Vanguard of the Fallen - My EQ Based RPG Project

Blazin said:

That can be done , it’s not really the issue , there is no move to location client side I can only apply force in a direction. I’ll play with it again next week and maybe post a video of what it looks like .

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void PlayerController::AutoRun()
{
    if (!bAutoRunning) return;
    if (APawn* ControlledPawn = GetPawn())
    {
        const FVector LocationOnSpline = Spline->FindLocationClosestToWorldLocation(ControlledPawn->GetActorLocation(), ESplineCoordinateSpace::World);
        const FVector Direction = Spline->FindDirectionClosestToWorldLocation(LocationOnSpline, ESplineCoordinateSpace::World);
        ControlledPawn->AddMovementInput(Direction);

        const float DistanceToDestination = (LocationOnSpline - CachedDestination).Length();
        if (DistanceToDestination <= AutoRunAcceptanceRadius)
        {
            bAutoRunning = false;
        }
    }
}

if (UNavigationPath* NavPath = UNavigationSystemV1::FindPathToLocationSynchronously(this, ControlledPawn->GetActorLocation(), CachedDestination))
            {
                Spline->ClearSplinePoints();
                for (const FVector& PointLoc : NavPath->PathPoints)
                {
                    Spline->AddSplinePoint(PointLoc, ESplineCoordinateSpace::World);
                    //DrawDebugSphere(GetWorld(), PointLoc, 8.f, 8, FColor::Green, false, 5.f); //Creates debug speheres to show SplinePoints
                }

                if (NavPath->PathPoints.Num() > 0)
                {
                    CachedDestination = NavPath->PathPoints[NavPath->PathPoints.Num() -1]; // Added if to fix out of bound error
                    bAutoRunning = true;
                }                             
            }

Blazin said:

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I'm going with a few specific references to EQ here and there but mostly new, doing the same with items. I want to have some of the iconic classic gear out of respect and nostalgia.

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Blazin said:

Saving on art has certainly helped with time. The more it goes on the more assets I just make myself but the textures are rather valuable to me. There was nothing from EQ that I could just slap in there, what took a while was coming up with a pipeline for how I do it then I was able to write (some of the first python code of my life) some basic scripts for Blender that helped me automate creating the materials and textures I needed.

As far as the game itself not one bit of it is EQ, it's 100% created by me in UE. I'm moving past that initial hurdle of learning and am able to spend more time building/creating.

Now most problems I know how to think through and implement the solution, in the beginning it was a real PITA because with no prior programming experience I had no framework for how to solve problems. As far as overall game making pace. I'm borderline obsessive with things (my wife would say there is no border) I work about 70hrs a week on this, I have not taken a day off from it since March.

The thoughts are just beginning to creep in for me thinking about the next project. Largely because I can't do anything with this because of the rights issue. There are things I'm not happy with, movement animations as an example, but since those models aren't mine I'm not going to dump the hundreds of hours into it to resolve. They aren't horrible but they aren't where I would want things for something that was truly mine.

My #1 goal with this project is to learn and second hopefully create a fun game play experience that some people could enjoy. I feel the need to get this into more hands soon because if someone does like it that is fuel to keep at it. I can't do anything about someone just not wanting this type of play experience. I think of my own gaming experience and the games I've paid good money for that I uninstall at hour 5 made by huge studios and then look at what I have here and I don't know if its my own creator bias but I feel like I'm making something that people could get 50+hrs out of rather easily. It's not dark souls, I'm just a guy and a neophyte at that. It's the kind of game you can play and maybe do some work or post here while you wait for a spawn. The group play has been fun and I'm working on pacing I'm not going to ask anyone to Korean MMO grind their way through this my hope is someone plays it and says "Yeah that was a cool Classic EQ type of experience" not something I would expect them to be poop socking 10 months later.

There are several games that I would love to make but I need the experience to learn to properly make them and hopefully just enough people to help motivate me to make things for. I have an advantage over many in that I don't care about financial success, this is doing something because I love it. I'd be on cloud nine to someday release a game on steam and 3000 people play it. With this project I know there are people who share a similar gaming experience to me (this forum is full of them) that have some nostalgia for this type of game.

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