[Showcase] Sora A Tale of a Hero

Shadow_Fire

Ah I see. No wonder you were MIA for so long. You've been coming along pretty well. Hope to see more of those music, voice acting, and faceplus in the future.
It's good that GiL allow you to post your progress (and of course, at the same time, I'll get to see how powerful blueprint really is) I've noticed you change your battle system to real time. I would also love to see how that turns out.

wtyson

yeah ive done alot of work some things have tutorials others i have had to figure out on my own with no scripting back ground jumping into a system i barley know as well lol. but blueprint can do anything and i mean anything its just visual scripting with out the need to type lines of code. yeah atm i have functions set up to apply to my blue prints for enemys for things like give xp, give items ect ect. also have it so that hp regens over time along with adding hp and stats as you level up. point allocation is a little much for me but will learn the basics at some point for my next game. i have set up for the main hud dynamic avatars and mini maps. along with real time character model in your character screen which is a wip atm still. once i figure out how to get my armor to move with the model animations ill go back to finishing my ui luckily i only have to do this for one character. the rest i can back the armor into them. if i knew how to break a character into parts to make them modular i would but got no idea how to do this in 3ds max so kinda stuck with rigging armor with a skeleton and trying to get the animations to sync. so many new thing to learn so little time i tell ya.

Shadow_Fire

Hah I feel you. Jumping into a new system with no scripting background is a sure way to lose some hairs. So, you bald yet? XD Whoa, nice nice. You already achieved that much. All that with Blueprint? Blueprint truly is remarkable. With your current determination, I'm sure you will find a way to learn all that in a timely fashion. Don't leave us hanging. Post when you got something to show. I'm also doing real time battle, so would be nice to see what you come up with.

wtyson

i will be posting some pics tomorrow on some stuff . mainly just basic mock ups of what i have atm. not posting any blue print stuff since it would take to much time to take a bunch of screen shots of it. theres alot of blueprints lol

Catacomber

Blueprint is nodes and ORK is nodes and I don't think there's any real difference there in terms of what you can do via nodes. I haven't really had a chance to use Unreal but I doubt it does anything via nodes and blueprints that ORK can't do. Maybe it has better graphics in some cases and stronger particle effects and all that stuff--but you still have to be able to do all the things ORK does---and get your game out there in the market. I'm just thankful ORK lets me do that in a very satisfying way.

Beyond that--I am following your progress and very happy to see the beauty of what you've done and I'm glad you got permission from Gil to continue your blog here about your new game as who knows---someday ORK may come to Unreal and I have a lot of admiration for you trying new things. : )

You have a very strong artistic taste and am glad you're trying everything you can do to get that out there in your game. The results so far look great.

You do have a way of shaking people out of ruts they may have been in. : ) And trying to move the bar of getting what you want to see in a game up.

wtyson

ok as promised heres some pics for now its just a look at the new main menu and about 10 pics of the New landscape of Violethaven..

in this pic ignore the character thats there its just a replacement till i finish armor dont want gil getting mad if im posting naked models since im still working out how to animate armor for my character -_-. Anyways this whole scene is dynamic with bird particles that fly through i added some fantasy style cloud particles to make the sky more appealing. grass was made in speedtree 7 along with the tress in the distance.

next up is the area Violethaven will be built it will only take up a portion of this area since its big enough to hold maybe all of newyork city. and i dont plan to make Violethaven that big. the whole map was done in world machine and that also includes the paths you have to take through the mountains to get to other areas the flat space for violethaven and the crater ridden area as well all done to allow natural erosion an terracing by world machine to make it as realistic as i could.

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heres one of the playfields still under construction made this area to look like it was hit by a bunch of asteroids at some point.

this one is the same area viewed from above added a bit of light so you could see it better.

heres a work in progress waterfall i lit the area once again so you could see it better but this is only viewed from a distance since you wont be able to get over there. the water is suppose to be grey since this is suppose to be a dark fantasy i didnt want nice clear blue water in out door fields ^^

rest are just some random pics i took to show case the terrain a bit more.

This whole thing took me about 4 hours in world machine to get it to my liking. 8 hours if you count my power going out due to a storm making me lose my first creation :P anyways tell me what you think.

wtyson

if you cant see the pic to well just enlarge them the reduced version make them hard to see for me anyways since my eyes are horrible.

wtyson

well took about an hour to figure out but as long as you got 3ds max you can do anything i guess so with my work flow between daz and 3ds max and then to UE4 i am now able to attach armor to my character in daz using daz assets which are really high quality and then bring it into 3ds max to delete the character mesh and armor parts i dont want together and then export each piece of armor with the same skeleton and and import it all to ue4 and just point all my armor pieces to use my characters skeleton. which means any and every piece of armor and accessory can now be visually equipped using the socket system in ue4 and will bend and move along with the characters skeleton with no collision. just figuring this out is a huge step to making this game that much better!

wtyson

heres a pic to show it in action if you look at the left hand side where it says add body parts you will see the test shirt and test pants have been added to the model

wtyson

ok after another 4 hours this morning i have finally figured out how to attach armor in game so you dont got a model running around naked so as of now i got a fully functioning armor system

wtyson

ok so after a small clean up and adding in the hot bar textures and a revamp on the inventory system i have decided to show you guys my wip inventory and ingame hud

this first picture shows the base hud layout starting at top left you got your hp and mana bars along with a dynamic avatar which is basically capturing what the character does in real time and shows all actions and animations the character does. top right is the minmap that shows the area around the player. which will come in handy since there is no area map or world map in this game and some areas enemies will be coming at you like no tomorrow. so i gave a top down view of the player to serve as a way see whats coming since anything that enters the the field of view of the minmap will show up in real time. the buttons on the mini map are the inventory quest and skills buttons of course each menu will also have a hot key but i figured it might be nice to give them buttons as well. on the middle of the screen there above by the shirt is the hover over text for items when you get close to them still needs some adjusting seeing how its off centered. and at the bottom is the hotbar with the xp bar.

next screen shot is of the inventory which is a revamp from the old system since the old system with just using arrays caused your items to disappear after 60 seconds. this system uses the new ue4 UMG system and a structure system to house and call items. as you can see its still a work in progress due to my grid lay out images not showing up like there suppose to atm. but basic functionality is there and so far all of it works. so far the list of options goes as so.

