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From PM Angel

Thanks to all the artists who have helped me so far, I have made an official discord, and the link to it, my spreadsheet, and my figma are on the doc. You can submit art there but email is also still fine (just slower). Also here are some of the highlight cards thanks to you all.

Also here are clearer rules that are posted on the discord.

-The images need to be 250px Width and 100px High (or in a scale of that but larger).

-It must be a PNG or JPG

-Can not have any transparent parts

-Must go with the name of the card (the attack/ability is ok if not shown on the card)

-It can be any art style, pixel, digital, or hand-drawn (scanned or something similar) as long as it meets the requirements above

-Don't forget to enter the name/username you want on the credits in the artist column on the doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ax9Hm8B7iMeTifwDxqvTC0FLcC6EdfLRW3N7PPJ1Q5o/edit?usp=sharing

Start your day with a warm-up

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Assassin-s-Creed-Shadows-physical-copies-leak-early-players-already-uploading-gameplay.966389.0.html

Summarize and share your thoughts on leakers. Why do you think they do it? If you had the chance, would you? Have you ever gotten media before it was released?

Back in the day, I knew a guy who worked for Toys R Us (RIP) and he sold me a Playstation 2 and Tekken week before it came out. It was a glorious week.

Have your games open and ready to work please

What are you learning?

Weapon System, changing animations, importing meshes.

Why is it important?

This is the start of everything. We are building a game so it is important that you follow along. If you start going on your own and fall behind, it is unfair to stop the class because you chose to do your own thing. If you are confident that you know what you are doing, I have no issues with you moving on your own but you will be held accountable for the project.

How do you show that you understand? What is the assignment?

Follow along and build the game.

Add another instance of your cube and platform in the game

Another heavy day... let's stop here and continue next session

Go back to the platform BP

In your variables, click the + to add a new variable

Name the variable destination

Make it a vector

Vector variables contain X,Y & Z Positions

In the details panel for the variable

Check Expose and Spawn

Instance Editable

Show 3D Widget

Compile, save and go to your game

You now have a Widget we will be using to control the platforms

YOU MUST MOVE YOU WIDGET BEFORE YOU SCALE THE PLATFORM!

In the platforms BP under components, select InterpToMovement

Delete the control points we created in the details panel

Select Construction Script

This is different from the Event Graph

The event graph codes the functionality while the game in running

The construction script runs components so it can spawn a mesh for example

Drag your InterpToMovement on the construction script

From the output of the InterpToMovement, pull out Add Control Point Position

Connect the output of the Construct Script tp the input of the InterpToMovement

We still want the position to be 0,0,0 where we set it

Copy and paste the InterpToMovement node and the Add Control Point Position Node

Connect the output of the original Add Control Point Position to the input of the new one

Drag in the Destination Vector (Get Destination)

Connect the vector to the position input

Now the Platform starts at 0,0,0 and ends wherever you place the widget (hopefully)

Move the Gizmo and test

Time for some bad guys

Go to blueprints > right click > blueprint class

This time we will select a character

Name it BP_Enemy

Open up the blueprint

In the character BP, there is automatically come components included

There is a Collision parented, two child components, a directional arrow and a character mesh along with character movement

With the mesh selected in components, add the SKM_Manny_Simple

The animation class will be ABP_Manny_C

Move it -90 on the Z axis so the collision surrounds the mesh and rotate -90 degrees on the Z axis so that it is facing the arrow

Compile and save

Go to your game

drag an instance of the enemy in your game

Time to create movement

Open the event graph on the enemy bp

Delete the nodes that come automatically in the blueprint except Event Begin Play

Add a custom event by right clicking in your event graph and searching custom event

Name the custom event Chase Player

From the Chase Player Output Node, pull out (call), and create an AI Move To node

From the Pawn Input, pull out and find Get reference to self node

The Self node is the enemy

From the target actor input node, pull out get player character

Set the acceptance radius to 120

The acceptance radius sets how close an AI will move to the actor or destination vector before stopping

From the On Success Output on the AI Move To Node, pull out and add Chase Player Node

From the Event Begin Play output, pull out a Chase Player Node

So what is happening here is that when the game starts, the enemy is chasing the player

Once the enemy gets within 120 units from the player, it stops and checks again to see if the player is more than 120, if it is, the enemy chases again, if it isn't, it checks again and again in a loop

Compile, save and test

Nothing happened... how disappointing

The reason the AI Movement isn't working is because the game has not mapped out the routes or paths for the AI

To calculate these paths, click on the add or + > volumes > Nav Mesh Bounds Volume

A new NavMeshBoundsVolume will be created in your outlines and a wire frame cube will be in your game

