Hi I have come a long way from building my physical architecture in Sketchup19 then taking it to Twinmotion 25.2 and add lights materials lots of glass and water. Structures are on 19 levels over on street level, under ground and under water in a physical city block 50 x 50 x 50m.
Four years of work nearly full time
I finally managed the budget to upgrade to 16gb Nvidia Video card and load my model in UE 5.4.
It all looks mostly good to me but I have many starting questions.
My project has many different types (several hundreds) of spaces all directly accessible by simply walking (not) many doors to open and close beside a few simulated elevators. A bit like a big fantasy hotel with many themed rooms like a mini Las Vegas full of visual surprises.
All I need it my (characters, avatar gamers ) not to walk through wall, fall through glass balconies or ink into floors and sink in water. There are built staircases to move in between all levels everywhere over 2500 steps in total
Is there a general setting that could make this type of general rule for collision or do I have to go ti each space and set each wall floor ceiling individually?
I seem to encounter the following
A/ I saved my file in “3rd person game mode” ( is this a must to build collisions or can collisions be built in another mode (say 1st person) and then at later stage the entire model saved in 3rd person mode?)
B/ I can’t seem to (not) see these square area lights even I go into “G” game mode
My other lights (bulb gizmo) become invisible in my screen shots.
These area lights do not? How to resolve this?
C/ I have a ball mouse “logi” and can move around left right but going up and down
although come times slow when using the keyboard < or >
but with the mouse it flies ultra fast (very difficult to get to an exact location)
Going UP or DOWN with RMP E or Q seems impossible
In Twinmotion I am able to fly and travel high speed from exact places within an d
around the same model. (why in UE it suddenly is so slow and staggering)
Should I do all this work in a lower monitor resolution setting, will it increase the speed?
D/ I get left top corner in my 4K monitor message
Virtual Shadow map overrun I tried to follow the instruction I found
I set all views to Medium when I want to set low all turns into monochrome
E/ Hearing that UE is for large scale projects I find my project rather small visually
seems impossible not matter how to make it more manageable
F/ I run work on this one extra added dedicated SSD solid state hard drive a friend installed extra for this. I am not an IT specialist rather visual autodidact 55+ learning and use only
G/ I find it very difficult to ask the right question to get the right answers as I don’t know all the terms and lingo of the UE UI,menu.
I have and am still watching many tutorials that often are for fast shoot jump etc games which my project is not at all. I watched the beginners 5 hrs tutorial many times and the one with the modern cottage in the forest etc. I find very few linking architectural space and game relating tutorials. Or I just don’t know how to ask the right questions
My scenery is very architectural and precise, no funny landscape and run or jump over and shooting around and enemies of all sorts.
H/ At your experience which AI offers the best answers to questions I always is the one in Firefox on my phone as it comes in handy. I try to limit the amount of open windows on my PC when using UE to minimize any use even I have two monitors a bigger 4K and smaller next to it.
I/ I have a friend who is currently under employed he has worked with C++ for over 20 years in a transportation company (taxi services) I know that UE works with C++ I keep on asking him if he is interested in co operating with me on this but he tells me gaming and his experience is most likely very different. I don’t know what to tell him or show him to entice him maybe to work part time on my project for the right fees. I would like his expertise in C++ to animate the few rides I have in my game space like Ferris, carousel wheels, elevators and maybe my fancy gondolas on the water?
Anyone here reading this in Vancouver Canada interested maybe some co operation?
Thank you so much for any answer per item from A to H
I fully understand that no one has the time to answer everything