request: built in UE4 fog of war like in most RTS

Hi, would be nice if you guys from epic make built in UE4 fog of war like in most RTS. It also would be nice to have built in visibility for enemies with just boolean option to stop showing (hiding already showed)/replicate to make flexible fog of war/player bound lights/darkness

Will be nice to see from Epic a demo or tutorial with that like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28070491/UE/Forums/2015-06-01-2118-37.mp4

^ That’s pretty cool.

If I was going to do it, I’d probably do it with a custom GBuffer, or a low-density volume texture for the whole world. Not easy to do either way. There’s a system on Marketplace but I’m sure all it’s doing is attaching dynamic pointlights to everything.

Yeah and that system from COH have a visible volumes as you see in the video like visible collisions to make the fog of war, really cool.

One guy from epic gave me nice tutor link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59INcP9Vsmo about sense component, it’s cool for doing top down sensing game. In RTS it help less, because common RTS fog of war circle based, but i really wonder how would look any RTS with more realistic view/hear sensing :3

Well, the Pawn Sensing Component wouldn’t hide anything visually, since it’s purely for AI control.

I honestly doubt there’s an easy way to achieve this with Blueprints or the tools provided. I’m expecting some graphics programming to have to occur. I might take a stab at it eventually, add it to the list of things I wanna do :stuck_out_tongue:

EDIT: Could be a nice Marketplace Plug-In… Maybe I’ll work on it sooner…

at common sence component seems to be for AI, but i would use it on player pawns with any functions to make static mesh vinvisible when sence component tell your pawn see another player, it’s half the job done already, just looking for function like “show pawn’s static mesh to specific player”

I would buy this, at the moment. But until you have finished I hopefully have found a way to implement it myself :wink:

That looks fantastic. If someone put that on the marketplace it would be an insta buy for me.