Dungeon Architect

[Ali_Akbar]

@simpple;636692

I purchased a plugin from the website.

I can not access the website at this time.

How do I get the latest version of the plugin?

@simpple, the website is up. Please try now

[Peter_Shoferistov]

Great asset, I’ve bought DA a while ago for unity at the asset store and now, after moving towards to UE, it’s good to see that it’s available as well!
I remember that your tool has had built-in brushes for building levels manually, but it was a little bit limited.
I’m working on a project with a modular level design and it’s really time-consuming for me to place blocks in the old-fashioned way by dragging/duplicating/deleting them in the scene manually.
I’m just in the beginning of my journey in this project and currently looking for a better level creating tool to use.
So tell me my friend, is it possible to construct by hand something familiar to what you see in the attachment?
Thanks!

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[jwatson_0051]

@;636011

@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

Okay, thanks

[dkoding]

Hello.

I just tried to package my game for Win64.
The packaging process went fine, but when I try to start my game I get this:

UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!SceneProviderCommand_CloneActor::ExecuteImpl() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\sceneproviders\sceneprovidercommand.cpp:180]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!FDungeonSceneProvider::RunGameThreadCommands() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\sceneproviders\dungeonsceneprovider.cpp:90]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!FDungeonBuilderTask::RunGameThreadCommands() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\dungeon.cpp:298]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!ADungeon::Tick() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\dungeon.cpp:122]

Seems like the problem is with the dungeon architect code.
Do I have to do something particular to make this work?

[graysan]

Any of updating the “Dungeon Architect Deathmatch Demo” code to UE 4.14? The Shooter Game is now on 4.14 and the project won’t build or even generate the source files for a manual build after overwriting the files.

[Ali_Akbar]

@dkoding I’ll have a look
@graysan I’ll have an update soon

[Ali_Akbar]

@Peter Shoferistov;636896

Great asset, I’ve bought DA a while ago for unity at the asset store and now, after moving towards to UE, it’s good to see that it’s available as well!
I remember that your tool has had built-in brushes for building levels manually, but it was a little bit limited.
I’m working on a project with a modular level design and it’s really time-consuming for me to place blocks in the old-fashioned way by dragging/duplicating/deleting them in the scene manually.
I’m just in the beginning of my journey in this project and currently looking for a better level creating tool to use.
So tell me my friend, is it possible to construct by hand something familiar to what you see in the attachment?
Thanks!

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Hey Peter Shoferistov, It is not possible to do that with DA currently. I’m however working on improving the paint tool in the coming weeks

[Ali_Akbar]

@qdelpeche;636662

[MENTION=28980][/MENTION] – that is . I can’t wait for City Builder … it is definitely going to get a lot of use in a couple of my projects

@qdelpeche Glad to hear! Looking forward to seeing what you create

[Warcabbit]

@;636647

@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

Makes sense. Spline support would be necessary. Is it likely?

[DrinkThisPotion]

@;636013

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

Great job on Zombie town. Now that you’re finished with that can I get this example pretty please?

[DjGrave]

is city builder already available for DA?

[motorsep]

I’d like to generate (offline) multi-story dungeon, using pre-made areas and generated areas. It needs to have baked lighting, but some areas with breakable geometry need to have stationary lights. Is it achievable (via Blueprints only, no C++) ? Are there tutorials about this kind of approach ?

[dkoding]

@ Any ETA for the scaling problem with spawn and the failing physics constraints on spawn using Runtime builder? Did you get my trouble asset I send on mail?

[motorsep]

I don’t know if it’s upcoming holidays or what, but this thread used to be more lively/responsive

Are there any docs with guidelines about designing modular geometry for DA ? (mostly interested in tile dimensions and general guidelines)

[Ali_Akbar]

@DrinkThisPotion;637714

Great job on Zombie town. Now that you’re finished with that can I get this example pretty please?

@DrinkThisPotion, it contains a lot of modified third party dependencies which I cannot share. The Industrial Hangar art asset is not modular. It didn’t have the X road junction, so I’ve made a custom one by modifying the existing T-road junction in blender. Since this becomes derived work, I cannot redistribute the mesh. I’ll check with the author. I’ve also modified the AIBehaviorToolkit a bit to make the NPCs walk all around the city by themselves without needing an explicit spline path as required by the asset.

I’ll create a stand alone demo with free assets when I get time and share it

[Ali_Akbar]

@DjGrave;638001

is city builder already available for DA?

@DjGrave, it will be available in the next update soon

[Ali_Akbar]

@anonymous_user_87fb381borsep;638048

I’d like to generate (offline) multi-story dungeon, using pre-made areas and generated areas. It needs to have baked lighting, but some areas with breakable geometry need to have stationary lights. Is it achievable (via Blueprints only, no C++) ? Are there tutorials about this kind of approach ?

@ you can set the light mobility from the details panel of the light node

Once your dungeon is built, lightmass should bake lighting into your actors, like any other level (provided your lights and actors are also static)

As for using pre-made areas in the dungeon, there’s no good way of doing it as of now

[motorsep]

@;638946

As for using pre-made areas in the dungeon, there’s no good way of doing it as of now

This is kinda critical functionality which would allow breaking up monotony of generated world. Any near-future plans for implementing such functionality ?

[Ali_Akbar]

@anonymous_user_87fb381borsep;638947

This is kinda critical functionality which would allow breaking up monotony of generated world. Any near-future plans for implementing such functionality ?

@, how are your pre-made layouts represented? (as blueprints?)

[motorsep]

@;638949

@, how are your pre-made layouts represented? (as blueprints?)

However it needs to be done. I imagine I would build a piece manually in the Editor, then convert it into BP actor (unless that’s not possible in UE4 currently). I am sure I could build it as BP actor to begin with. It’s just not designed to be worked with like that IMO.

The custom set piece will be on the grid, as if it was generated by DA (2 x 4 let’s say) with connecting junctions also placed on the grid (so a door or a hallway entrance, for example, would be located where they would have been if DA would generate it; not offset or anything like that). However inside of that 2 x 4 set piece nothing would be on the grid. I should probably make a sketch explaining it.