Dungeon Architect

[motorsep]

@n00854180t;706638

then under the Blueprint drop down at the top of the editor, select Create Blueprint from Selected Components.

Oh, thanks. Didn’t know that. Is it specific to DA or just a general UE4 tool?

[n00854180t]

@;706667

Oh, thanks. Didn’t know that. Is it specific to DA or just a general UE4 tool?

Just a generic UE4 feature - but because DA spawns the dungeon as individual actors after you click Build, it should work.

I use the Blueprint from actors/components thing a lot to move pieces of levels around.

[Castle]

This looks like it could be really good for a project I am working on now. Would it be possible for me to build a bunch of rooms as separate levels then use the level generator to connect them together while having some dynamic areas acting as hallways or spaces between them?

[hippowombat]

Just picked this up the other day, sorry if this has been asked already, but could I potentially create multiple spawn volumes within an existing level to create custom buildings using modular pieces, or do the volumes set themselves up as separate levels that I’d have to load/stream into?

[n00854180t]

@;706682

This looks like it could be really good for a project I am working on now. Would it be possible for me to build a bunch of rooms as separate levels then use the level generator to connect them together while having some dynamic areas acting as hallways or spaces between them?

posted an example of this earlier in the thread (making static parts connected by random dungeon in between).

[MaxPower42]

@;704186

@MaxPower42 It’s on sale right now (50% off)

The dungeon layout algorithm can be swapped out with another implementation. The default implementation you see in the video is called the Grid Builder. there are other implementations as well which are a work in progress (floor plan, snap, city etc). You can write your own implementations.

Circular / Angular walls are not supported in the grid builder (you could use rules to add a different mesh in the corners)

The quick start guide comes with a sample game mode that shows how the dungeon layout can be modified by the player. However it is not a in-game level editor and it would require more work as part of your game development (UI, save / load etc)

Looks like I missed the sale

Would have invested ~50€, even for the inspiration alone. A few things still concern me though:

• In videos and screenshots maps are more or less flat. I also saw a video with a multi-story building, but I’m wondering how flexible these are. For example, can the floor-layout be different across stories, and can the outer shape resemble this?

• Am I right assuming that everything is based on voxels/cells of a standardized size? Or can the “grid” have different sizes for different kinds of structures (like a corridor may be wider than a ventilation shaft)?

• All the footage I’ve seen had a consistent theme, which didn’t have much variation “within”, meaning all the enclosed buildings, walls floors etc. basically looked the same. Is this just coincidence?.. I guess the question comes down to: are there themes within themes within themes (which are also bound to placement-behavior/patterns) … ?

• Do you have an interface in place that lets you extend map-gen functionality, like OnTilePlaced, OnTileRemoved … ? Can I make tiles (partly) destructible by replacing them with alternative versions - WITHOUT ******** up the system?

• Can “un-dividible elements” stretch over multiple tiles, like a large gate that takes up 2 or 3 standard wall-segments?

Sorry for all the questions. Would appreciate any answers.

[Castle]

@n00854180t;706789

posted an example of this earlier in the thread (making static parts connected by random dungeon in between).

hmm if that’s the case then my first person shooter might genuinely be able to go with randomly generated levels. By do you know what page this is on? skimming through I am seeing there are like 42 pages to this thread ><

[BStbck]

Just bought the plugin a few days ago and loving it so far, thanks for the great work!

One problem I have is that UGridDungeonQuery::GetPathBetweenCells() doesn’t immediately work when building a dungeon at design time and starting a PIE session (OutSuccess is false). At least some of the other query commands (like GetFurthestRooms()) do work.
It can be fixed by calling BuildDungeon() again, for example in BeginPlay() and using a delay node to wait for a short time (even though MaxBuildTimePerFrameMs is 0.0, so it should be synchronous if I understand it correctly).

Can be reproduced easily by using GetPathBetweenCells() in BeginPlay() of a level blueprint with a level that contains a dungeon built at design time.

Not sure if that is a known limitation or a bug, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in the docs at least.
I’m on DungeonArchitect version 2.6.0 with UE 4.15.2.

[thankstipscom]

Havent tried this yet… but has there been any news on side scroller support with this plugin?

[n00854180t]

@;706880

hmm if that’s the case then my first person shooter might genuinely be able to go with randomly generated levels. By do you know what page this is on? skimming through I am seeing there are like 42 pages to this thread ><

Somewhere in the last few pages I think, so start on 41 and go backwards.

[motorsep]

I think it would be nice for DA to support this: Prefab Tool - Prefab Support for Unreal Engine - Marketplace - Unreal Engine Forums

[Aumaan_Anubis]

@;707687

I think it would be nice for DA to support this: Prefab Tool - Prefab Support for Unreal Engine - Marketplace - Epic Developer Community Forums

^This

I just recently purchased DA, and I’m hoping these two will be able to work together

[Ali_Akbar]

@;706682

This looks like it could be really good for a project I am working on now. Would it be possible for me to build a bunch of rooms as separate levels then use the level generator to connect them together while having some dynamic areas acting as hallways or spaces between them?

You can merge your dungeon with static content. 's the example @n00854180t was talking about:

Dungeon Architect

In this example, the middle area is your static level content. You place a platform volume where you’d like a entrance to a procedural dungeon

watch?v=81W6Rhwmhfc

[Ali_Akbar]

@hippowombat;706779

Just picked this up the other day, sorry if this has been asked already, but could I potentially create multiple spawn volumes within an existing level to create custom buildings using modular pieces, or do the volumes set themselves up as separate levels that I’d have to load/stream into?

