[Community Project] Real Time Strategy Game. NEW MODELS AVAILABLE. SEE POST #1

[Thommie]

A bit late to react but better late than never.

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@Ryanjon @

I got some free time yesterday and I tried a new camera technique. What I did now is create a new Pawn called ‘RTS_God’. I added a sphere, spring arm and a camera onto it. Then I made this Pawn the default Pawn.

An extra dvatange is I can setup mutliple camera pawns and simply posses them (if we want multiple camera movement styles).

Also instead of constatly checking if WASD is pressed, I defined Axis bindings for those and processsed them in the Pawn’s Event graph. This will help us a lot if we want use Gamepads or Mouse for moving camera.

Anyway, I won’t be pushing this to git since we already have a cmera in place. But if anyone want to implement a new camera, I foudn this to be very easy way. If you find any issues or have a better idea, let me know

Great idea, should i still start this or is yours almost finished?

@Pawz;127478

I just mean separate the game stuff (eg, the concept of ‘gold, knowledge, wood’, ‘civilian’, ‘soldier’) from the engine itself and make it so that the engine can handle any resource / unit the developer defines (eg, Mass / Energy). I’m not actually sure how to do that yet with blueprints but I’m still learning

With what we are currently doing, most of the functionality is already split from game-specific elements.

@Pawz;127965

Does anyone know the best way to collaborate on blueprints? As far as I can tell it just comes in as one big binary blob, so merging changes from two people is… challenging.

I’ve updated my branch with my idea to collaborate.
What i’ve done is add empty child classes based on all of the master classes. These child classes should always be empty in Master. The idea is that you don’t change anything in the master classes but use the child classes for this. When you’re done you commit them to your branch and if everything works, the changes can be transferred to the master classes and pushed to Master. This way when Master is updated anyone can use your branch to see what has changed in Master (because everything you’ve changed should be in the child classes). Updating your working version with the new master will still be difficult and require opening multiple projects at the same time, but at least you know what has changed. And if you’re lucky you can just update your working version to the new Master and everything still works.

Let me know what you guys think

@;128991

Nice one . In AOE 3 we could select any item and the UI showed the details. Although i dont intend to make every object clickable in this game. But thats just my suggestion only. If any other member wants to do that…Feel free.

Since the latest update resources can now also be clicked + resources,buildings and characters know when you are hovering your mouse over them.

Up next is implementing teams/factions/whatever you want to call it and relations between them. Any ideas on how relations between teams should be handled? Scale 1-10, an Enum or something else?