SuperGrid - Fast Level Prototyping

[X.E.R.T.]

Just purchased and look forward to trying. But I'm having trouble adding SuperGrid to an existing 4.8 project.

In the Epic Launcher, under my Vault, SuperGrid gives me the option to 'Add to project.' Clicking on this takes me to Choose Project Name and Location - to create a new project. I see none of the 4.6 - 4.8 project thumbs that exist in My Projects. I have 4.7.6 and 4.8 Preview two installed.

I had this issue as well, i just opened the super grid as its own project and then migrate the entire folder into the project i desired. I am not sure why it cannot be added to existing projects from the start screen probably will be fixed soon.

[Speiderful]

Gonna buy this, hope it helps me with level design :-)

[zeOrb]

Just purchased and look forward to trying. But I'm having trouble adding SuperGrid to an existing 4.8 project.

In the Epic Launcher, under my Vault, SuperGrid gives me the option to 'Add to project.' Clicking on this takes me to Choose Project Name and Location - to create a new project. I see none of the 4.6 - 4.8 project thumbs that exist in My Projects. I have 4.7.6 and 4.8 Preview two installed.

Hello David,
Yeah, there is an issue with Launcher, check out Marketplace FAQ, last paragraph

Fantastic work zeOrb! I really really love your job, and hope you can keep going and make it even better!
I have a question: Most tutorials I watched about level editing in Unreal Editor were brush-based, create brushes and perform additive/subtractive operations on them.
And your method is different, it's staticmesh-based, it's easier to use and I love it.
What do you think about your method comparing to the traditional brush-based method? Is it only intended to be used as prototyping or it can also work well in real production?

Thanks thelONE!
Well, brush-based method is viable only for prototyping and it's recommended by Epic not to use this in final shipping of your product.
As for SuperGrid, it's could be used in real production, but there are some caveats I want to cover later in a guide. Basically it will explain how to get the most from assets with high. res. Lightmap and Distance Fields.

Gonna buy this, hope it helps me with level design :-)

Good luck Speiderful!

[Hevedy]

This work with the static light (Lightmass) or at scale the models with different x,y,z scales the lightmap breaks ?

[zeOrb]

This work with the static light (Lightmass) or at scale the models with different x,y,z scales the lightmap breaks ?

Hey Hev!
Nah, nothing like that, but you have to take into account that with high scale value you have to scale up Lightmap resolution and etc
With distance fields there is a bug with non-uniform scaling which smash SuperGrid pretty hard:

Non-uniform scaling cannot be handled correctly (mirroring is ok). However, squishing by 2x or less is generally not noticeable.

Just some general stuff that relevant to SuperGrid especially.

[sebas]

Hey impatient question is the UT bug already fixed? I just can't wait to frag in my map! THX

[zeOrb]

Hey impatient question is the UT bug already fixed? I just can't wait to frag in my map! THX

Hey Sebas, I sent updated project to Epic and it should have been live already, but seems like there were some complications :c
I think it delayed until monday =/

[X.E.R.T.]

[qdelpeche]

I hope you won't change your mind after purchase!
What if zePresident is evil overlord... and forcing people to leave nice feedback on pain of destruction... There is only way to find out!

Actually, why not!
Fear zePresident in 1.1

Can't be worse than my ex-wife ... I'll take my chances.

Long live zePresident ... 8-}


I actually have a whole game idea that is going to use this entire set and I might only change the textures ... see how it pans out once I get the kit.

[Luftbauch]

Just bought it, because i like your work. Needed moving textures (some pipeflow), great ressource to learn from
Very personal way to build collisionboxes for some objects.
Edit: Really great stuff. Your Holomaterials are very cool and good commented.
Your Holomaterial and the seperation of the colors, to accomplish the movement is so nice and easy editable.

Happy Buyer

[labidus]

I see 4.7/4.8 now, I install 4.7 on a folder, COPY/PASTE the SuperGrid folder from Content to UnrealTournament Content folder? I still got the same error, I bet they are something I need to do differently?

Thanks!

