UMG: Change weapon panel

July 18, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 10 Comments

This will be more advanced post but you will learn a lot about UMG->Blueprint communication. Here are my goals:

Draw all slot weapons informations,
Change weapons from UMG panel,
Will work on PC and Touch,
Player shouldn’t be able to choose weapon which don’t have ammo,
Player should see which weapon is currently equipped,
When choosing weapons do slomo and DOF effect,

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UMG: Adding materials

July 16, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / Leave a comment

This will be quick and easy tutorial but I need to be sure you guys know that you can add materials to your UMG widgets.

Just one simple goal:

Make health and armor bar more attractive,

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UMG: How to create icons from 3d assets

July 15, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 9 Comments

Working alone on a game is really hard sometimes. For example I’ve bought K-Spree GUI and I don’t have weapon icons for UI. I would like to show you guys how to use Unreal Engine 4 features to create icons from 3d meshes.

Goal: Create weapon icons from 3d assets,
Have one level to configure everything to create icons,

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UMG UI: Draw current weapon information

July 13, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 1 Comment

In this post I will focus on creating another UMG widget which will:

Let me know how much ammo do I have in mag and backpack,
Let me know when I’m reloading weapon,
Will be implemented as UMG pipeline was created,

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UMG UI: Draw player health and armor

July 12, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 11 Comments

By this post I will start UMG HUD tutorials series. What I would like to accomplish in this tutorial:

Display player health,
Display player armor,
It should work well on all platforms and mostly on VR,
It should be optimized for mobiles,

Let’s start!

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As indie should I work with Publisher?

July 2, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 7 Comments

Lot of my indie friends ask me if they need publisher to make success and what’s the pros and cons working with them. I have experience in both developing a game with a publisher, making a game for publisher and being publisher for developer.

In this post I will try to give you guys tips about this topic. It will be first post in Indie Development Tips category.

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Sci-Fi environment assets list

June 28, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 2 Comments

During next posts I will focus on creating environment for the in-game. To do this I’ve bought new computer which will come early next week. That’s why I was so silent lately 😉

In this post I will focus on showing you how I’m searching for assets. Post will contain other assets packs that might be useful for you guys.

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Create Rocker Launcher

June 23, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / Leave a comment

This will be the last weapon from Military Silver Pack implemented. Basically BaseWeapon is finished now and adding new weapons is really easy.

What’s new in this post is camera shakes which can be used on explosions or big weapon fire effect.

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Creating Sniper Rifle

June 22, 2015 / andrzejkoloska / 6 Comments

As I wrote earlier will try to implement all of the weapons from Military Silver Pack. Next in line is Sniper Rifle. Again we would need to implement new functionality to BaseWeapon – second fire. In this case second fire will trigger sniper scope.

Sniper Rifle should have zoom and sniper scope functionality,
I want to have “bullet time” effect triggered sometimes, (camera chasing bullet),
Use BaseWeapon functionalities to drive the weapon,

Lot of new stuff coming here.

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