You should try using the Spline tool to dictate Sonic's plane of movement. Sonic Unleashed-Generations does this. Someone else managed to get spline-based path following in UE4.
Tried hard to get it beyond where I was before but there are big problems with the collision that I cant figure out. I have it running on delta time but anything under 60fps makes Sonic go through floors.
Feel free to mess around and test things. This may be the last iteration of this version of the engine before I just go back and restart from the ground up.
Hope this helps, and good luck. Credits to NibrocRock for the Model.
Hi,
I can't seem to get this to work - the link goes to a page where I get the Dropbox error 509. Is this model/animations combo hosted elsewhere? I'm trying to get something going with Unity 4.
Also, nice looking game so far! How's Blueprint compared to traditional coding and Unity when it comes to things like user input and controlling characters?
Blueprints are vastly easier than coding any sort of programming language/scripting. Think MMF2's event system but much easier in terms of seeing final results.
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I've also seen that Sonic lost World has been cracked. If anyone can provide models/animations from that, I can get to working on putting them in the engine myself.
There's nothing C++ can do that you can't do with Blueprints in terms of this engine.
Anyways, I've worked on the collision and I'm happy to say I have successfully made it more stable. I'll be releasing the change soon once I upgrade it to UE4 4.7.2
This post has been edited by StreakThunderstorm: 08 March 2015 - 11:37 AM
StreakThunderstorm, on 08 March 2015 - 11:36 AM, said:
There's nothing C++ can do that you can't do with Blueprints in terms of this engine.
I don't know about that man .. but yeah not trying to start any debates.
I have my doubts on how solid the end results of the blueprint system is vs raw coding.
This post has been edited by Andrew75: 11 March 2015 - 09:23 PM
StreakThunderstorm, on 08 March 2015 - 11:36 AM, said:
There's nothing C++ can do that you can't do with Blueprints in terms of this engine.
I don't know about that man .. but yeah not trying to start any debates.
I have my doubts on how solid the end results of the blueprint system is vs raw coding.
As I see it blueprints are good for prototyping since you get live feedback. When you have the complexities of this system, where you're basically creating your own pawn class entirely, it might be smarter to switch your final work over to code, or at least the backbone of it. Downloading Unreal Worlds, I get 40FPS max with some stuttering, plus the movement code EASILY teleports you into walls. I'm pretty sure this is mainly due to the vast amount of code done in blueprint which, keep in mind, is still a scripting language.
That said, this is all still really impressive. Just unfortunate about the aforementioned going-into-walls and frame chugging issues (the latter might just be me? Except that really shouldn't be an issue especially when I delete the more intense polygon objects... that and the stage is simple as is).
I haven't updated the build. I fixed the teleport into walls at lower framerates.
As far as blueprints go:
I've been actively engaged in the epic community. I watch the twitch streams and I partake on the forum. Epic has clearly stated themselves that there is little to no difference in what blueprints can do in terms of in-game stuff like movement and collision. You can make an entire game in blueprints completely. When you start getting into advanced things is when you may need to code it yourself if its not already part of the engine. Although Sonic seems to be hard to get a grasp of, its really damn simple in terms of what is needed to actually make his movement work. Any issues with the movement itself is most likely due to my own errors and not knowing how to set things up. For example, I made a really big difference when I moved the movement and collision system into a loop. I didn't know the proper way to make epic's loops work but once I finally understood, I boosted the framerate on my own machine from 60 - ~85 with less teleporting into walls.
I will be uploading and releasing Sonic Unreal Worlds alpha 0.8 very soon.
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