Dungeon Architect

HInoue · October 13, 2015, 9:12am

Just curious, where are you posting it once the upload finishes? Under our account purchases on your site? ^^ (Side note: this looks really neat)

anonymous_user_c9f3c912 · October 14, 2015, 10:31pm

Quick question. If you went into enough depth of the generation process and got good results, could you then randomize so you could walk into the same cave over and over but it’s different each time?

Ali_Akbar · October 15, 2015, 8:38am

@Xizqu could you elaborate?

Ali_Akbar · October 15, 2015, 8:40am

When a dungeon is created, all the spawned actors are now placed under a dungeon specific folder to avoid cluttering up your scene outliner

Ali_Akbar · October 15, 2015, 8:44am

Loops are not allowed in the theme graph as it would infinitely keep spawning items in the scene. The theme graph disallows it and displays a helpful message showing how the loop is formed

Ali_Akbar · October 15, 2015, 8:47am

Added a billboard sprite to the dungeon actor

Ali_Akbar · October 15, 2015, 10:42am

Instanced Mesh generator now properly supports material override.

morbidipus · October 15, 2015, 8:30pm

I have sets of walls + grounds, each set has it’s own ‘theme’, let’s say all of 1 color (i.e. blue theme, red theme, green theme, etc). I want to create each room with a random ‘theme’ so that the walls/grounds do not mix in different themes in the same room. How can I set this up in the theme graph?

n00854180t · October 16, 2015, 4:21am

@morbidipus - will probably be able to explain more thoroughly, but it sounds like you may be able to accomplish that by making your own selector blueprint and checking the current room to see which color was already applied.

Nawrot · October 16, 2015, 11:41am

I just bought it, and will post more after weekend. Looks very promising.

Ali_Akbar · October 16, 2015, 5:30pm

@morbidipus, You can use a selector as n00854180t mentioned. Another approach is to use theme override volumes placed around the rooms. However, ue4 editor doesn’t allow us to spawn volumes at runtime from blueprints (I have a workaround for this from C++ and use it in the building demo)

@HInoue I’ll upload a new build by tomorrow

HInoue · October 16, 2015, 6:43pm

, thank you!! I’ll be looking forward to it; I’ve only had it for a few days and you’ve already added so much more neat stuff, I really appreciate the hard work you’re investing in this.

dazuk1978 · October 16, 2015, 7:08pm

Thinking of purchasing this as it sounds like exactly what I want for my current and future projects - work!
However, I have some questions before I buy it:

1> I will be using it in a blueprint only project, is that a problem?
2> Is there a way to effectively light the ‘dungeon’ when it’s generated? I usually use dynamic only lighting anyway but I can’t find any mention on your thread regarding placed lights. How do you handle lighting a level, other than manual placement?
3> Can it include blueprinted entities, such as a room or computer console with a light already added as a component?

Thanks,
Daz

n00854180t · October 16, 2015, 7:13pm

Other than the problem with plugins and packaged projects, it should be fine (not sure if that’s an issue still or not)
You can make the dungeon theme spit out whatever types of stuff you want, including dynamic lights.
Yes indeed! The markers can emit meshes or blueprint actors.

dazuk1978 · October 16, 2015, 9:08pm

Hi,

So I bought it.
I’m running a Blueprint project so I read the post saying I’d have to create any c++ class and get Visual Studio etc to get it working. I followed the quick start guide and then added the starter content pack. Navigated to the Maps directory and loaded DungeonDesignTime map. It said to find the Dungeon1 entity…but there isn’t one.
I swapped to some of the other maps and then back again, still not there. Then I got the errors shown in the picture.

It wasn’t clear if I have to do something with Visual Studio, but I pressed ‘Build’ anyway and it did a few things.

Can anyone tell me what to do please?

Thanks
Daz

BrUnO_XaVIeR · October 16, 2015, 10:57pm

Is this at Marketplace?
The video says Marketplace, but no links given.

Nawrot · October 17, 2015, 6:58pm

@dazuk something is messed up with starter pack for dungeon architect. Instead of finding right folder i created my own theme.

