Elevator and Random Room Generator?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Is there a way I could make an elevator go up or down and open up to a bunch of rooms randomly selected?

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For sure you can do this, but the question is a bit vague, can you be more specific…?

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For example, if a player entered an elevator, and it started to go up and eventually the elevator will open up to a room but rooms are randomly generated each time like one room could show a hallway of a hotel on fire or the next room could show the streets of Silent Hill basically random rooms with different things happening and there’s a timer for when the door closes up and goes to the next randomly generated room

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Whats up man -
so for something like this, if I’m understanding correctly, I think you’d want to look into the ‘Level Streaming’ mechanic to start with.

Here are some tutorials to help get you started.

  • Level Streaming

Im sure you are already good on making the elevator, but just in case.

  • Elevators
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Just to save you a world of pain :slight_smile: If the levels are supposed to be random, you can’t use streaming. Streaming is for pre-defined levels, although they may appear in a random order.

If you want things to be truly random, then you need to make each ‘area’ a BP.

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So should each level have its own blueprint and it’s each own level separate from the others? Or build the rooms separately but all in the same level

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Let’s be clear :slight_smile:

If by ‘level’ you mean a shaboodle of stuff including landscape yada yada etc. Then you have to do it with streaming.

If by ‘level’ you mean a room, or small sequence of rooms, then you can do it in BP.

If you’re doing the second, the room(s) are just BPs which you spawn just before the lift door opens.

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Ah okay I understand thank you! I appreciate it greatly!

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I think you’re getting me mixed up with the other person :wink:

But, the BP for the rooms totally depend on you.

Here’s some official Epic training on the stuff ( maybe a bit OTT to start off with ):

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PS: I just took a quick look at that, it’s really for production level games so don’t take it too seriously.

If you just have a bunch of meshes, you can convert them to a BP, and that will work just fine. You can spawn them when you need.

You only need instancing when you have hundreds or thousands of rooms :slight_smile:

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Question, is there a chance you could screenshot me a picture of how the blueprint set up would be for each room or is that in one of the links?

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Thank you!