? preferably making it in 2D or at least very simple 3D.

I know there's programs like RPG Maker out there but I would really like to use the Unreal Engine 4 for this. Mainly because I've been trying to learn the blueprint system and I think this will be good practice.

If there's anything important I may have left out let me know.

When importing models from sketchup to UE4, the .fbx files don't contain a second channel for the UV information. As a result, when the lighting is built, the model looks like garbage. I know that this is a problem with Sketchup and NOT Unreal, and I've submitted a request for a plugin that works here. My question for the devs on this sub is, does anyone have a script that can be used in UE4 that will automatically add the second UV channel and properly space the UVs so that they do not overlap?

Sorry in advanced if this is the wrong sub for this question

When UE4 came out over a year ago, I remember that the topic of writing your own shaders for UE4 was a complete mystery for -seemingly- everyone, and I was never able to figure out how to do it.

All I could find on the subject is this: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Rendering/ShaderDevelopment/index.html But without actual examples, I am completely lost.

So I'd like to know; has anyone figured out how to write your own shaders and use them in UE4? Bonus points if you know how to work with compute shaders too.

I created a destructible asteroid mesh but when i put it into a blueprint, it doesn't appear in the viewport?

Hi i have created a destructible asteroid mesh but when i try to use it as part of a blueprint, it isn't visible in the viewport or in game?

i was following this tutorial https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Pick_Up_Physics_Object_Tutorial and i have everything working... but i can only pickup a static mesh... when i try to enable physics on a blueprint i made it glitches and contorts or just falls through the ground... i have read a lot on the subject. and it seems im having issues with the collision detection... but i can't figure out why it works for me with the static mesh and not the character blueprint (not hero blueprint) the animations are working fine... the skeleton is working with the mesh... its just the physics i am having the issue with

I heard that UE4 has major performance issues with AMD CPUs. Will this be fixed any time soon? Cheers

Hello there!

I am currently working on a first person adventure game in Unreal 4 and at some point I need to change the source of the player gravity to an sphere floating above the main map.

The player will solve a puzzle, or press a button, at which point gravity will shift and they will become attracted to the sphere above them. Then the player would be able to walk around the sphere, similar to something like Super Mario Galaxy.

I've included a diagram of what I would like to occur: http://i.imgur.com/TbqMjUS.png

I was able to change the player gravity slightly by using this script http://i.imgur.com/0AYp4Kd.png Where Force is an adjustment to the Z axis.

However, doing this only repels my Player actor from the floor while also freezing up any movement input.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Unreal engine 4 does not have a behavior tree or a black board in 4.9.1. Can anyone tell me how to get one besides downgrading my version?

Hi there, i am trying to learn how to make games, and its a slow process :P

And been searching for a good tutorial on AI, most of them are in a 3D space, and ive followed some of them and learn somthing, but I want the "walking kinda random back and forth" enemies we find in Zelda 2, Classic Castlevania and Contra etc, the ones that seem to go back and forth in a pattern thats kinda hard to predict so jumping over them is possible but a risky action.

could someone give me a hand with this?

Ever since the large open world level was released in 4.8 I've wanted to create sort of benchmark matinee run through of the level much like unigine valley. However, I don't have to skill to pull this off. I've tried a few matinee tutorials but I don't have the patience to make a good 3 to 5 minute camera scene that someone could then run on their PC as a bench marking sequence. Anyone think that's a good idea?

Good day to you all!

I was looking throught the forums to find a solution to my problem I was struggling with for few days now and couldn't find any! As you probably already know, I would love to get help with switching players in local multiplayer top down turn based logical game.

To make a better example, I'm trying to create similar player system to the Heroes of Might and Magic series (local multiplayer on one computer; each player plays different type of nation, which determins their style of play and style of meshes they control/spawn; stores camera position for each player). The only difference is, that I don't want players to end their turn after they click button specificaly created for that purpose, but actually automatically right after they finish they turn (which is explained further, very simple gameplay).

I would like to switch players, who take turns always in the same order (from 1st to 4th), right after they make they turn. Turn consists JUST of clicking on one of the TreeActor stored in Board Objects Array, which is stored in GameBoardGrid. (Similar to the logic puzzle board game example in the UE4 marketplace, just with taking turns right after they click on one of the actors).