This is the area that will be calculated

Reset all the values on this new volume

change the scale to 50,50,50

You can see with have the entire game covered

Press P and you can preview what area the AI will be covering

Save and test

Notice the enemy will now move, just not well

Go back to the Enemy BP

With the BP_Enemy Component Selected, search for Yaw in the details panel

UNCHECK Pawn > Use Controller Rotation Yaw

Yaw is the Z position and rotation in UE

Select the Character Movement in the components

Find Character Movement (Rotation Settings)

Check Use Controller Desired Rotation

Now the enemy should rotate smoother

compile, save, test

Applying Animations to the enemy

Open up Enemy BP

Select the mesh in the components

Open up the content browser

Open Content folder

Create new folder called Enemy_Animations

Open the enemy animations folder

Right Click

Animation > blend space

Select the SK_Mannequin

Name it EnemyBlendSpace

Open it up

In the Assets Details

Change

The name of Horizontal Axis from None to Speed

Maximum Axis Value from 100 to 600 (in the Enemy Blueprint, you have the speed set to 600)

In the Asset Browser find the MM_Idle animation

Drag it to the left side of the timeline

In the Asset Browser find the MM_Run_FWD animation

Drag it to the left side of the timeline

If you pause the player and hold CTRL, you can scrub through and see the change from idle to run

Open your Enemy_Animations Folder in the content drawer

Right Click > Animation > Animation Blueprint > SK_Mannequin

Name it APB_Enemy

Open the Animated Enemy Blueprint

In the Asset Browser, search for the EnemyBlendSpace

Drag it in your AnimGraph

From the EnemyBlendSpace Node, pull out and add Slot"defaultslot" node and connect between the two nodes

Promote the speed input to a variable by right clicking on the input

We are going to use almost the exact same nodes we used in the shotgun event graph

Open your Shotgun Animation Blueprint

Copy all the nodes and paste in the enemy ABP Event Graph

In the ABP_Enemy nodes, we are casting to the character

We don't want to be casting to the character, we want to be sending the information to the Enemy

So grab the output from Try Get Pawn Owner and add Cast to BP_Enemy

Delete the Set Character and change to Set AS BP Enemy

Right click on the AS BP Enemy and promote to variable

Drag the AS BP Enemy on the Character Variable to replace it with Get as BP Enemy

Go to your Enemy BP Viewport and select the mesh

Change the animation class to ABP_Enemy_C

Compile, Save, Test

Enemy should be animated now

We are going to add a second collision to the enemy for the attack

In the enemy BP, add a sphere collision

Change the size of the sphere radius to 250

We are going to set the collision so that when the player overlaps this collision, the enemy attacks

Go to the event graph and add On Component Begin Overlap (sphere)

We are in the ENEMY BP right now so we want to cast to the Character

Pull out the output node from other actor and add Cast To BP_ThirdPersonCharacter

Move the Chase Player Node down by the Cast Third Person BP and disconnect from event begin play

Connect the output of cast to BP third person to the input of chase player

When the enemy moves from idle to run, it looks sketchy so let's modify the enemy blendspace by increasing the weight

Change the smoothing time to .01

It's time to eliminate our enemy

Open the bullet BP

Break the link from Event Hit to Destroy Actor

Pull out and add Apply Damage Node

Connect output of other to Damaged Actor

Connect Apply Damage output to destroy actor

THE ACTOR IS THE BULLET NOT THE ENEMY

Make the base damage 10

Now we will create a health system for the enemy

Open the enemy BP

Right click and create an Event AnyDamage

We will create a new variable that will hold the health (we did this in Gdevelop)

In the My Blueprint tab

Create a new Variable

Name it Health

Make it a Float

Drag it in your blueprint

Set Health

Connect your Event AnyDamage to the Set Health input

Drag another instance of the Health variable but use Get Health

From our GET Health variable, pull out a subtract or -

Connect the damage output from event anydamage to value of the minus

Connect the output from the minus to the input of the set health

What is happening here?

When damage is taken, it gets the health number from the health variable then it subtracts one and sets the new health variable number

From the set, pull out a branch node

We want to make sure there is still a number in the health variable or if it has reached zero from the minuses

Drag out the health variable and select Get

We want the condition of the branch to be that health is less or equal

Pull out from the health variable and add Less Equal node

Connect the less equal output to the condition of the branch

If the condition of the health being 0 or less is true, we want it to be curtains for the enemy

Drag the Character mesh out and pull out a new node Set Simulate Physics

Connect the true output of your branch to the set simulated physics

Check the SIMULATE box

Select your Mesh on components and find collision in the detail panel

In Collision presets choose PhysicsActor

Compile save test

Right now we have our health variable set to zero so when we shoot the enemy and it subtracts one then runs the check on < or = to zero, it is true and sets off the death physics

Select the Health Variable in MyBlueprint and change the Health value in the Details panel to 100

Compile, save, blast the bad guy