SONIC UNREAL but, I need some help!

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@hahasamian;532291

1. Note I want objects that always face the camera. Does an average sprite do this? Is there a simple boolean, or do I have to program it to point towards the camera?

2. I kinda wish I could simply set the X, Y, and Z. This feels it would make programming in UE4 so much better… And such a thing may also be considered easy to code and more efficient. This is one of the reasons I like Scratch. Straightforward X and Y. In 3D there would be the third axis, Z. Then I would find Pitch, Yaw, and Roll. And scaling. That’s about it for positions! I know that C++ is a confusing language, but maybe I should check it out!

EDIT: I have decided I will try to make the models myself. I’ve decided that I want to take no assets from the original games. That is what I believe I will do.

1. If the camera is attached to the pawn, and the relative positions and rotations of the camera and sprite do not change, then yes. If the sprite or the camera move independently of each other, then you’ll have to write it yourself. It’s about 6 BP nodes.

2. Not sure what you mean- you can set all of these things. Maybe not with the character class, but you can write everything from a Pawn class. You’ll have to come to grips with the Unreal API either way, best stick to BP until you run into a major obstacle. You’ll know when it’s C++ time.

@hahasamian;532291

3. Let me make another “Bob & Alice” comparison. We have three developers, Joe, Tim, and Ted, no relations to Bob and Alice.
   Ted made a Sonic engine for UE4. The other two developers will use these in different ways.
   Joe adds the story, complete game-play, and levels of Sonic Adventure.
   Tim has new ideas and wants to make a game with new story, levels, features, enemies, objects, and all-around content. He makes something that feels like a completely new game.

Can you spot the difference?
P.S. Joe made a CLONE. He copied everything from Sonic Adventure.
Tim made a FAN-GAME. He used the characters and main story of the games’ history and made something completely new. Some fan-games don’t go this far, but they should add new content.

Video game clone

“A video game clone is either a video game (or series) which is very similar to or heavily inspired by a previous popular game or series.”
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Video game remake

“Typically, a remake of such game software shares essentially the same title, fundamental gameplay concepts, and core story elements of the original game.”

“A remake typically shares very little of the original assets and code with the original game, distinguishing it from an “enhanced port”, partial remake, or remastering.”

“A remake offers a newer interpretation of an older work, characterized by updated or changed assets. A remake typically maintains the same story, genre, and fundamental gameplay ideas of the original work. The intent of a remake is usually to take an older game that has become outdated and update it for a new platform and audience.”

“Games that use an existing brand but are conceptually very different from the original, such as Battlezone (1998) and Defender (2002) are usually regarded as reboots rather than remakes”

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So in your example, Joe made a fan remake of Sonic Adventure, assuming he did not just rip game assets and code- in which case it’d be called a rip or fan port, or something else.

A fan developing the game doesn’t exclude the game from being labeled as anything. If anything, just put ‘fan-made’ before the appropriate label. (FAN-MADE clone, FAN-MADE remake, FAN-MADE reboot, FAN-MADE spiritual successor)

I’m still calling this project a Sonic clone. Possibly a fan reboot- but that’d only apply if it was sufficiently different.

If you weren’t using the Sonic IP (not even the gameplay, just the characters and background), this would be inspired by, or a spiritual successor of, [insert Sonic game].