@hippowombat Could you elaborate? You can have multiple dungeons within the same level (or in different streaming levels)

[Ali_Akbar]

@MaxPower42;706839

Looks like I missed the sale

Would have invested ~50€, even for the inspiration alone. A few things still concern me though:

• In videos and screenshots maps are more or less flat. I also saw a video with a multi-story building, but I’m wondering how flexible these are. For example, can the floor-layout be different across stories, and can the outer shape resemble this?

You can have height variations but not different floors stacked on top of each other with the default layout method. There are other layout methods as well, however they are a work in progress and DA is designed to add more layout methods in the future. The multi-story building video you saw was from the experimental FloorPlan layout builder

• Am I right assuming that everything is based on voxels/cells of a standardized size? Or can the “grid” have different sizes for different kinds of structures (like a corridor may be wider than a ventilation shaft)?
• Can “un-dividible elements” stretch over multiple tiles, like a large gate that takes up 2 or 3 standard wall-segments?

It is based on grids and the art assets of different size factors won’t fit well (like a gate of 2x the size)

• All the footage I’ve seen had a consistent theme, which didn’t have much variation “within”, meaning all the enclosed buildings, walls floors etc. basically looked the same. Is this just coincidence?.. I guess the question comes down to: are there themes within themes within themes (which are also bound to placement-behavior/patterns) … ?

That’s a good point and was a limitation which was addressed a few months ago. There’s a new feature called clustered themeing, which automatically splits up the dungeon into clusters and applies different themes to each cluster. This breaks monotony and adds variety to your level instead of having the same theme throughout

https://coderespawn.github.io/dungeon-architect-user-guide-ue4/stage/assets/images/cluster_theme.jpg

More info on this in the user guide

• Do you have an interface in place that lets you extend map-gen functionality, like OnTilePlaced, OnTileRemoved … ? Can I make tiles (partly) destructible by replacing them with alternative versions - WITHOUT ******** up the system?

You’d mostly control this from the theme editor and probability / rules. You also have Spawn Logic, which are blueprints invoked when your actor is spawned into the scene. You can use this to initialize the actor that you just spawned (like set it to destructible, change the light color, etc)

's an example of destructible meshes spawned from the theme engine
watch?v=VZIIEQoMp7o

Sorry for all the questions. Would appreciate any answers.

I’d be happy to answer any other questions you have

[Ali_Akbar]

@BStbck;707218

Just bought the plugin a few days ago and loving it so far, thanks for the great work!

One problem I have is that UGridDungeonQuery::GetPathBetweenCells() doesn’t immediately work when building a dungeon at design time and starting a PIE session (OutSuccess is false). At least some of the other query commands (like GetFurthestRooms()) do work.
It can be fixed by calling BuildDungeon() again, for example in BeginPlay() and using a delay node to wait for a short time (even though MaxBuildTimePerFrameMs is 0.0, so it should be synchronous if I understand it correctly).

Can be reproduced easily by using GetPathBetweenCells() in BeginPlay() of a level blueprint with a level that contains a dungeon built at design time.

Not sure if that is a known limitation or a bug, but I couldn’t find it mentioned in the docs at least.
I’m on DungeonArchitect version 2.6.0 with UE 4.15.2.

@BStbck Thank you for your support and the bug report. It looks like the data model was not serialized properly when built from the editor. I’ll have a look

[Ali_Akbar]

@anonymous_user_87fb381borsep;707687

I think it would be nice for DA to support this: Prefab Tool - Prefab Support for Unreal Engine - Marketplace - Epic Developer Community Forums

@ Thanks for the heads up. It looks like a very useful addition. I posted on the forum with some questions to @. It should be possible to drag drop the prefab assets to the theme editor and have the theme engine spawn it. However, I’m not sure if any extra initialization is needed by the prefab system after spawning

[nano06126728]

I want to turn on GenerateOverlapEvent of Collision of StaticMeshComponent to be placed.
I tried to turn on GenerateOverlapEvent in MeshDetails Advanced properties of the theme, but it did not turn on in Outliner.
Does MeshDetails’ Advanced properties have no effect?

I’m sorry.
Because it is an English sentence created using google translation, it may be a slightly strange English sentence.

[Ali_Akbar]

@nano06126728 There’s a bug where collision customization doesn’t update properly. As a workaround, try setting this in the mesh editor itself by double clicking your mesh from the content browser

[dazuk1978]

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I added in a landscape and when I hit play I get this crash:

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EpicAccountId:

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

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UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!UDungeonLandscapeModifier::RasterizeLayout() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\landscape\dungeonlandscapemodifier.cpp:140]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!UDungeonLandscapeModifier::OnDungeonLayoutBuilt_Implementation() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\landscape\dungeonlandscapemodifier.cpp:27]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!UDungeonEventListener::execOnDungeonLayoutBuilt() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\public\core\dungeoneventlistener.h:15]
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UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!UDungeonEventListener::OnDungeonLayoutBuilt()
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UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!FDungeonBuilderTask::DoWork() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\localbuilds\plugintemp\hostproject\plugins\dungeonarchitect\source\dungeonarchitectruntime\private\core\dungeon.cpp:272]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!FAsyncTask<FDungeonBuilderTask>::DoWork() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\rocketsync\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async\asyncwork.h:264]
UE4Editor_DungeonArchitectRuntime!FAsyncTask<FDungeonBuilderTask>::Start() [d:\build++portal+main+full\sync\rocketsync\engine\source\runtime\core\public\async\asyncwork.h:252]
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