Dungeon Architect

[Ali_Akbar]

@Neurologix

This is seriously incredible. I just purchased DA last night, and I have what I think is a rather odd goal for it. I want to use it to procedurally generate realistic looking top down maps of dungeons for my D&D group. My ultimate goal is to have maybe 10-12 themes that I can create (Fire dungeon, Icelands, , City/Village, Graveyard, etc) that (after the themes are set up) can be pretty speedily procedurally generated whenever the group heads to a new town or encounters a new dungeon/area.

I have pretty much no experience in ue4 (my only remotely close to comp sci experience is running pipelines using python), and so far I’ve only got the basics of making the theme, putting in walls and floors and rescaling, etc. so 's my question:

I saw for the unity based engine, there are premade themes you provide which look incredible (especially the interiors and graveyard ones)- are there premade themes for ue4 that are available in a download the assets and plug in the theme file kind of way?

@Neurologix Sure, you’ll find these sample themes and instructions on how to use them in the Quick Start Guide: http://coderespawn.github.io/dungeon-architect-quick-start-ue4

UE4 ships with some high quality free assets (called Infinity Blade assets). The above link as samples that use Infinity Blade’s assets and other free assets, along with some paid assets as well

[Ali_Akbar]

@rctorres

I’ve been trying to use the SnapMap and not having any success. I blocked out some simple levels with Snap Connection actors pointing outwards, enabled World Composition on all of them, avoiding for collision between modules, and only the first module is appearing. Is there any extra set up required to use this? Also, are their any features that aren’t supported (landscape, foliage, etc)?

@rctorres Try increasing the collision test value from to a higher number. The default value of 100 is too low (In the sample videos I use 500)

[Ali_Akbar]

@Hevedy

Hello got a question @

Its possible to generate more house indoors like dungeons ? Like some kind of hall/corridor control the rest of the rooms layout, connected to this hall all of them ? Some kind of branches aswell can have rooms connected between rooms.

@Hevedy There’s a simple floorplan generator available based on bsp partitioning. I might end up implementing a node based system like this using tree maps: https://.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/2010/624817/

[Ali_Akbar]

@Gryphun

Seeing an issue in 4.18.1 on OSX.

@Gryphun I just tested the compilation of the latest version with 2.8.1 locally and it works fine. This looks like a deployment issue in the marketplace. I’ll follow up with Epic

[Raverix]

Hello, I just purchased the Dungeon Architect, and when I go into ‘Paint Mode’, I’m expecting to see blue and green tiles representing the path, but neither show, just a black outline as I move the cursor, suggestions?

[uced]

Hey !

work , thanks for sharing I love your NPC selection UI and navigation. Looking forward to playing it

@: thanks again, hopefully it will be on steam in a few months if all goes well (still a lot of things to fix). Of course, as soon as it’s out, there’ll be a free access key for you

@anonymous_user_cde820bcak421

That is REALLY neat…! I would buy that UI…!

teak

@Teak421: thank you, lots of work and thinking behind that UI ! Never thought about selling it, that would be a lot of work to make it versatile enough to be presentable on the MP. Maybe one day if time allows

Cheers

[zouking]

Hello, I am working on creating small houses with floor plan builder, I have a wall with inner texture and outer texture, I cant figure out how to keep the inner texture inside and the outer texture outside, is there a way to rotate the building walls in a way to keep the inner texture inside?

[MarkcusD]

Which assets were used for this city demo: https://.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Bs6T-xfI&t=21s
?

[Hevedy]

Hey @ got another question, its possible generate a dungeon limited by axis ? In my case lets say I want a game 2.5D or like the old side scrollers, where you see the world from side.

Its possible generate the dungeon just in vertical that join different rooms, and special ones with stairs or ladders to connect bottom ones and top ones ? I mean like build a house with many floors aswell define the number of rooms per floor all aligned in the same lets say X or Y to be aligned to the camera that is “2.5D”?

Ty.

[TechLord]

Hello [USER=“28980”][/USER] and DA users. As crazy as the following may sound. I’ve reviewed the DA User Guide’s Generation overview and would like to apply to Two-phased generation method to Entities such as Characters, Weapons, Vehicles, etc. for Procedural Generation. Marker Emitters are attached to the Skeletal Mesh Bones and Sockets. Any recommendations on how I can pull this off?

