Fly around and destroy stuff

[digs]

I want to build a simple game prototype where you "fly around and destroy stuff"

right now all I have is a cube that I want to have move around - ie, when you hit play or simulate, you are controlling the cube from the view i have selected:



I only want to start by controlling the cube's (and inherently the camera's) x y z translations. I have a blank scene with the essentials loaded, and as I progress I will add in the others elements needed for gameplay (static meshes, textures, animations, lights, particles, etc etc)

but I'm new to unreal, and am stuck at the start - getting the cube and camera moving properly 8/ I've spent since launch watching tutorials, reading docs, and looking at other blueprints, and I have good experience in the other major game engines

I did not start with any preset gamemode (fps, sidescroller etc) - just the "blank" template with essentials

To re-iterate, I want to hit play and control the cubes x,y, and z translations through the view I have selected above; the camera should follow the cube as expected - once I have that I can start more testing on my own (I've spent a while trying to get this started)

Does anyone have a pointer?

[digs]

finally got him moving around! (this is my first unreal project) I ditched trying to do everything from scratch and used a template project to start it off
[edit] this guy is just a character im testing with

The next goal is to get him spitting out some projectiles - which I have no idea how to do - and build up some basic environment - I'm thinking fable style, or close

[Errvald]

Good animations so far

I'd put 2 dots for eyes (maybe a mouth as well?)
As for the projectiles, the top of the box could open like a hatch door with the weapon coming out.

[digs]

Thanks those are good ideas - for now I'll just have the projectiles coming out of his face, later (after I figure out how to make him shoot projectiles) ill add in the weapons

one issue I noticed was that he never gets into the walk cycle because max acceleration is set to 2048 and max speed is set to 600 - so as soon as the controller is used if fills the value immediately thus skipping the walk cycle in my blend space from playing (at least thats what i think is going on), when I tried to lower just that setting it took him way to long to run - so there was no give between a tiny bit of movement to fully pressed

any ideas on how to fix? its like the speed variable goes from 0 to 600 instantly when given input (not using blend space well)

[Bob_Gneu]

=)

I want more like buttons. Good work so far dude!

[KilrBe3]

How did you do the animations? That really looks great, and I can;t even figure it out. Almost looks like you used the stock animations , but idk. Great work

[JohnF30]

Lovely animations!

[TheAgent]

Ha looks great, I love quirky stuff like this.

[digs]

Thanks a lot everyone! : )

@KilrBe3 - I made the character and his animations in 3ds Max - it took me a while to get everything working, especially since I'm new to unreal. Basically I just mirrored the template with my own stuff

right now I have his projectiles firing at a good speed, I just need them to aim at wherever the camera is looking.

[digs]

Here's an update of what I have so far

I'm going to polish up some of the mechanics, add basic sounds, and then get damage working and maybe some enemy AI

[Bee M]

awesome!! good work

[Ray Davis]

Haha, that character alone makes it awesome.

[digs]

lol thanks guys, I'm using sfx from Ocarina Of Time :b