Dungeon Architect

[anonymous_user_40d5608f]

It’s good now,

Thank you so much. The plugin is amazing. I would love to implement some of the city builder functionality I see you using in unity. Is that going to be part of the UE4 build?

[Ali_Akbar]

Sure, it’s a planned feature.

[jwatson_0051]

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giving this a bump. Do you have any suggestions for the questions below?

@jwatson_0051;630964

Okay thanks for clearing that up. I have tried the platform volumes to work around this and have had some issues maybe you have some suggestions.

1. My goal is to have full control (nothing procedural) creating rooms and platforms. The best way to do this from what I understand is through the paint tool and platform volumes, correct? On the platform volumes I’m using “room” as the cell type (I’ve experimented with the others this seems to work best). Corridors are being generated automatically between the platform volumes, how can I keep this from happening so that I can maintain full control?

2. When I do paint a corridor up to a platform volume it does not create a door, am I doing something wrong?

3. I’m also trying to find a way to have a path cross underneath another one, do you have any example of this I could reference?

[DrinkThisPotion]

Does anyone have an emitter which detects a very long corridor with a lot of space? If not, anybody have ideas on how to accomplish?

[DrinkThisPotion]

Has anybody figured out what the lines mean in the dungeon debug mode?

's a debug ground coloring guide, fwiw.
Red - Room
Light Blue - Corridor
Dark Blue - Corridor Padding

[Pinworm]

@;634927

@Pinworm Your second approach can work where you wrap theme override volumes around your rooms (e.g. prison theme, garrison theme etc). After the dungeon layout is build, a set of preconfigured theme override volumes (e.g. prison theme volume) are wrapped around the rooms using a blueprint. is an example:

This post has more info along with a sample blueprint

You can access the dungeon model from blueprint and get the room information. There is also a query system to help you. If you need help with anything specific, feel free to post in the forums

Just to clarify, can I have the generator do this automatically? As in, generate a theme volume that will encompass a room at run time? I need it to be able to do it without me doing anything manually in the level editor since my levels will be entirely randomly generated

[Ali_Akbar]

@jwatson_0051;635021

,
giving this a bump. Do you have any suggestions for the questions below?

@jwatson_0051

1. The paint tool needs more work. I’ve added this in my todo list and improve it in the coming weeks
2. The update on the paint tool should fix this. In the mean time, please use marker replace volumes
3. That is not currently possible with the Grid builder

[Ali_Akbar]

@DrinkThisPotion;635625

Does anyone have an emitter which detects a very long corridor with a lot of space? If not, anybody have ideas on how to accomplish?

@DrinkThisPotion I’ll provide a sample for this soon. I coded a similar demo for unity to isolate corridors connecting between rooms

[Ali_Akbar]

@Pinworm;636002

Just to clarify, can I have the generator do this automatically? As in, generate a theme volume that will encompass a room at run time? I need it to be able to do it without me doing anything manually in the level editor since my levels will be entirely randomly generated

@Pinworm It works last time I tested. However a user complained that it doesn’t work in standalone build. I’ll confirm this tomorrow

[Ali_Akbar]

Major updates to the city builder:

https://.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Bs6T-xfI

I randomly remove certain road edges to create uneven layouts that look a bit more natural

There is also an ability to specify custom block layouts and specify your buildings of that size from the theme file (e.g. I have the warehouse that is 1x2 tiles big, and other buildings that are 2x2 tiles big. there is no restriction on the size)

Art used: Industrial Area Hangar

[dkoding]

I would love to - how do I send you the file?

@;633851

DKoding, sorry for the delay. I’m in another city and will be back tomorrow. I’ll investigate and have a priority fix for you soon. In the mean time could you please send the uasset file to reproduce it?

I would love to - how do I send you the file?

[Zireael07]

Is the city builder thing a part of city architect or dungeon architect?

EDIT: None of the links on first post work, not the one to your site nor the one to ue4 marketplace so I can’t find out anything about this.

[Ali_Akbar]

@dkoding;636116

I would love to - how do I send you the file?

@dkoding you can mail it to me: .akbar@coderespawn.com

[Ali_Akbar]

@Zireael07;636150

Is the city builder thing a part of city architect or dungeon architect?

EDIT: None of the links on first post work, not the one to your site nor the one to ue4 marketplace so I can’t find out anything about this.

@Zireael07 The city builder in the above post is part of Dungeon Architect.

The links in the marketplace seem to work fine

Quick Start Guide
User Guide
Video Tutorials

[J.C.Smith]

City Builder looks like its progressing well. Look forward to that.

[Ali_Akbar]

watch?v=sN01kbX4Hts

A DA powered zombie game I’m making for the game jam. I’ll release the source when done

[Ali_Akbar]

Added patrol paths from the theme file for the NPC AI to walk around the city

[Warcabbit]

It’s beautiful, . Do the blocks have to be grid-based?

[anonymous_user_0d08e9d6]

City Builder is gonna be alot of fun to use, looking forward to that update!

[Ali_Akbar]

@Warcabbit;636573

It’s beautiful, . Do the blocks have to be grid-based?

@Warcabbit, it has to be grid based to work with modular assets. We’ll need some spline support in DA to have more naturally looking roads