When item is clicked it brings up a small action menu which will grey out the inventory like shown. the top button text will change per item so say you have a banana the top button will change to use or eat or what ever you put with in the item blueprint. my system allows for versatile functioning because you can edit each item in the blueprint to do what ever you want so say you want to pick up a flaming ball and you want to drop that flaming ball on a campfire to spawn a flame effect it can be done quickly and simply with a few changes to the item blueprint use command. same thing with adding armor to your character the use command can get changed to equip or as shown wear me and eventually ill have it so the icon will reappear on the correct armor slot or have it change to learn to spawn a new spell icon in your spell book which then can be dragged into your hotbar. same thing with adding hp and stuff or spawning a small healing well. its all possible with the new item/inventory system i built.

things to do are add in spell book. get equip slots done and last but not least coding in the drag an drop feature in order to make it all work seamlessly together. the drop button of course just drops the item back into the world i also plan on applying this feature to the drap and drop as well once i get it implemented. and i have to add in the stats and currency parts as well .

wtyson

so past 2 weeks i have been working on the inventory system basically doing a full revamp to make it even better. so as of now i successfully implemented drag and drop with int he inventory it self along with item stacking and drag and drop back into the world with full stacks of items as well as picking up the stacks again. i have implemented a mouse event to change mouse cursor on hover as well as item name on hover this will also be used for people you can talk with as well other things through out the game. the drag and drop function was the biggest pain in the ass seeing how it took alot of coding to get it to work in just the inventory it self. i will not be implementing any kind of stack splitting seeing how this is a rpg not a mmo. all these function wouldnt be possible with out the help of a friend of mine out in cali that has been helping me get this stuff working. things that still need to be implemented is the drag from inventory to hotbar as of now it dont drop to hot bar but does register that its there. just a matter of codding the drop part. which means making a inventory for the hot bar so you can just pass the info over to the new inventory. which is another few days of coding... once that is done then spell book and equip systems will come next to allow information to be passed between all systems. @Gil i gotta hand it to ya these systems are a pain in the ass and to keep building them like you do is pretty cool

Gregorik

Hi, this seems to be a promising project, but I'm not sure I get one thing:

did you abandon ORK and ported it all to UE4?

wtyson

yes the whole game has been ported to ue4 and was totally revamped. with all new features such as the new sphere grid skill and stat point allocation system which is still in the works. Think ff10 style but more interactive. the reason why i can still post updates is thanks to gil giving me permission. if that clears things up a bit more for you.

Gregorik

<blockquote> if that clears things up a bit more for you</blockquote>

It actually doesn't, since I'm busy trying to determine if I should create my commercial RPG with ORK. :) I'm not sure if you moving to UE4 is good news at all.

wtyson

oh ok i understand your question now. ork had nothing to do with my move. all in all ork was a god send for me since it allowed me to do things quicker. i was actually having issues with unity that was making it hard for me to get things just the way i wanted them. mainly lighting issues and some terrain issues. things that my game relies alot on that was not working like i expected them to. my move to UE4 was based off that. if your looking to make a rpg with ease then ork is the way to go.

Gregorik

<blockquote> if your looking to make a rpg with ease then ork is the way to go</blockquote>

Well, apparently it was not your way though. ;) But if Unity's good enough for Wasteland2 and Pillars of Eternity, it has to be good enough for me.

Catacomber

@WT--Always interested to see your progress and have learned quite a bit from what you've done. Am working for example now with DAZ to make my own figures. : ) But sticking with Unity and ORK for a number of reasons.

I wish you would come back to Unity and ORK but root for you to get your game done the way you want it to be done--in whatever vehicle you want to do it. : )

I still think you might get it done faster and still really well with Unity and ORK but you are pretty inspiring. : ) And am sure the learning curves you're going through are really good for your own development. : )

wtyson

@Catacomber thanks yeah i am getting it done how i want to do it. so far i have alot of new stuff planed out thanks to ue4. one is the new sphere grid. im also implementing a few mini games as well. ill be posting new pics soon of the new Violethaven its just a huge under taken cause its about 4 times the size of the old one. where talking about 500 interiors all with breakable items to search through. these interiors will be alot smaller as well but just the sheer size of the city im building will take some time. and thats just the city part not the 2 caves systems i have planed for the first area. and the underground section of Violethaven it self. so where talking about just a few hours of game play alot of stuff to search and destroy. and that's just the tip of the iceberg and dosent even include the side quest. or any of the other maps i have yet to create. im also working out a collectable system as well. was hopping to be alot further along but coding does take time and im learning alot so it all in all thsi is a good experience for me. but i hope to have some WIP pics of violethaven soon to show you all :)

wtyson

i have to retract my statement on the 500 interiors and change it to about 3000+ maybe 6000 ( depending on how many buildings i decide to add. reason being after i made the first building the total housing units was around 400 give or take.

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