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• Better Dive
  October 30, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I hooked up the dive to the anim blueprint. I also made a new dive that looks much better than the last one... Continue reading
• Modular Control Rig
  October 29, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I need to make a dive animation that doesn't exist as part of the asset pack i bought. I tried making my own control rig but that seemed a bit too much for what I wanted. I figured out that with 5.4 t... Continue reading
• Follow The Camera
  October 20, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  A lot of small changes today. Updated the acceleration / deceleration / max velocity / rotation rate. Now the bird follows the camera instead of moving independent. This makes it feel a lot better to... Continue reading
• Try Falling
  October 19, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I tried out using the other movement modes for flying as it seems that flying doesn't have many controls. Although it's doing a lot of things I don't care about like it has gravity and doesn't allow u... Continue reading
• Added Glide
  September 25, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added a glide so now when you aren't going up you will glide instead of continuously flapping your wings. To do this I just hooked into the relative rotation I was already adding to the bird when yo... Continue reading
• Adds Up and Down Movement
  September 07, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added roll to the relative mesh of the bird when you move up and down. Makes it feel even better. However, I mapped up and down to w and s which is normally forward and backward and I think it feels... Continue reading
• Better Flying
  September 06, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Updated flying to use pawn centric controls instead of camera centric. This makes the bird feel like it has momentum. I also added some pitch to the mesh when its moving with an Finterp to make it smo... Continue reading
• Take Off
  September 05, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added in take off and landing animations as well as a new take on the mushroom forest... Continue reading
• Gameplay Tag Interface
  September 04, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I implemented the gameplay tag interface to make it where the EQS filter for tags actually works now. I also made it where the mushroom forest will filter to the grass biome 3 layer so that i can pain... Continue reading
• Hide and Seek
  September 02, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a hide and seek game for the player to chase. They will not move to the player finds them. Also when I set this up i realized my EQS query to find actor by tag isn't working. So i need to fix t... Continue reading
• Mushroom Forest
  August 31, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I created a mushroom forest, this is for my next environment with my next bird challenge... Continue reading
• Updated Behavior Tree and Field
  August 31, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I updated the behavior tree with a probability of failure on the first walk around this way some of the birds start with flying. Now the group of birds doesn't look so robotic. Also I update the field... Continue reading
• Small Birds
  August 30, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added a new small bird. For some reason the templated anim blueprint i made didn't work when I set it to the skeleton of the small bird. For some reason the bald eagle skeleton worked even though it... Continue reading
• Stamina Seed
  August 29, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I modeled and added a stamina seed. This adds to the max stamina that the player has. The idea is to have challenges for the bird to do to get stamina... Continue reading
• Stamina System
  August 28, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added stamina to the player for how long they can fly. I also added a HUD with a progress bar so you can watch it drop... Continue reading
• Dynamic Behavior Tree
  August 27, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a dynamic behavior tree injection for the main tree. This allows me to easily swap out behaviors with a variable. I also made a long range behavior tree and one that just goes out and comes bac... Continue reading
• Homeward Bound
  August 26, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  So tonight I did a simple add where they spawn to the blackboard so they can go home which worked. However, I wanted them to land and they wouldn't land. After much confusion I realized I had set thei... Continue reading
• Tree Points
  August 23, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added points to the trees so that the birds can fly there. Now they do a little circuit where they fly in the air for a bit and then fly to a tree... Continue reading
• Bird Flying Locations
  August 22, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made a new PCG graph that puts flying locations in the sky this gives a random location for the birds to fly to. I wanted to do this over generating random points because I want the points to follow... Continue reading
• Reparenting Characters
  August 21, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I did some work to get the AI and player character to have the same parent. This way I can reuse the anim blueprint and other common logic. I moved the camera out of the c++ base parent and moved it t... Continue reading
• Template Anim Blueprint
  August 20, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  The birds I bought all have different skeletons so in order for them to work with one anim blueprint I needed to make a template anim blueprint. This allows me to make children when I just set the ani... Continue reading
• Separated Characters
  August 19, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I know it doesn't look like much of a difference but I changed the egg to be a pawn so that it doesn't have the extra cruft of the character. Namely the capsule collider and the character movement com... Continue reading
• Chicken or Egg
  August 18, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  Now the egg make a bird when it cracks open!... Continue reading
• The Egg Breaks
  August 17, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I figured out how the unreal engine chaos system works. Made a geometry collection and defined a field system to crack it. Then I spawn the destructible egg when the real pawn egg stops moving... Continue reading
• An Egg Drops
  August 16, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  This is how I imagine the start of the game. You start as an egg that jumps out of the tree to start the adventure... Continue reading
• Blurred Landscape
  August 15, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I had some annoying sharp edges on the landscape. I figured out that you can pass a blur filter on it to smooth out the edges. I also added rocks... Continue reading
• Landscape Masks
  August 13, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I figured out how to create layer masks for flat and slopes. This drives the materials on the landscape. Then I can use that with the procedural generation tool to get the landscape material and spawn... Continue reading
• Bushes Under Trees
  August 12, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I figured out how to make bushes spawn next to trees using the PCG distance nodes and scale by density nodes. Thanks to this tutorial!... Continue reading
• Update to landscape material and forest
  August 11, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I updated the landscape material because this one uses virtual textures which is more efficent... probably. Also added bushes to the forest... Continue reading
• First Bird AI
  August 11, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I made an new AI class for the birds. Made the initial behavior tree. Got the birds to move with a homing projectile. Made a EQS query and homing actor for the bird to chase... Continue reading
• Procedural Forest
  August 09, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I figured out how to use unreal engines procedural content tools. Here is my first take at a forest. https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/procedural-content-g... Continue reading
• Stylized Trees
  August 09, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I added some trees from the 5 biomes low poly plugin. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-landscape-5-biom... Continue reading
• Landscape and bird
  August 08, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I finally figured out how to import a landscape from Gaea 2.0. Then it took a bit to figure out how to get the landscape material working. The landscape was straight black until I figured out the laye... Continue reading
• Starting out
  August 07, 2024 by Steven Cooney

  I created a new project. After researching I tried to use both Gaea and World Machine. Having some serious issues exporting to unreal though... Continue reading