Is this possible to do with UE?

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Hey,

I would like to know if this is possible to do with UE. For my game, I would like to have a small level that a player can build on. For example, I would like the user to be able to move around in first person and pull up a menu and they can select build wall or something and then a wall will appear in front of them and it will snap to the grid. After that, the user could maybe select the wall and go to a menu to change the color of the wall. If someone could tell me if this is possible/legal to do with UE that would be great. Any tips for doing this would be appreciated also. If not, any advice on a program I could use to do this would be very useful.

I could see there being issues because the player would kind of be using UE for building and not paying the subscription for it.

Thanks!

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That’s certainly possible and very legal, that has nothing to do with building a game like you would build a game with the UE4 editor, it’s just gameplay. Epic’s upcoming game Fortnite has game mechanics like that.

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As darthviper said, it is possible -> you can see some projects like that in the wip section of the forum :slight_smile:

or: https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?55997-Player-Building-System

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Thanks guys, that’s such a relief. That Fortnite game looked pretty cool. I really did not want to start trying to find a different engine that would allow that, still new with UE4 though.

This is what was said on the other forums, does this sound about right?