Third Person Shooter Kit - Cover system, Human AI, Paragon characters, QTE & new stuff is coming!

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@mechadeck

For cover system with foliage, I mean instead of having to place cover system BP at every large tree or large rock in a level, you could either set certain foliage meshes to trigger the cover system, or maybe automatically if the tree or rock is large enough for the character to hide behind.

That’s very non standard. To do this would have to have some standardisation with your meshes. But for sure you can make a child BP from cover and add static mesh there for example.

@mechadeck

Have you tried using Allright Rig for making animations inside the editor? I’ve been really impressed with how much easier it makes creating animations. Let me know if you need some help creating some basic cliff and tree climbing animations. I’d be willing to donate those animations to the project if that will help you get the rest of the system built faster. We’ll probably need both feet and hands IK to make the animations look good on a variety of cliff slopes and tree types. Also some mechanics for moving from the tree trunks to the branches, either walking, crawling, or hanging from the branches depending on the branch thickness, and if the character is moving up or down onto a branch.

This system looks pretty good! Altough I still need some animations for it. I plan to just pay for it to company who creates animations for games.

So what you saying is it a system like in Assassins Creed 3? Becasue do this kind of stuff is very hard and time consuming, and I don’t know where to start. Although I don’t say no. For now I want do more simple climbing, like in Divsion. Then maybe extend it with more acrobatis, ledge to ledge climbing like in Tomb Raider.

@mechadeck

The main thing I liked better about the basic movement in Character Interaction is the ability of the character to walk towards the camera. That’s nice when you want the player to have the opportunity to see the front of the character more often. I recently found out that it’s actually just a matter of changing some settings in the camera and spring arm to get that behavior, so it’s less related to basic movement that I had previously thought.

It’s already in my kit. You can see in older videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhu…ature=youtu.be
You can disabling strafing mode and upperbody turning or clamp it. Here’s are bunch of variables from player charcter BP - https://imgur.com/Sff99CK

@mechadeck

Also, some of the basic movement animations have been too robotic, and exaggerated after retargeting to human characters, but the recent update to use Paragon characters has helped with that.

I agree. Animations are not in super quality. I used a lot of free animations and reworked them plus tweaks from procedural stuff. As I noted in my road map, I plan to replace almost all animations with new ones, made by external company which specialize with animations.