Free Blueprint Templates, Tutorials and Other Stuff

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Here’s a free Sidescroller template designed with the following features:

  1. Sidescroller Genre: The characters face each other and move left and right. The player can pan the camera left and right as well. There’s also the Jump functionality as well.
  2. Simple AI Melee Combat with certain variables to determine the personality of the AI:
  3. Aggressiveness ID: How aggressive the AI is: High rushes at the opponent at any given opportunity (determined by modular probability), then you also have Mid and Low.
  4. Defensiveness ID: How defensive the AI is: High evades a lot more when it perceives an incoming attack (determined by modular probability), and you also have Mid and Low.
  5. Multiplayer Support: The template is multiplayer ready.
  6. Simple User Interface (Health Bars and AI Personality Info): Health bars on screen reflect the health statuses of the characters, and the levels of aggressiveness and defensiveness of each character are also shown on-screen.
  7. Simple Modular Combat System: The entire combat system was designed in a single component that can be re-attached to any actor. So you can just as easily use it in your own project.
  8. Code Modularity: Every aspect of the code is written in blueprints, and is designed for modularity.
  9. Perception: The AI uses UE4’s perception system to determine their targets.
  10. Targeting System: The AICtrl blueprint (Custom AI Controller) contains blueprint code for an organic targeting system with the possibility of using tags to identify friend/foe/NPC. At this time foes and NPCs are already natively supported. Designing for friend identification is quite easy as well.

Blueprints:

  1. Sidescroller GameMode
  2. Sidescroller Level Blueprint
  3. Sidescroller Character
  4. Sidescroller Animation Blueprint
  5. Custom AI Character Controller
  6. AICombat Component

So if you’re interested in this, just go ahead download it, play with it, possibly learn from it, and design around it. If you’d like more features, let me know.

Total Duration For Completion from Start to Finish: 6hrs 30 mins.
Difficulty: Amateur.

Download link: Dropbox - SideAICombat - Simplify your life

Thanks.