This plugin is very easy to use, after you learn basics of it. Would be great if there was some tutorial showing all its functions.
For eg. it took me whole day to find out how to make rooms in custom not generated dungeons (all i got was always corridors), but then i found out that volume has option to select type of room.

There are still few things i cannot figure out: how to make objects that ocuppy 2 section of wall, or how to exclude corners (or narrow passages) from spawning deco junk.

But anyway this plugin is great. Works well with SCIFI modular set after you fix some pivots and rotations.

HInoue · October 17, 2015, 7:17pm

Hmm, bug report- trying to generate a dungeon with instanced meshes or with organic on instead of grid crashes unreal for me- 's the crashlog:

Access violation - code c0000005 (first/second not available)

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UE4Editor_Engine!AActor::SetFolderPath() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actoreditor.cpp:689]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime
UE4Editor_Engine!AActor::TickActor() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actor.cpp:730]
UE4Editor_Engine!FActorTickFunction::ExecuteTick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\actor.cpp:107]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickFunctionTask::DoTask() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private icktaskmanager.cpp:141]
UE4Editor_Engine!TGraphTask<FTickFunctionTask>::ExecuteTask() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async askgraphinterfaces.h:779]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskThread::ProcessTasks() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async askgraph.cpp:539]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskThread::ProcessTasksUntilQuit() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async askgraph.cpp:340]
UE4Editor_Core!FTaskGraphImplementation::WaitUntilTasksComplete() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\core\private\async askgraph.cpp:1140]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTaskGraphInterface::WaitUntilTaskCompletes() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async askgraphinterfaces.h:212]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickTaskSequencer::ReleaseTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private icktaskmanager.cpp:292]
UE4Editor_Engine!FTickTaskManager::RunTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private icktaskmanager.cpp:1206]
UE4Editor_Engine!UWorld::RunTickGroup() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\leveltick.cpp:701]
UE4Editor_Engine!UWorld::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\engine\private\leveltick.cpp:1150]
UE4Editor_UnrealEd!UEditorEngine::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\editorengine.cpp:1142]
UE4Editor_UnrealEd!UUnrealEdEngine::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\editor\unrealed\private\unrealedengine.cpp:366]
UE4Editor!FEngineLoop::Tick() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:2428]
UE4Editor!GuardedMain() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:142]
UE4Editor!GuardedMainWrapper() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:126]
UE4Editor!WinMain() [d:\buildfarm\buildmachine_++depot+ue4-releases+4.9\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:200]

Ali_Akbar · October 17, 2015, 7:24pm

@dazuk1978 I’ve uploaded a new build and sent out an email. Also fixed the blueprint error in the starter content. Can you try with the new build?

I’m creating video tutorials. are the first three covering the basics
Plugin Installation
Quick start samples overview
Creating a simple theme file
More videos covering advanced topics coming soon

@ Epic is still reviewing it. It will take a while

@HInoue Thanks for the log. Could you try with the new build?

Ali_Akbar · October 17, 2015, 7:27pm

New build released [1.1.0]
Change log:

Added billboard component to the dungeon actor
Fixed a crash issue with entering dungeon paint mode when the scene has no dungeon actors
In Paint editor mode, the cursor is now hidden when the camera is moved around
Added undo support in the dungeon paint mode
Fixed an infinite loop error when a cycle is formed in the graph. Cycles are now disallowed by the theme graph editor
Refactored the dungeon marker emission API so users can design their own dungeon algorithms within blueprints or C++
Added an experimental organic builder that works with landscapes. The layout is carved into the landscape (work in progress)
Added a new button in the dungeon actor to modify the dungeon builder’s properties (e.g. a user defined BP based dungeon builder can expose customizable parameters, and these can be edited from the dungeon actor)
Spawned dungeon items are placed a dungeon specific folder to avoid cluttering up the scene outliner
Instanced static mesh generator now properly supports material override
Dungeon model is not accessible from blueprints. This lets you loop through the cells and doors from blueprint
Added tooltips to the various fields in the dungeon configuration structure
Added tooltips to the theme graph node property fields