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

[Thommie]

@Freestyledork;183904

@ everybody,

As we continue to progress I think it is important to set up a world scale. This will help out the modelers as a guideline as well as developers as a game pace to aim towards. I personally really like warcraft 3 and their grid system, with the talk of premade tiles earlier in this thread I think this would be a good template. I would like to hear what others think, but I really think this is stuff we should be outlining so we all have an idea on what to work on.

Also if anyone is interested I think we should start working on a HUD, I can mock up a simple image as a guideline and supply simple assets for this if someone is looking to get this underway.

We are making fast progress and would like to hear what others are interested in as we start to develop the foundation for the game play.

It would be great if you could start working on a HUD! About world scale and premade tiles, i think the new navmesh building in 4.6 could make premade tile work but then there is still the problem of AI movement when it’s not character based. I’ve done some tests with the current AI and with 450 in the level walking around off screen my fps decreased from 90 to 55 and with all 450 on screen to 25 so we probably can’t use (and don’t need) Character as a base for our units. Feel free to tinker with GridSize in the playercontroller and world size until it feels right and let us know

@Anthony;184157

Those are some pretty nice models I plan to do some of my own for the project (as i stated in my last post), but as yet, I haven’t gotten hold of a full license of Maya (should i go for the creative suite? As that would give me Mudbox and MotionBuilder too, though i’ve never used the latter)

One thing i’ve wondered about UE4 for for a while now in regards to RTS games (and some i’ve played in the past), how would we implement custom Navigation meshes? Such as units walking on walls, building roofs, standing on towers, or on the decks of ships? (Rise and Fall: Civilization At War had this feature), I know you can add a custom collision mesh, but what about custom nav meshes?

If we can use the current navigation system it shouldn’t be a problem, especially in 4.6 since navmesh generation is even better (or worse depending on what you want) than 4.5.

@;185465

If you ever plan to add multiplayer, will you use determinism or synching? From what I’ve read, small scale projects like this would work best founded mostly through synching with a small amount of determinism used an there. Would be interesting to see how you guys intend to approach this.

I haven’t put any thought into multiplayer yet so i wouldn’t know, maybe someone else can answer this

@TheJamsh;190268

Why have I only just found this, this is awesome! Messing around with this can be my new home project…

Any ideas how to go about fixing the issue with being able to build on the hills?

Glad you found us! Now that you’re we’re ofcourse hoping you can contribute something ^^

Small fix for the building on hills isn’t that hard but i’m still thinking about making it work in a way i’ll never have to look at it again.