Impromptu Marketplace Stuff (Fire, ladders, handrails, stairs, oh my)

[JoeWintergreen]

I have a new submission today and rather than just continually make thread after thread every time I have some new thing I figured it’d be better to just make a thread for all my marketplace stuff. Hopefully that’s okay with everyone. Discuss any and all of the marketplace stuff I do in here! Including support and stuff, or you can email me.

Here’s the new thing: Procedural staircase generator. I pretty much make blueprints to automate the stuff I find annoying as a level designer. This one is maybe the biggest time saver so far for me. I just submitted it, hopefully it gets a bit of traction. As part of ongoing experimentation into pricing this one’s gonna be super cheap, like 5-10 bucks.

Procedural Stairs

Impromptu Procedural Stairs blueprint (UE4)

@Submission description

A procedural staircase blueprint which lets you create detailed, highly customisable linear staircases in seconds out of instanced meshes, which is less annoying than pretty much any other way of making staircases. A huge time saver for any game with stairs in it.
-Create a staircase of the perfect dimensions, number of steps, and step dimensions for any space in seconds
-Comes with several basic stair meshes to get started with
-Use your own meshes or the included ones
-Specify any number of meshes to be selected at random per step to keep staircases from looking repetitive
-Optionally tile many step meshes horizontally across wide staircases rather than stretching any meshes
-Optionally builds walls underneath your staircases out of tiling block and wedge meshes to an adjustable level of tessellation (see video)
-Highly legible, commented blueprint graphs which are easy to learn from and modify

Here’s the previous stuff. Handrails still looking for votes on the Trello. The rest of it’s all available now.

Procedural Handrails Trello link

Impromptu Procedural Handrails (UE4)

@Submission description

A highly flexible procedural handrail blueprint which lets you create detailed, highly customisable handrails of any length and proportions in seconds, simplifying the normally tedious and inefficient task of creating bespoke handrail meshes for your levels or glueing them end-to-end and hoping for the best. Creating a handrail of the perfect length is as easy as clicking and dragging. A huge time saver for any game with handrails in it.

-Create a handrail of the perfect dimensions for any space in seconds
-Comes with several sets of handrail meshes
-Use your own meshes or mix-and-match the included struts, rails and balusters
-Prefers to build handrails on parts, but is compatible with your existing all-in-one handrail meshes
-Easily customise whether you want struts and balusters, unique strut meshes for the start and end of the railing, distance between struts, number of balasturs per rail segment, randomise yaw of struts and balusters, offset the locations and scales of every type of part, change the height of the rail and have everything scaled accordingly, and more
-Support for slopes - enter an angle in degrees and have the handrail slope to that angle
-Highly legible, commented blueprint graphs which are easy to learn from and modify

Procedural Ladders Marketplace link

UE4 Procedural Ladders

@Submission description

A highly flexible procedural ladder blueprint which lets you create detailed ladders of any length and proportions in seconds, simplifying the normally tedious and inefficient task of creating bespoke ladders to fit spaces in your levels. Creating a ladder of the perfect height, width and depth is as easy as clicking and dragging. A huge time saver for any game with ladders in it.

• Comes with three sets of ladder meshes with PBR materials
• Use your own meshes or mix-and-match the included rungs, struts, bolts and wall brackets
• Create a ladder of the perfect dimensions for any space in seconds
• Easily customise ladder length/height, strut thickness, rung length, distance between rungs, mesh details, unique top/bottom meshes, rung roll, and more
• Easily adapted to make stairs, stepladders and fences - just rotate a ladder and adjust rung rotation
• Easy setup process to use your own meshes
• Ladders can generate simple box collision and be physically simulated
• Highly legible, commented blueprint graphs which are easy to learn from and modify

This is not a climbing system.

Fire Propagation System Marketplace link

Impromptu Fire Propagation System (UE4 Blueprint)

@Submission description

A fire propagation system, similar to that found in the Far Cry series, created entirely in Blueprint. Fire can spread realistically across staticmeshes, landscapes and BSP.
-Creates grids of burnable FireCells according to your specifications
-Fire spreads realistically across cells, influenced by wind and parameters you set
-FireSettingsVolumes dictate fire behaviour, or inhibit fire, per-area -Easily set up limitless fire-related behaviours on your own actors through the FireInterface
-Included Explosive Barrel example actor catches fire, burns, explodes, and creates its own FireGrid to propagate fire further
-Included FireSpreadingProjectile creates and ignites firegrids wherever it hits
-Easily override particles and sounds
-Be the envy of every other video game with your totally rad fire.

InFlux Sample Game Marketplace link

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6506E2EGk

@Submission description

Two levels from Impromptu’s 2013 UDK game InFlux, recreated in UE4 using Blueprint. Features two revamped levels (and their assets) from the original game, sound effects, fancy particle effects and shaders, all of the game’s player movement systems and abilities, and heavily-commented blueprints constructed with readability in mind.

[unit23]

Btw. I really could use a Spacethingy, as a way for persistent architecture building, with my custom meshes. Currently, even with pre assembled mesh modules, it takes some time to setup everything.

[JoeWintergreen]

Hmmm. Spacething is a bit underdeveloped/not performant, I hadn’t started using instanced meshes at that point, and it has the obvious limitation of only being able to make rooms on a grid in size increment multiple of 400 or so. What were you thinking of doing with it?

(we’re talking about this btw everyone)

[unit23]

Build a space base, or station, or dungeon or architecture in general. I could launch your app, hop in, setup the space inside as i see fit, make changes as i go along and when i quit, the setup is saved, and then i could add custom things manually ( decals, extra detail meshes, special lights, etc).

Perfect would be if you could give voice commands. “Make Room A”, “Make Corridor B”, “Make Entrance A”, “Make Window F”.

[JoeWintergreen]

Impromptu Procedural Handrails are up on the marketplace! $20.
https://www.unrealengine.com/content/0f7ad93b29f346bf8c6c15114ca12a72

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8724/16631779983_3199556758_o.jpg

[JoeWintergreen]

You can vote for the stair generator now! It’s only going to be like five bucks so go do it.

[Silverspirits (Abdullah)]

you sound like Sylvester Stallone

oh btw, nice work.

[JoeWintergreen]

Haha, never been told that before.

Also, the stair system is up! Five bucks.

[Vata_Raven]

I sent an email asking some questions and was never heard back from, and I also put some input on how to improve upon the stairs as they as missing some important aspects

would be great to hear back from and not just be ignored

[anonymous_user_2a09f2b7]

Hey, JoeWintergreen

Very practical procedural staircase. Cool
I Bought!

Have you considered include option to your procedural staircase and handrails to create spiral or curved forms?

:B

[JoeWintergreen]

Hmm, sorry about that Vata, must have slipped past me. I’ll take a look.

: Yeah, I was considering that initially. I might take a run at that feature soon. Can think of a couple different ways to do it.