Dungeon Architect

[TechLord]

Yeah, this tool is amazing, but for some reason I personally didn’t see any designer willing to learn it yet.
In game development we’re often control freaks and don’t want things randomly generated instead of handcrafting everything I guess ^^

I would agree. DA allows manual edit. Its great for setting up a layout that one can tweak. It could improve workflow speed in my opinion. Level Designers should give it a .

[Ali_Akbar]

@Flaccid Laser

Thanks [USER=“28980”][/USER] for your response, sorry for the late reply.

I have already tried that. I set NumCells to 0, but sadly, it creates corridors to bind the rooms. I’d like to be able to create “Isolated” rooms with the Paint Mode.

I have attached a videothat shows what I mean: https://youtu.be/KXLe2YKHbtA

Please, let me know if you need further information.

Thanks in advance.

[USER=“75121”]Flaccid Laser[/USER] I’ll work on improving the paint tool in the future. Currently, this is a limitation

[Ali_Akbar]

@PierreInacio

Hi. I’m new and a have a question, how do i do a selection BP to select just the middle of the room?

Have a look at this theme, It has a cube attached in the middle of the rooms. This is done by a marker emitter BP which you’ll need to added to the list (you can find this in the properties window of the theme editor)

DA_TutorialGame/Dungeons/D_MyTheme1

[Ali_Akbar]

@Greegan75

Hi,
Does the plugin allow you to keep the positions of the rooms fixed and only change the corridors?
Thanks

You can drop in platform volumes for your static room locations. Set the RoomThresholdArea param to a large value (like 100000) so the procedural corridor cells are not converted to rooms. Click build to let DA fill in the space. Randomize and build to change the corridors

watch?v=uC5S90_20B0

[Ali_Akbar]

Hi,

Dungeon Architect fails to compile on PS4 with 4.19. You just need to add:

#include "Engine/World.h"

to SceneProviderCommand.h because the AddActor function template uses FActorSpawnParameters.

Thank you @ I’ve update the code

[Ali_Akbar]

@lafilmcompany

Hello. wondering if You can make a tutorial on using city builder with larger buildings and putting together city scenes vs residential. would love to do this in Dungeon Architect vs level streaming. You sent me a message in October saying You were going to put one up for me. Still waiting patiently. Thanks for the plugin and excellent work! Would love to have Dungeon levels streaming vs the ones I’m building. Such a brilliant plugin cant wait to really use it like I want.

@lafilmcompany Sorry for the delay. I’ll make one soon

@AngeIV

something like this? https://.youtube.com/watch?v=ElsH8E5-9DM
each building varies by floors and could ahve diferent interior and materials, however i put this in 1h tops.

@AngeIV That’s

[Ali_Akbar]

@Sooth

I being working with your Snap Map builder and have an issue in editor when rotating the (actor/connector) through the UI input fields. If you rotate using toolbar all is good but if you input a Z rotation and child components disappear. I have a similar issue if you do an undo action. Have you seen thing behavior?

@Sooth Try using the Offset parameter to rotate

[Ali_Akbar]

@Sooth

Issue is this is missing call to Super::PostEditChangeProperty in SnapMapConnectionActor.cpp

void ASnapMapConnectionActor::PostEditChangeProperty(struct FPropertyChangedEvent& e) {
FName PropertyName = (e.Property != NULL) ? e.Property->GetFName() : NAME_None;
if (PropertyName == GET_MEMBER_NAME_CHECKED(ASnapMapConnectionActor, ConnectionComponent)) {
ConnectionComponent->BuildConnection();
}
}

it should be

void ASnapMapConnectionActor::PostEditChangeProperty(struct FPropertyChangedEvent& e) {
FName PropertyName = (e.Property != NULL) ? e.Property->GetFName() : NAME_None;
if (PropertyName == GET_MEMBER_NAME_CHECKED(ASnapMapConnectionActor, ConnectionComponent)) {
ConnectionComponent->BuildConnection();
}
Super::PostEditChangeProperty(e);
}

Ah, thanks for pointing it out!

