As stretch goals, you can try making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 3.Something that spawns other blueprints<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 4.Something that follows the player<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 5.Something that changes with user input<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
For the fundamentals, I planned to make elements that I already had in mind for my indie dev game. I’ve connected the project to github using the built in source control however this apparently isn’t ideal, and it’s better to just set up the unreal project as a repository in github after creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI programmed a mechanic where the player spawns in a projectile on a keybind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nScrollwheel changes the selected spell used when firing a projectile, using an enumerator to change the selected spell and a select to get the right class when firing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nUsing AI and a navmesh, I’ve set up an punching bag enemy that follows the player around. When they’re within a certain distance from the player, a yellow warning light activates. When the enemy is hit with a projectile it stops moving and activates a red light for a few seconds before chasing the player again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTASK 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As a minimum, try and implement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n- \n
- 1.A new input for the player \u2013 such as dashing or crouching<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 2.A new actor that is spawned through the player \u2013 such as a fireball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
As stretch goals, you can try making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 3.Something that overrides the controls from the player \u2013 such as a remote-controlled missile or a hot air balloon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 4.Something that reads an actor\u2019s properties to output different actions \u2013 such as a coin sorter<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 5.Something that drops \u201cloot\u201d when it\u2019s destroyed \u2013 such as an enemy or a chest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
For 1. I’ve made a dash where on input, an impulse is added to give the player a burst of speed in their current movement direction. I didn’t have the best understanding of movement vector math so I just multiplied the current vector to get a new value. To apply a maximum speed, I check if the new speed is greater than the maximum speed and if is then it will use the maximum speed float instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nLooking back, A rather silly flaw in this logic is that I’m comparing the new speed to the max speed, and applying the max speed as the impulse which results in a speed which is higher anyway? I was very silly making this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. is already done with the projectile attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
for 3. I made a spell that the player can control, I haven’t worked out how handle the rotation and movement that well of the projectile but still, when the spell is cast the a function is called which disables and enables input to player with fed in toggle bool, it’s called when the spell is cast and again when the spell ends. (This uses delays, it would be much better with timers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most recent branch is UniTemporaryDev, I’ve loaded that now which has the more recent changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhen the punching bag enemy is hit, it takes the material from that projectile and applies it to itself for the stun duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhen the enemy is stunned, it drops a block of gold that can be picked up and adds to a gold score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTASK 3<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As a minimum, try and implement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 1.Some functions that change the blueprint\u2019s appearance when conditions are met \u2013 such as a timed colour change<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 2.Some functions that are used as \u201csetters\u201d and \u201cgetters\u201d for other blueprints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
stretch goals, you can try making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 3.A function that can manage multiple actors \u2013 such as a scale manager for all characters<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 4.A function that throws away actors that get near it \u2013 such as a bumper car<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 5. A function that moves actors to and from preset locations \u2013 such as a portal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
I don’t have to worry about 1, as this was met when tackling the last task.
For the Remainder of the fundamentals, I’ll start to refer to some aspects of my indie dev game.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor 2, I’ve got a function that sets the player’s mana on a timer to regenerate overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor 3, I have a start button where once pressed, it gets all wall actors in the level and starts a timer on each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For 4, I made a brick that does not want to be touched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt has a large sphere collision and on overlap, it drastically raises the actor’s height<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nfor 5, I quickly made two new blueprints, Portal A and portal B<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nRather than use a pre-set location, I can easily change the teleport point by moving portal B. There’s an in-world reference between these two locations for the player. I think this would work better with a cast however in order to have backup code for what happens when that cast fails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTask 4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As a minimum, try and implement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 1.Something that tracks the player\u2019s health<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 2.Something that counts down an ability cooldown \u2013 such as jump frequency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
As stretch goals, you can try making:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \n
- 3.Something that can change the world \u2013 such as buttons to change the player\u2019s material<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 4.Something that resets the worldstate \u2013 such as a restart button<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- 5.Something that tracks progress of a goal \u2013 such as a pickup tracker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
For 1, in my indie dev game I’ve got health + maxhealth floats set up on the player character, it can be tracked visually on the player’s HUD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor 2, my indie dev game also features a dash ability programmed difficulty with a do-once limit that resets after a delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI’m not sure but for 3, I think the walls may count for this as the walls are part of the game environment and the start button triggers a function for all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4, My indie dev game features a restart when the player dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n5. indie dev game is also tracking gold, xp and score earned from killing enemies as well as a depth gauge alternative to a timer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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