Pem's Code BlogDecember 2021

Portals, moving platforms, laser sound

Moving platforms. Character + bombs + lasers go through portals (smooth transition). Simple sound cue for the laser shot.

Portals is from – https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/portals-blueprint

Features:

    Portal blueprint
    Smooth transition through portal
    position, direction, momentum, and scale transformed through portal
    Compatible with Character and rigid body actors (should work for nearly anything that can overlap)
     Wall Walking non-Character BP with portal-compatible third person camera (from Unscher)

mepem37 :: 2021/12/31 (Friday, December 31, 2021) :: Bomber Fight, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

Bomb throwing etc

XBox One controller Y throws bomb in analogue stick direction; X shoots laser in analogue direction.

The bombs don

mepem37 :: 2021/12/28 (Tuesday, December 28, 2021) :: Bomber Fight, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

Bomber Fighter updates

Did some updates including:
* made a simple 1v1 fighting map

* tested IP networking with a hobby project teammate Spiffy (requires port forwarding on router and sharing IP address)

* looked at advanced sessions though I didn

mepem37 :: 2021/12/28 (Tuesday, December 28, 2021) :: Bomber Fight, Unreal Engine :: No Comments »

Bomber Fight

The HeroQuest project has been a good learning experience, though I want to get some exposure to other parts of Unreal Engine. One of my college game projects (halcyon days) was a bomber man esque game – http://mepem.com/resume/M3.html , so my next game idea is basically a simple bomber man fighting game starting from the platformer template.

Also, HeroQuest is using git (bitbucket). But for this project, I decided it would be fun to setup a perforce server on AWS for this starting from – https://youtu.be/7eVO0qXC3nk .