Yes, ShooterTutorial book will be free for everyone and available in web! (using Confluence as engine)
Today ShooterTutorial has been granted for Microsoft BizSpark. Basically I have got lot of support and you know what? Knowledge should be available for free.
Book will be different than blog. I have learned a lot and will focus more deeply on newcomers. Hope to share first chapter soon but… I still need to finish some tutorials 😉
Big thanks to Microsoft!
I was really busy lately closing The Collider 2 that’s why I haven’t posted anything.
The Collider 2 is really fast game. Here you can see how I’m playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6_8VQNgClg
It is supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift as well.
I have tough decision to make and I would like to ask you guys for help. As you may already know after finishing ShooterTutorial blog tutorials I will start working on full featured Unreal Engine 4 e-book which could be named “Learning UE4 by example: First Person Endless Shooter”. This will be big thing as I would like to learn every piece of UE4 tools that is needed to create such game…but let’s get back to decision.
As I’m doing more stuff in C++ lately I would like to ask you guys to answer simple question. Implementation in the Book should cover only Blueprints or proper usage of C++ and Blueprints?
From my point of view it should cover both C++ and Blueprints as it is proper way of using Unreal Engine 4 but the final decision will be based on your answers.
I have added poll at side bar. You can find it there!
If you want to iterate quickly you need to have good debug tools. In this Tutorial I will use knowledge from Set/Get Variables to draw widget with list of variables. Basically if you want to show an variable you need to print it out, or create custom widget for specific Actor. Thanks to Debug Component:
This can be achieved using C++ only but as always it will be super easy! (learn UE4 C++!)
This time I will focus on another requested tutorial about RTS camera movement and unit movement. In this tutorial I will create:
Remember – you can always request tutorial!
Before I will move forward with perks I would like to show you guys how to get, set and increase variables (floats and ints) by name. You don’t need to have reference to variable to make operations on it.
In this tutorial I will create global functions that can:
Again I will use C++ for this and as always it will be super easy!
After first playable demo I have encountered lot of problems with ShooterTutorial gameplay. I would like to fix them all but first I need to have a way to quickly iterate balance of the game. In this tutorial you will learn:
I will do this using C++ but it will be very easy!
I’m after TKGameJam 2016 and I have another proof that you can do a lot in Unreal Engine 4 in small amount of time. Game was created by me, @smallshake and @ogniok with special thanks to @politko! We haven’t had any graphics artist in the team.
Dive into madness in this fast paced taxi simulator. You have ten seconds to get your clients to the destination or else they won’t pay you!
Game can be downloaded at GameJolt.
I would like to show you guys couple of pipeline decisions we did. Maybe it will be helpful for you.
I’m finally at point where I can show the game and get some feedback. I can call this as First Playable Milestone. The great thing about ShooterTutorial is that I’m doing it totally live, freestyle without any preparation. You will be able to see and analyze whole development process.
Basically in normal environment you should be able to get to this milestone by 2-3 days work playing only with placeholders. It took me 9 months (!!!) to get to this point as I’m doing lot more stuff than usually and 90% of my time consumes tutorials.
Currently my enemies are just disappearing. ShooterTutorial will be ported to Mobile some day and I want to be sure that my ragdols can be turned off as soon as possible. That’s why I will add nice dissolve effect. Which should be:
Creating ShooterTutorial takes a lot of my free time.
If you want you can help me out! I will use your donation to buy better assets packs and you will be added to Credits /Backers page as well. You will get final game and book for free!
Implementing game is taking time but writing about it is taking much more effort!
Or by:
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