Unreal 4 and 2D Fighters?

[darkmanx_429]

@YousefBuHazza;268463

All the tools you know will definitely help in creating the game.

Have you decided on the game design and and features of the game? (Hits, grabs, projectiles, grab cancels, grab in air, character switch in, special move meter, etc…)

I don’t know what you want to do but here are a few tips:

• Constrain character movements on the Y plane.
• Use an Orthographic Camera.
• Utilize animation states.
• Root motion will help a lot for the movement and hit animations.
• UMG will be used for displaying information.

Although not on Unreal Engine 4 a tutorial for an engine known as Universal Fighting Engine really helps (Link), they also have a lot of fighting game concepts and basics.

All that is explained more in depth in my High Concept Document, but for demo purposes everything will be on a much much smaller scale. The demo will consists of 2 characters, lifebar supports, collisions, and super jump.

Thanks for the tips I am doing just that by using Digital Tutors and looking at the Unreal Documentation. It’s early but it’s going well! Right now I am just trying to get the stage camera setup by using Blueprint:

@The Britain;268477

Hey there, gameplay programmer for Super Smash Ponies chiming in here. Good luck. We have had fountains of problems so far. We are just now getting close to something playable after many bug fixes, and some custom modifications/hacks/work-arounds. If you’re using 3D characters constrained to one plane, your life will be much easier. If you are working directely with 2D, you will have a unique set of problems since you can not accurately get the sprite frame, set the sprite frame, and there are no anim notifies or state trees for Paper2D.

Do you have anything you could contribute or tips? I am working with 3D assets and characters, but the fighting will be on a two dimensional plane.