I’m working on my MFA in Digital Production Arts. Come from a fine arts/animation background and have always wanted to make games. Been learning cpp as well as ZBrush and UE4 the last 2.5 years or so. Finally onto my first indie game project. It’s gunna be a top-down shooter/2D platformer hybrid, kinda like Blaster Master on the NES back in the day.
Any advice on pawn/char swapping and game mode swapping is most welcome:)
For switching between characters, you’ll want to handle input logic in the controller class so you can posses and unposses the specific character after spawning.
Prototyping this week:) I think I have an idea that may work, keeping the side scroller separate via quick loading levels/maps. I will need the top-down shooter bit to eject a little dude that can run along the ground, thinking this will be heirarchy/socket. Then this little dude can trigger a side-scroller map to load. I’ll need to produce some sort of transition if I go this way.
Heard, re: game mode, this is an area I don’t know much about yet. Appreciate the input!