Dungeon Architect

AngeIV · June 6, 2018, 3:17pm

thesnowdog:

This looks like it could be perfect for me. But before I take advantage of this 50% off offer I have a few questions if you have the time to answer them (and to save me going through 142 pages to find out if the answers are somewhere already lol).

I’m working on a VR sci-fi survival horror game (think Alien Isolation meets Dreadhalls) and I’m planning on having the player having random aliens jumping out at them from air vents, light fittings, engineering panels and corpses. Will I be able to do this using Dungeon Architect so that the parasites are in different places every time you play (as opposed to having one corridor type that is randomly placed with the alien parasites there every time I want them to jump out at the player.

Whilst the players are exploring the ship can DA randomly place music prompts to unnerve the player whether there’s a parasite nearby or not?

Will I be better off creating rooms as a whole game asset or would I be better off creating modular pieces containing corners and floor/wall/ceiling modules? The latter will enable me to have a higher texel density when texturing.

Is it possible to merge these modular corridor pieces into one after it has generated because I THINK (and I may be wrong about this) that I’ll get VR performance benefits by doing so?

Many thanks in advance for any help!

yes. its very easy to place a randomized location actor and actor type even. best example is the nature example project spawning trees. it uses the spawn rule, and transform rules.
yes. as long as sound is actor based or zone based. very easy to setup.
as you like. you can make whole rooms with some randomization to it in snap builder. or use grid to build rooms from components.
you will. It is possible, however DA obviously wont do it as it is out of its scope. However if you use snap build and pre-build rooms you can use ue4 build in mesh merging tools. snap builder also have a nice level streaming functionality, that allows to load and unload rooms on the go, to even more out performance.