Dungeon Knight Architect

[intoxicat3]

(this topic is to big to search for these… )

• Anyone know how to make door cell size bigger than default grid? Can’t find any variation.
• How to check where is start so I can teleport player there?
• How to check where is end so I can spawn exit doors in there?

[anonymous_user_9a913664]

Good graphics

[rctorres]

@rctorres Try increasing the collision test value from to a higher number. The default value of 100 is too low (In the sample videos I use 500)

Thanks, I tried this and when I click build dungeon, the editor crashes completely, at this point 100% of the time. It would be really useful to see an example project/video or walkthrough of a basic initial set up with this. I’d like to see how you set up the modules, how you made the connections, if you did anything in the persistent level in regards to composition, basic settings on the builder to get it running.

In the discord channel I also asked if there were plans to allow to offset where the snap dungeon is currently built from. I’m currently using the blueprint version for my project. Right now, no matter where you place the dungeon actor in a level, the snap dungeon is always built from the origin. It would be nice to be able to move the dungeon. For example, if I wanted to have a miniboss, currently I would have one dungeon for the first half, ending at the miniboss fight, and then start a second dungeon/level from there to the end of the level. I know there were plans for some kind of level flow editor or a new builder that could do this? Or adding a midpoint module to the snap builder? If there is a way to do this with the current implementation, please show an example.

Thanks for your hard work as always!

[GameMaster79]

@rctorres

Thanks, I tried this and when I click build dungeon, the editor crashes completely, at this point 100% of the time. It would be really useful to see an example project/video or walkthrough of a basic initial set up with this. I’d like to see how you set up the modules, how you made the connections, if you did anything in the persistent level in regards to composition, basic settings on the builder to get it running.

In the discord channel I also asked if there were plans to allow to offset where the snap dungeon is currently built from. I’m currently using the blueprint version for my project. Right now, no matter where you place the dungeon actor in a level, the snap dungeon is always built from the origin. It would be nice to be able to move the dungeon. For example, if I wanted to have a miniboss, currently I would have one dungeon for the first half, ending at the miniboss fight, and then start a second dungeon/level from there to the end of the level. I know there were plans for some kind of level flow editor or a new builder that could do this? Or adding a midpoint module to the snap builder? If there is a way to do this with the current implementation, please show an example.

Thanks for your hard work as always!

I too get a crash 100% of the time using the snap builder. I have tried both map and blueprint. BP works some of the time. , which one will be supported going forward? I would would to see more on the snap builder as well.

As for how to having the dungeon build where you want. Just place it in a negation volume and invert the volume.

[motorsep]

I am sure is working on some cool features for DA, but it feels like DA hasn’t been in active development lately

[Baradine]

I can’t seem to get stairs to work in floorplan. does anyone have any suggestions? I put the stairs in and it generates in every room. I just want the stairs to generate in the far left corner of every floor of the building. Great tool, thanks for it.

[Ali_Akbar]

@zouking

Hello, I am working on creating small houses with floor plan builder, I have a wall with inner texture and outer texture, I cant figure out how to keep the inner texture inside and the outer texture outside, is there a way to rotate the building walls in a way to keep the inner texture inside?

@zouking I’ll fix this in the next update

[Ali_Akbar]

@Raverix

Hello, I just purchased the Dungeon Architect, and when I go into ‘Paint Mode’, I’m expecting to see blue and green tiles representing the path, but neither show, just a black outline as I move the cursor, suggestions?

@Raverix I’ll fix the paint cursor issue in the next update

[Ali_Akbar]

@MarkcusD

Which assets were used for this city demo: https://.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Bs6T-xfI&t=21s
?

@MarkcusD I’ve used Industrial Area Hangar. I didn’t find the roads are not modular and had to create some modifications my self in blender to have it working

[Ali_Akbar]

@Hevedy

Hey @ got another question, its possible generate a dungeon limited by axis ? In my case lets say I want a game 2.5D or like the old side scrollers, where you see the world from side.

Its possible generate the dungeon just in vertical that join different rooms, and special ones with stairs or ladders to connect bottom ones and top ones ? I mean like build a house with many floors aswell define the number of rooms per floor all aligned in the same lets say X or Y to be aligned to the camera that is “2.5D”?

Ty.

@Hevedy, do you mean something like this (attached)?

Let me know what you’d like to see and I’ll try to code a new builder