[Ali_Akbar]

@Harz_YTcarik

From all the features you plugin offers, this one interests me the most, especially ‘Level map based’. For clarifications, by ‘Level map based’, do you mean there is a Persistent map where other, actual levels (not BP actors), are streamed in? Would that work with multiplayer? And lastly, is there any progress on that front? Sorry to bother you with so many questions, but i would really like to use that feature. Especially if it works in multiplayer.

@Harcarik I haven’t made progress on this much. I’ll be getting back to this soon. Yes, by level based, your modules will be saved in persistent maps and will be streamed in. It should work with multiplayer

[Ali_Akbar]

@PhosphorArt

The city builder is very powerful, it is just a few (albeit difficult to implement) features short of creating convincing cities

1- Neighborhoods- if there was a way to define a neighborhood theme clumps (residential vs high rise vs commercial vs rural (“central park”) in believable groupings)
2- Elevation: There is really no way to do hills, ramps with the roads; only flat cities
3- River/Canals: there is no way to really do this where they can play nicely with street, bridges
4- Overpass, highway, train tracks: while this can be a mirror of road below it, no way to make this go in directions that cut into buildings, etc Railroad tracks could follow a similar rule set
5- Corner buildings - users could make things with 2 fronts, or rounded buildings, etc

Bonus:
6- Street width per neighborhood (downtown wide streets going into normal streets, a transition piece)
7- Diagonals streets- make it seem more convincing. Admittedly this sounds very difficult to manage

Bonus Bonus:
8- If this could tie into using a procedural building system w/ interiors. This is somewhat possible now to use existing rules, but would be nice if it was a bit easier or separate. This could be simple (just easier managing floors and interior props ) or something more complex like what you have elsewhere

If you could make this more robust, you could sell a “City Architect” separately from Dungeon Architect, this would be a pretty big high demand system, even for non-gaming applications (VR simulations, AI simulations, autonomous car simulations) . Neither Unity or Unreal has anything like this

@PhosphorArt Thank you for the feedback. I’ll create a more advanced city builder eventually, but we’ll need spline support before that to create roads

[Ali_Akbar]

@anonymous_user_5a843b47n55683599

Hi !
very cool and powerful plugin:D
but i just start using ue4 for couple of months
and i’m wondering is there any way for selecting one specific room by select logic?
Cuz i want to generate several types of rooms with different themes such as a room full of monsters and a room full of traps at runtime
i know i could use themeoverride during designtime but i dunno how to do that at runtime.
I’ve tried a few ways to keep room cell separating by types but they’ve all got just mixed up and i cant figure out any other methods.
i know there must be a way for this but maybe im not very familiar with those nodes so im a little bit desperate.
PLZ reply me if u see this!! Its very important to me
thx for million times!!

@xDragon55683599 There’s a sample that wraps override volumes automatically when you build, but I just checked and it doesn’t work properly at runtime. I’ll have a look

Map File: DA_Misc_Examples/Maps/WrapVolumeAroundRooms

EDIT: It works fine at runtime. You’ll need to change the mobility of your volumes from Static to Movable

[Ali_Akbar]

@HaraldFrankeREZ

Hello,

referring to the great “City Builder” Demo, are there some news on this Demo and the whole Project?
If so please do let me know.
That would be very great for me and the project I do work on.

Thank You for creating and working on the Dungeon Architect.

Best regards,
Harald

Thank you Harald. Sorry I don’t have the demo yet, I’ll create one soon

[Ali_Akbar]

Procedural Mission Designer (Dungeon Flow)

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a editor that will give you more control on the flow of your dungeon. It is driven by grammar rules where you define simple rules to create infinite no. of complex mission graphs and level layouts. The DA builders (i.e. layout algorithms) would then take this graph and build a level layout accordingly. You can define your own rules or use pre-built ones

The example below demonstrates a Key-Lock relationship created using 4 grammar rules. The white arrows show the passable connections and the green arrows show the locks that the key opens. It creates a valid key-lock path where the user can reach the goal without getting stuck

[The graph on the right is procedurally generated]

https://.youtube.com/watch?v=BxgnlBP-3Rc

https://i.imgur.com/veEdp6Qh.png

[TechLord]

A Quest Builder Too? WOW, Just another reason why Level Designers should be using this Powerful Toolset.