[Luftbauch]

Hi El Presidente,
some weirdoquestions ahead, from an amateur.
About M_Utility_Demo_Float: When i drag SG_Cone in map and Apply M_Utility_Demo_Float, the cone is floating.
When i drag (for example) SG_Box / SG_Hex (Mesh) into map and apply same material, it start only to float, after uniform scale +/- for me.

When i stand up on a floating cube with same material, i get black flickering onto mat/text, player position is not updatet, along the collisionbox (not floating). Texturediving.

About Material editing T_Basic_Grid: I tried to archieve some pipeflow effect with the SG_Meshes, and when i swap the textures with red dots it flows in one axis direction. When i apply green dots, it follows another axis, along mesh.

Is it right, to control the aligment of textureshifting, inside the material editor"M_SuperGrid_Holo***, "Generate UV for small and big grids"-"PatternX"-"PatternY"?
I do not really understand, how this channelsplitting works, tried many seamless patterns, looking good, but never like expected.

Greetings

[zeOrb]

Can't be worse than my ex-wife ... I'll take my chances.

Long live zePresident ... 8-}


I actually have a whole game idea that is going to use this entire set and I might only change the textures ... see how it pans out once I get the kit.

I could use your ex as a prototype... But better not
Can't wait to see! ^o^

I see 4.7/4.8 now, I install 4.7 on a folder, COPY/PASTE the SuperGrid folder from Content to UnrealTournament Content folder? I still got the same error, I bet they are something I need to do differently?

Thanks!

Hey Labidus, it's not live yet :<
I think you will get notification to update SuperGrid in Launcher whenever it goes live.
It's 5 am in Raleigh so we have to wait a little bit more

Just bought it, because i like your work. Needed moving textures (some pipeflow), great ressource to learn from
Very personal way to build collisionboxes for some objects.
Edit: Really great stuff. Your Holomaterials are very cool and good commented.

Happy Buyer

Hello there, Luftbauch!
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

[zeOrb]

Hi El Presidente,
some weirdoquestions ahead, from an amateur.
About M_Utility_Demo_Float: When i drag SG_Cone in map and Apply M_Utility_Demo_Float, the cone is floating.
When i drag (for example) SG_Box / SG_Hex (Mesh) into map and apply same material, it start only to float, after uniform scale +/- for me.

Greetings, User!
Indeed, there is a problem in the way how floating is calculated and it will be fixed in 1.0.2

I've been using Frac that outputs decimal part of Object position / 0.2 from Divide node to set random max height of floating. So, if you use snapping for object movement then your Object position is an integer that does not have decimal part from dividing by 0.2 and you had to move/scale/rotate object a little bit to get it working. To fix it - simply change 0.2 from Divide node to 0.164231 or any similar value!

When i stand up on a floating cube with same material, i get black flickering onto mat/text, player position is not updatet, along the collisionbox (not floating). Texturediving.

It is the main drawback of such vertex animation - it's only visual, without any logic applied. However it's muuuch cheaper than any other animation so it's great tool to use on objects which player can't access, but could see!

About Material editing T_Basic_Grid: I tried to archieve some pipeflow effect with the SG_Meshes, and when i swap the textures with red dots it flows in one axis direction. When i apply green dots, it follows another axis, along mesh.
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Your Holomaterial and the seperation of the colors, to accomplish the movement is so nice and easy editable.

Is it right, to control the aligment of textureshifting, inside the material editor"M_SuperGrid_Holo***, "Generate UV for small and big grids"-"PatternX"-"PatternY"?
I do not really understand, how this channelsplitting works, tried many seamless patterns, looking good, but never like expected.

Actually it is simpler than you thought, but I like your idea much more than current implementation and will try to add this in new versions of the pack!

These panners are doing all the job and you could change speed for X/Y in their settings. As you can see - it's impossible to access this values directly, so I will recreate panner node with ability to use texture masks to move stuff.

[Luftbauch]

Ty for your kind words El Presidente,
I am total sucked into these materials like a cottonwool ball into a tornado.
I made a window segment with blender (no "overlapping" when you see it from outside), for wall-BP-window and it works nice, but can you tell me please how to align them centered onto these small bars?
Is there a magic option inside the blueprint, before i try to rearrange all origins?