The theme editor now supports any type of asset. If you can drop an asset in the level editor, you can also drop it in the theme editor and if it doesn’t understand it (e.g. prefabricator asset, paper2d, third party assets, etc) it would create an actor node and ask the editor to initialize the actor node template with the asset
This removes a big limitation we had previously for supporting third party assets in the dungeon theme. This also works in standalone builds
In the video below, DA doesn’t know anything about Paper2D or Prefabricator
The actor nodes show better thumbnails. They used to show actor class thumbs. Now it tries to extract the asset it uses and show that instead. If not, it falls back to showing the class icon
I’ve release 2.11.0 on my website (only Windows). I’ll test the mac version and submit the update to the marketplace for review tomorrow
Edit: Mac version is also available on the website
Version 2.11.0
New: Dungeon Flow Editor - Design and control the flow of your dungeons using this powerful new feature using Graph Grammars
New: Snap Map Builder: A new builder that allows you to stitch pre-made rooms together using the dungeon flow system. This builder has now been moved out of work in progress state
New: Mini Map framework - Generate procedural mini-maps for your dungeons and decorate them with your materials. It supports fog of , static and dynamic icons and other features
New: Level Streaming Framework - A reusable node based level streaming framework that loads only the nearby accessible rooms on demand, keeping the framerate high
New: Level Streaming Navigation - Optimized level navigation system that properly updates as new new chunks are streamed in
New: Proto Tools - New Prototyping art assets to quickly create dungeon pieces and rooms for your SnapMap builder
New: Modes Category - The modes window now has placement categories for Dungeon Architect and ProtoTools to easily find and drop related actors on to the scene
New: Added a sample game to demonstrate the new Snap Map dungeon builder
New: Added blueprint access to cluster themes
New: Theme editor supports drag-drop of any type of asset from the content browser. If it doesn’t understand an asset (e.g. Paper2d, Prefabricator), it would create an actor node and ask the engine to initialize the template. This removes the previous limitaion of supporting third-party plugins
New: Theme editor shows better thumbnail for the actor node by showing the thumbs of the asset it uses. If it cannot find one, it falls back to the class type icon like before
Fix: Fixed a null pointer issue with the marker emitter node in some cases of bulk deletion
Fix: Fixed all level streaming stability issues
Fix: The snap map builder generates the dungeon from the Dungeon Actor’s location instead of (0,0,0)
EXPERIMENTAL: Grid Builder Thick Wall/Door Support - Redesigned the grid builder layout strategy to fully support thick walls and doors (i.e. walls/doors taking up one full tile, instead of an edge)
The game source requires the following: UE4: 4.21 Dungeon Architect: v2.11.0 (grab it from the website for now, till is shows up in the launcher in a few days) Instructions: Create an empty blueprint project. Unzip the game source file and copy it over to your contents folder
Hello [USER=“28980”][/USER], I purchased your product at the marketplace and I love it so far. I was going through the video tutorials and I’m wondering how do I create windows only in the outside of the entire generated structure? I don’t want windows inside a building, that would look odd. I believe selector logic to find the room first but then another logic to find walls that belong to the outer most structure. Any help would be great. Thanks!
For some reason destructibles only work with Enable Impact Damage, instead of also by collision projectile https://.youtube.com/watch?v=ts6jiojwm7s&feature=youtu.be Any ideas how to fix this, or do i miss a setting?
@unit23 Prefabricator and all other third party assets are supported by DA with the new update. However, Prefabricator needs an update (an actor factory class) for this to work, which I’ll release shortly
You’d simply drag drop the prefab asset on to the theme editor
@riuthamus It should show on runtime, you’ll need to build the dungeon. It doesn’t save the level streaming dungeons built in the editor by design as it caused lots of issues in the previous versions (increased disk size, source control issues etc)
Please check the sample game source for more info. I’ll have proper documentation soon
