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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 38m

The PCG saga continues

I've been working with more Quixel assets to get familiar with what types of nature assets are available and how many varieties are needed to create good looking generated forests.

So far so good

#ue5 #pcg #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks!

I am using the "Swimming" movement mode on the character movement component

Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 18h

More PCG fun!

Learned how to generate point sets within existing collections that will remove any overlapping points. This is useful for large decoration, such as boulders or trees, where the surrounding foliage should not overlap the object.

#ue5 #pcg #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 1d

PCG is fun! Used the modeling tool to draw out a spline on the landscape, which serves as the PCG area. Then, figured out how to work with densities and filtering by slope normals. Used some Quixel assets for the foliage generation.

Lookin forward to more progress

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 2d

Great to know for future use, working with PCG can be a pain to those unfamiliar with it

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 2d

i have not! thanks for sharing

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 2d

I want to start working with PCG for larger foliage. But first, I also want a good looking landscape decor. I found a nice asset called MW Landscape Auto Material. I followed the documentation, and with some small tweaks it looks great!

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 3d

Someone pointed out I said splish splash in my last post, even though there was no water splashing...

Anyways! I recently added in splash VFX on water entry for the player with a scaling braking fiction depending on the velocity of entry

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 4d

Splish splash, doing the player swim implementation now. Got basic locomotion working with some free anims from Mixamo

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 5d

In my last post, I showed splash VFX for projectiles hitting water. Now, I added in a similar effect for when the Mech is hovering or going through water.

#ue5 #mech #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! Performance is always a top priority for me.
From what I understand, performance is pretty good so far. I have an older PC I like to test on, which uses a Radeon 6600 (three generations old)

Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 7d

Added in splash VFX for projectiles that hit the water's surface. I was able to modify and use an existing performant particle system that I owned from an asset pack.

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 7d

thanks!

Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 7d

Water looks great so far!

And I got the underwater post processing effect working nicely after some modifications to the default material

#ue5 #indiedev #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 8d

Next up: figuring out water for landmasses

Followed some YT tutorials and figured out how UE's water system works. Made some tweaks of my own so I could decouple its automatic solving of water height, which I'll need control of later.

#ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 9d

Finally achieved my goal!

Exported 4 tiles from photoshop, each at 16321x16321 resolution. Imported into UE at 8x size. Once pieced together, overall size is 261km x 261km

Can't wait to start exploring the world

#ue5 #openworld #gamedev #indiedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 10d

Still playing around with world generation techniques. Figured out a pretty solid workflow for sculpting shapes. Hoping to extend this to generate 512km x 512km landmasses

#ue5 #indiedev #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 11d

LOL I actually got my units mixed up (tired) when writing the post, I'm aiming for 130km x 130km

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 11d

In UE, there's two ways to handle large levels:

1. Level Streaming. This works with chunking the landscape. You can use a UE feature to generate landscape LOD in the engine. The generated LOD also functions with chunking.

2. No Level Streaming. Landscape has no LOD and is visible in its entirety.

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 11d

Testing out dif world generation methods. Aiming for landscape of around 130,000km x 130,000km

a. 15000x15000 res image, C# app to scale up 10x (31gb filesize yikes!)
b. 2017x2017 res image, scaled up in UE 64x (2mb filesize)

Learned a lot from all this, more to come!

#ue5 #indiedev #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 13d

Starting a bit of a deep dive into world generation in UE. To begin, I learned about how you can import a 16 bit grayscale png file and use it for landmass generation.

Going to be fun expanding this to create actual landmasses

#ue5 #indiedev #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 13d

More destructible things!

After being destroyed and after a some time, the object will respawn. If there is an actor in that space, then it will only respawn once the space is clear.

This helps repopulate environments of their scenery

#ue5 #mech #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 14d

Added in movement reduction on destructible collision!

How much the Mech is slowed down depends on the object they are obliterating. This sorta thing helps reinforce the impact of the destroyed environment to the player.

#ue5 #mech #indiegame #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 15d

Working on environment destructibles now!

Modified some existing particle systems to produce exploding vfx for different objects.

In the future, I want scenery to explode around the Mechs as they are fighting. This is the first step to making that possible

#ue5 #mech #indiegame #gamedev

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Angelo @handleonline.bsky.social · 15d

Decided not to use UE's sample buildings anymore. They were far too detailed, unoptimized, and cumbersome to use.

I found a nice asset pack called "Modern City Bundle", which had an emphasize on optimization and worked well right outta the box.

#ue5 #indiegame #indiedev

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