Empires on UE4 (A collaborative project)

Yeah. I kinda want to do cosmetic, attachable bits on player models and tanks as well, so this will be perfect for it.

 

Clients are now notified when another client fires his weapon. Turns out I only needed to make a 'NetMulticast' function. ezpz. Took me literally all day to find that. When you fire, the guns on remote clients play their effect!

I need to redo the FireShot code to better handle the fact that I need to actually simulate a shot on the client (traces and everything). This will take some time, but once I have that done, the game will be playable.

Almost to Infantry Prototype!

 

Clients now simulate the shot (there are still bugs with this), allowing for impact effects and client particles to be displayed.

You can see it with 'emp.DesignDisplayFakeProjectiles 1' in the console, for fake projectiles.

 

Currently there really is no other way for me to turn all my models by 90° on export to make them facing forward along the +X axis. Either that or we have to do it in the Engine. But honestly I prefer the former, as it is less confusing for future contributors.

I also tried to attach the gun to the Hero_FPP, but could only get it to work in Persona (preview only) or directly in the editor on already spawned actors. I have no idea how I get it to spawn with the weapon in 1st and 3rd person right away. I'll have a look into animating the pistol this evening, if I have the time. (Christmas preparations and stuff...)

And I would really love if we find something more persistent to talk about things to implement. This forum isn't suited for team internal discussion and Steam chats are not persistent.

 

To get it to attach to the character, you need to add a bone so it imports as Skeletal Mesh, then add it to the Mesh field of the weapon's components.

Open the pistol item (Blueprints->Weapons->BE_Pistol), go to 'Components', Select 'Mesh1P' in the tree view, scroll down the property panel until you see 'Mesh', select your pistol. Do the same for Mesh3P.

While writing this, I realized I didn't hide the mesh after you put away the gun. GG me. I'll fix that tomorrow.

 

That still doesn't cover the communication issue though.

 

I mean mostly team internal discussion. You really don't want to discuss every little thing openly.

 

make a trello?

 

I tried it again this evening and really couldn't get it to work. The spot where you described replaces the model completely, so it's only the arms or the gun.

 

In the future, I'd agree with you. Right now, It's only you and me really working on this, so I don't see why not. I can make a forum for this on here (I'm hesitant to do so) so that we can discuss everything, but I still want the greater empires community to see what we are working on. It really helps keep the motivation up when people are seeing what I'm doing.

 

Alright, I fixed a number of issues with drawing and putting away the weapon.

I need to fix the fact that view models don't rotate with the FP model, but it all works now.

@firewarrior: You need to set the 3p and the 1p mesh to have the same mesh. That's why you were having issues. There are code reasons why there are two of them (One is set to be invisible to owner/visible to all, the other is set to be invisible to all/visible to owner). They should be the same mesh, just referenced twice.

Like I said, I need a new arms model. I can't remove the gun from the prototype model that I have. It's built into the model. If I had just arms, it'd be pretty clear what is going on.

 

Still the input only takes one model, not like you suggested arms and then the weapon to attach it to the arms. That's completely independent from 1P and 3P being the same or not.

While I agree with you that posting progress is a nice thing, I really don't like have discussions like how to bind weapons models to weapon blueprints right here in this way. It takes quite a while to get a decent answer and everyone just talking in between the relevant posts just makes it harder to find anything. I can't even catch you on Steam chat most of the time.

 

Its as almost as if you guys would benefit from having an irc channel

 

I have a system planned for that. I'm going to make a 'Usable Object' interface that you can include onto any blueprint and it would work. I haven't gotten around to it yet, so just make a trigger area that opens the doors.

 

Oh, the Arms go onto the Character blueprint.

 

Anyway, I'm struggling to get the gun to attach to the local player. Still fighting it. I downloaded Unreal Tournament to see how it works and it looks like im doing what they are doing, it's just not attaching right.