Monday, June 8, 2015

Making a First Person Shooter in Unreal Engine - Part 2

So I am now a little more than halfway done with tutorial for making a FPS level in Unreal Engine. Here are a couple screenshots of what I think was the most valuable in the tutorial:


The screenshot about is the network I made for the flotation of targets that will be around the level. These targets have a static mesh and a particle system that make it look like they are floating thanks to a couple of rockets on the bottom of the target.

But since it would be weird to just have the target levitating perfectly still, we added this effect that moves the object ever so slightly up-and-down. Also, I added a delay with a random value to make sure that each target doesn't move at the exact same time.


Next was a brief introduction into Widget Blueprints, this is a builtin way for Unreal Engine to display a UI to your player. For now I have just set up the 4 different elements in the UI to keep track of the ammo the player has and the current time that the player has spent on the level. On the next few lessons I will learn how to do Data Bindings so the UI can update in real time.

That's all for now, thanks for reading!

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