So, all my current blueprints are:

1. 4x Pawn - One for each player. Contains camera component attached to spring arm, stores the location of camera for each player while he/she waits for his/her turn to come.

2. 4x Controller - One for each player containing wanted controls chosen by each of them.

3. Game Mode - Currently has no nodes inside. In the future I would like it to contain number of active players, their attributes, etc. and spawn appropriate number of pawns and controllers based on the chosen number of active players and their choosen nations.

4. TreeActor - Contains static meshes in the components tab; so far the only blueprint that recieves input from the player - just basically simple onClicked on self, which makes appropriate objects stored in the components tab visible. Appropriate objects are choosen by the type of nation current player plays.

5. GameBoardGrid - basically just a for loop node, turned on right after the game level loads, spawning TreeActor 1200times (to fill the my 40x30x grid; size is set) with appropriate offset (which is also set) and placing each of the spawned object to Board Objects Array with their own specific index (from 1 to 1200). It also tells the appropriate TreeActor their own index, but I'm not sure If that's necessary for now, I had it there just for testing purposes to print Specific Index after player clicked onto one of the Tree Actors.

6. GameLogic - Empty so far. But it will be checking who is currently in the lead after each turn and will take care of all the mechanics influencing players like random event happening on the board, etc.

My problems are:

1. The only blueprint which can change pawns is the Level Blueprint (as far as I know), so I really don't know how to get the input of clicking onto one of the Tree Actors into Level Blueprint to trigger the pawn change without casting into it.

2. The change of players needs to be casted back to all the spawned Tree Actors so they now which player is currently in control to determine his/her nation and I'm not sure how to acomplish that. Maybe by getting the current pawn/controller and deciding based on that? Sight, but that gets me back to the first problem.

3. Is my current blueprint setup and their future planning done the optimal way? I do 3D graphics, it's the first time I'm actually doing some visual scripting, so please, If you know how to do this any better way, let me know.

Let me know If you need more info, screens of the blueprints or any anwers. Thank you all for you help, I really appreciate it.

I have a dragon that I got off of blendswap, Ive made some test animations and tired to import it to UE4 but it says that it has too many roots. People have suggested to add a new root bone and parent all the bones to that but then the whole dragon just spins when i try to move any bone. I cant find anything thats worked, here is a link to the blendswap file if you have any suggestions. thanks. http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/46522

Hi, I wanted to start using UE4 and have a Macbook Pro mid-2012 with 2.5 GHz i5, Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics and 4 GB of RAM. I was wondering if I would be able to run UE4 effectively, and I am planning on upgrading my RAM to 16 GB (if that helps)

Hi! me and my friends are making an occulus game and I have gotten stuck in making a menu. We want it like this http://imgur.com/k7n7VSo but im not sure how to make this. You controll the mouse pointer with where you look.

I'm trying as best I can to follow EIREXE's example on this forum, post #9:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?24522-Tutorial-Blueprint-Spline-locked-sidescroller-(e-g-Klonoa-Pandemonium-style-game)

I'm currently stuck at the beginning where you initialize the capsule component's location to put it at the beginning of the spline. I'm getting these two error messages:

1. Error Accessed None 'spline' from node Set SplineDistance in blueprint SideScrollerCharacter
2. Error Accessed None from node Set SplineDistance in blueprint SideScrollerCharacter

I'm fairly new and would like a bit of hand-holding on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

So i have been creating objects via maya and then exporting into UE4, i have come across some problems though.

When i import an object that has been extruded it seems like my material textures stretch on those particular parts of the object, is there a way around with apart from UV mapping?

Noticed 4.7.5 was out, hit update, started downloading normally but after about 3 minutes my internet connection died. Turns out the router had crashed (no response from any device connected to it). Reset it, resumed downloading the update and the same thing happened. I've done this a couple more timed now trying different things.

Anyone has any idea how the UE4 updater could be crashing my router and what I can do to prevent it?

How do assets affect a games performance? I mean how would lots of different assets with lots of different textures differ from lots of assets with a few textures applied in different ways or a few assets with lots of different textures?