Alrighty
As I’ve been hanging around here since the days of UDK and never really bothered showing anything I do (usually cause everything I do is not worth showing…) I thought I’d share a quick video of what I’ve been messing about with lately.
This is just some little project I’ve been doing to improve my C++ skills, everything is coded from scratch in C++, no copy pasting code from the internet, including all the AI, it does use Behaviour Trees but all the task/conditional/service nodes are all written in C++. Big thanks to Tom Looman for his Udemy course and getting me started coding properly.
Being an old sod who’s 1st computer was a Sinclair Spectrum 48k I’ve always been more about the gameplay than graphics so I concentrate most of my efforts in gameplay related coding, I’m absolutely hopeless at modelling and graphics stuff so rather than what I usually do and have a load of primitive shapes wobbling looking gash I have used various Star Wars assets ripped from the internet. Which admittingly isn’t great I know but this isn’t something I ever intend to release or claim to be my own, just nicer and quicker to have some decent placeholder graphics to work with. The Skybox is one of the defaults that comes with the SpaceScape software with a bit of material jazzing up to make it a bit more vibrant…maybe to vibrant…
On the flip side of that, I have made all the particle effects from scratch in Niagara, as you will be able to tell by how rubbish they look. Less said about the target reticle the better…
So anyway here’s a video of me testing the combat AI in VR, I’m amazed how well it runs with that much going on and its running in the editor not even built! Maybe EA should have used UE4 for Squadrons…
Feel free to tell me how rubbish it looks 
