GOLEM Entity Construction System

[BioXide]

@TechLord;250173

Hi BioXide. You’re speculation is correct. I define the body with collision shapes from primitives and meshes, attaching fragments to skeletal mesh socket/bones based on fragment-vs-shape collision. The trick is in where the fragment are spawned and traveling method: self-propelled or pull by the body shape. I call the method, Collage Construction.

I’m developing In-game Editor App to facilitate greater control and complex fragment arrangement and save/load of configurations. I’ve dubbed the editor GOLEMCraft, it will support adding/tweaking Bodypart Shapes, Fragment/Material Selection, Manual orientation/attachment of Fragments (Mesh Components), and other Components (ie: Particle Systems, Lights, Audio) to the body. The Highlight is the PaintGun Tool that will simplify applying Fragments/Fragment Clusters adjusting Fragment Scale, Dispersion Radius, and Application Patterns: Straight, Zig-Zag, Oscillation.

In the current examples to date average up to 1000 Fragments. I optimize using layers of Instanced Static Meshes and custom occlusion. I’m excited about 4.7 ISM improvements anticipating the creation of some really complex Collage Creatures constructed from 100,000’s of fragments.

Awesome!

This could see some great use for a medieval RPG type game, multiple of procedural made golems with different shapes and colors, I like :D.