[motorsep]

Procedural Mission Designer (Dungeon Flow)

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a editor that will give you more control on the flow of your dungeon. It is driven by grammar rules where you define simple rules to create infinite no. of complex mission graphs and level layouts. The DA builders (i.e. layout algorithms) would then take this graph and build a level layout accordingly. You can define your own rules or use pre-built ones

The example below demonstrates a Key-Lock relationship created using 4 grammar rules. The white arrows show the passable connections and the green arrows show the locks that the key opens. It creates a valid key-lock path where the user can reach the goal without getting stuck

Looking good! Any to have a small tutorial showing building simple Snap dungeon with different floors elevation (not just flat one) and using this mission designer for it ?

[PhosphorArt]

@PhosphorArt Thank you for the feedback. I’ll create a more advanced city builder eventually, but we’ll need spline support before that to create roads

• 1- Neighborhoods- if there was a way to define a neighborhood theme clumps (residential vs high rise vs commercial vs rural (“central park”) in believable groupings)

Is there anyway you could support neighborhoods like you support different rooms in normal dungeons ? Maybe just a grid size for different themes. Like then you could have parks, bombed out areas, high rise, residential, etc as themes in the city. Right now it is just so random, hard to make it feel a city like progression or differentiation

• BUG: Larger buildings than grid (bigger building probability) doesn’t always face the road correctly

Also, is there any way you can fix this bug? Any large building needs an entrance on all sides, the back might be in front while front is in alleyway, etc

Just these two things would make the current one way more usable

[behrtron]

Hello, I am Using Unreal Engine 4.19 Binary, When Adding Dungeon Architect to my Project and packaging for shipping and Distribution, Placing a Dungeon actor in my level, the game Closes without Error only when opening the level containing the Dungeon Actor. I am Aware of a 4.18 issue where Apex Destruction was Causing Android Shipping Builds to Crash, It has been Noted that this was Fixed in 4.19. So i Upgraded to 4.19 Today, and i’m still Experiencing the Same Issue. My Game Opens up the Default Map when downloaded from Google play as a Shipping Build, I then Press play and open my level and the game just closes out, Without Interaction wit the Dungeon, The Dungeon is supposed to build at a later point so im at a loss . When i Remove Dungeon Architect and the Dungeon Actor, Everything Works Fine

I Have tried:
“Fix up all Redirectories”
Deleting the Intermediate and Saved Folders
Including all my necessary Dungeon Content in a Folder than adding it to the Additional Assets to Cook in the Project Settings

[AngeIV]

@Flaccid Laser

Thanks [USER=“28980”][/USER] for your response, sorry for the late reply.

I have already tried that. I set NumCells to 0, but sadly, it creates corridors to bind the rooms. I’d like to be able to create “Isolated” rooms with the Paint Mode.

I have attached a videothat shows what I mean: https://youtu.be/KXLe2YKHbtA

Please, let me know if you need further information.

Thanks in advance.

to make isolated rooms just make your coridors “blank” for the main theme. to spawn no meshes. and where you want a corridor make another theme where coridors have mesh and jsut use volume theme overwrite.

Also [USER=“28980”][/USER] - when will be the new spatial rules be done for grid dungeons?

[notrealvitor]

Hello, I just installed the plugin, and Im following the Quick Start Guide, in Engine 4.19.2. Im in the **Level Authoring by Players (Runtime) **but when I hit play I get this message:

One or more blueprints has an unresolved compiler error, are you sure you want to Play in Editor?
BP_DALB_GameState

When I open the game state it says the pin Cell Location no longer exists on node “Add paint cell” and “Remove Paint cell”.

If I choose to play anyway the game open but does nothing… What could I do?

[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).

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. 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!