Empires on UE4 (A collaborative project)

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  1. Vdragon

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    Shouldn't be there like design documents or a list some text that explain how the whole thing is going to work?
     
  2. Deiform

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    From past experience, it's generally not a lot of use to design something when you have nothing. It's better to get off the ground by proving all the concepts before designing anything.
     
  3. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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    And that is where you are wrong, sorry. You need to have a design document to at least write down those concepts you want to prove. Otherwise nobody is going to know anymore how stuff was supposed to work a few weeks or months in.
     
  4. Deiform

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    Well that's up to debate I think. 'Wrong' is a very objective statement for a subjective topic. In theory it is the correct choice to have a design document, but in practice you end up burning out before doing anything. The main reason previous projects that attempted to do this failed was because they spent way too long on the design document. Kylegar has written a todo list which I think is enough for this moment in time.

    Hell, it's a pet project about 2 days in, what's the point designing anything so soon?
     
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  5. Jephir

    Jephir ALL GLORY TO THE JEPHIR

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    I agree with Deif - what happens when you release a design document is that everyone starts arguing over irrelevant details and it sucks up your time having to respond to everyone's concerns.
     
  6. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    I am writing down a roadmap of things that need to be done. Anyone with code experience can step in and poke around and see if they can make things happen. In reality, I'm porting Empires. Not really adding anything new until 'Empires' is done. After that is done, the first thing I want to do is add a Titan Mode, but others can add things to their branches if they want. Hell, I might even merge it in if it's well designed and fun.

    I'll probably break it down into 3 categories: Code, Art, Design. Code is C++ code that needs to be written, art is capable of being done with someone who knows how to model or texture, Design could be done by anyone who knows how to use the Unreal editor. I wrote down a bit in a post above on what needs to be done for now, which is like a weeks worth of work.

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    Anyway. I added the Animation Sample Pack from the UE4 marketplace. It's free and can be used in any project. An artist can retarget the animations to the skeleton of the srcpires characters to these animations.

    A Designer can probably hook up the prototype model to the 3rd person skeletal mesh component of the character. Some code needs to be done to add Crouch/Prone/Jump, but the animations should hook up pretty easy. A designer can prototype it with Blueprint until a coder has a chance to make it in C++.
     
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  7. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Roadmap is up:



    I'll be keeping this updated this as people contribute. If there is something you feel you can do, please don't hesitate to jump on it and make it happen.
     
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  8. D.D.D. Destroyer

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    How does one create a map for this?
     
  9. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Get an Unreal Engine license (either buy paying $20bux or doing the student pack linked in the OP)

    Download the engine

    Clone the Empires repo

    Open the Empires project in the Engine

    Choose A or B

    A: Quick Start: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/QuickStart/index.html (Skip create a new project, you are opening the Empires project instead)

    B: Long Documentation:

    Read This: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/UI/LevelEditor/index.html

    And This: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Actors/index.html

    And This: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Landscape/index.html
     
  10. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    That $20 is per month btw... ohh and the...

    System Requirements:
    • Windows 7 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
    • Dual-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
    • DirectX 11 compatible GPU
    • 8 GB RAM
    lol most ppl here out of luck.
     
  11. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Once you get access to the engine, you have access to the versions you paid for forever.

    While I do plan on keeping the engine version up to date, you only need to pay for a month to get access. As I said in the OP, if you have a .edu email (or access to one), you can get it for a year free.

    Also, how do you not have a 64bit computer and a dx11 capable videocard? This is like 4 year old tech now.

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    Also, I broke the game with the latest code commit... It crashes on startup. I don't know where in the engine it crashes, so I'm working on finding that out. That involves running a debug engine and compiling the whole engine took the better part of the day. The good news is that if you need the pdbs, I have those now.
     
  12. ViroMan

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    I do have that, I am saying there are others here who still work with XP.
     
  13. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Yeah, well, welcome to the future.
     
  14. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    I got multiplayer working in the editor. Wasn't hard.
     
  15. LordDz_2

    LordDz_2 Strange things happens here

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    Multiplayer as testing with multiplayer or mapping with multiplayer?
    Cuz mapping with multiplayer would be hawt. Sexy sexy hawt.
     
  16. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Multiplayer testing. You can set the play button to launch two clients, giving you two viewports.

    I also got the animations to kinda work for the 3p model. Walking is in, but jumping/crouching are broken.

    There is a crash with remote clients firing weapons. Kinda nice to find that but holy fuck getting useful pdbs out of the build process is impossible
     
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  17. LordDz_2

    LordDz_2 Strange things happens here

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    Ok. Nice anyhow.
    Well get Multiplayer editor! So I can draw Penises while pokeing at D.D.D's displacements.
     
  18. D.D.D. Destroyer

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    I was just curious, I'm still working with Hammer.
     
  19. Kylegar

    Kylegar Specstax Rule

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    Ewww, who uses displacements anymore. Even valve says they are bad and turned them into meshes in src2.

    May god rest your soul
     
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  20. f1r3w4rr10r

    f1r3w4rr10r Modeler

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