Creating Gameplay Balance System – Part 3 – Supporting all enemies

January 17, 2016September 14, 2022 / andrzejkoloska / 4 Comments

I have created Pattern Manager and now I need to support all enemies to be able to reset properly. Remember – the goal was to not spawn / destroy enemies – instead just resetting the values. I will go through all enemies and make sure that:

Mesh ragdoll is getting back to animation,
Mesh is attached to capsule component with the same translation as it was on Begin Play,
All necessary timers will be disabled as well,
Tick will be disabled when enemy isn’t active,
Refactor the enemies as it was long time ago I had created them,

So let’s go!

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Summary Screen

January 10, 2016 / andrzejkoloska / 10 Comments

In this Tutorial I will focus on basic summary screen and game loop:

Showing player score and hi-score,
Saving hi-score,
Communicating between widgets and game to create simple loop main menu -> gameplay -> main menu,

Stats and leaderboards will be added in separated tutorials as I will do much more complicated stuff there.

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Creating Gameplay Balance System – Part 2 – Patterns and Manager

January 4, 2016January 4, 2016 / andrzejkoloska / 2 Comments

In last Gameplay Balance System post I was writing about fun. Now it’s time to actually implement patterns and manager. In this tutorial you will learn how to:

Update enemies to communicate with patterns,
Fast create patterns using UE4 components,
Manage enemies – without destroying / spawning actors,
Select which pattern should be shown to player,

This will be the first tutorial where I have done Live Streaming for you guys. Let’s move forward!

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Complete Skyrim like inventory Tutorial

December 15, 2015December 16, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 107 Comments

I’m getting a lot of request to create Skyrim like inventory Tutorial. I have found you guys have a problems with ShooterTutorial inventory implementation as well. ShooterTutorial inventory is about choosing weapons before starting gameplay. That’s why I have decided to create complete Skyrim like inventory tutorial which will:

be object oriented,
starting from first person template,
have 3d preview in UMG,
support item dropping, using,
support categories,
support moving items,

This tutorial is long and not so easy. As always take your time!

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Creating Gameplay Balance System – Part 1 – Fun

November 23, 2015May 19, 2020 / andrzejkoloska / 1 Comment

This won’t be typical tutorial. I want to share theory with you about gameplay balance:

Hi level of creating gameplay balance system,
Why it’s needed,
How it should look like?
…and much more

I already have some early gameplay prototype:

Let’s break it to pieces.

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How to create icons with alpha?

November 19, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 2 Comments

You already know how to create 2d icons from 3d meshes. Now it’s time for more realistic icons that have alpha as well.

They will be used in next tutorial covering weapon selection screen.

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You can request tutorial!

November 8, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 7 Comments

The goal of Shooter Tutorial is to motivate you guys to learn game development. I know that shooter example which I’m creating won’t fit for everyone. That’s why from now you can request a tutorial!

Requested tutorials will be added to UE4 Tips category. They won’t be visible in Tutorials – which is place for entire shooter game tutorial.

You can tell your friends I will be doing requested tutorials once a week! I’m hoping to get lot of requests from you guys! Cheers!