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the show off is very true...

Extremely helpful and simple system. The one I was using before was needlessly complex. This made it infinitely easier to do what I wanted to, thank you.

Hi, can you tell me how we can implement it in 2D open world kind of game ?

I have never related more to anything than that comment about the wikipedia article. What is the point of writing an article that is supposed to give information in a way where people can't get information from it?

I feel that entire Star Trek DS9 is what you're describing here.

These videos are a goldmine

Thank you for making that video! It helps me so much <3

I would love to see a tutorial using this on a VR fullbody character. The VR community is hurting for a GOOD Unreal solution. I'm guessing you could put a sphere in each hand of a third person character to work out the blueprints then later replace the spheres with the VR controller locations ?

One good thing to add could be that for 3rd person games that need this text to appear as you've made it, and then to disappear and return the input mode to game only.

loving all these writing videos! ive been trying to incorporate your outer wilds exploration techniques video ideas into a citizen sleeper/disco elysium esque resource management/skill check narrative-based game where the player might see a screen with a dropslot for any item the player might want to submit, they put in the obvious solution and move on, but they are still allowed to backtrack to that screen, and following exploration techinques, that dropslot actually does accept a secret 2nd solution item which opens up an entire hidden region of the game, would you have any first impressions and thoughts on how to go about applying exploration techniques from a realtime exploration game into a more visual novel kind of narrative game? hahaha

as someone who has mostly focused on art rather than writing this is a huge help for me

So, just stumbled upon this and while it's maybe not the best it looks freaking cool.

This is so helpful! I'm working on a game based sround old biplanes, and I was trying to think up a way for players to travel without running out of fuel, crashing, etc. It never occurred to me to just use a world map to travel between smaller, malped out areas where action occurs.

Great video. Made the gears turn quite a bit and they still are after it ended. Thanks for the food for thought

Despite having the possibility for creating interesting situations I believe this approach might be too adversarial for player character, especially when repeated over the course of the game. As such I believe this falls more into the operational side of storytelling rather than strategical level

Your videos are very underrated

Is it safe to save TMaps instead of TArrays?

Hey thanks for this video. I was using the buoyancy system to tell the player when they enter/exit water but noticed it was working properly only about 80% of the time which led to me adding in all this nonsense code to handle the other 20%. Was ready to give up until I stumbled across this video and decided to make something to suit my needs. Made a single particle, updated it based on wave height, then I made a custom blueprint particle and added functionality to get wave height / relative height / set water component / change update frequency, plus event dispatchers for entering and exiting water. Unlike the buoyancy system, it can be attached to other scene components (e.g. meshes / cameras), and was surprised to find it always works and doesn't go "silent". The official buoyancy system seems to only work if it is close to the water, which is annoying but wouldn't be the end of the world if it actually worked properly in terms of leaving / entering water. Anyway I have it working as required now, with one on my first person camera, another on my third person camera, and I know exactly when any of them enters or leaves the surface for my transitions. In the future I may consider building a proper buoyancy system (cuboids) that doesn't turn off when objects start underwater. Since I'm only using a few particles now, it runs fine, but I'm not sure how well it will scale to 8 particles across hundreds of objects though, but at least now I have a some control over it and can tweak it to improve performance.

Still to this day a great tutorial. Thanks!

What I realize is that my biggest problem with most game I don't end up fully enjoying is this transition from one "chunk" to another. It's a thought act to balance on some games because there is also more things involved, like complex narrative, but getting the right flow between "chunks" should always be top priority.

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Lovely to see a new video of yours!🎉

great thoughts, agree with you, but you helped me to formulate this! thank you

dude, your mood here is unbearable;) to be honest i don't remember that sequence, so i probably didn't have so much issues with it

Also you cant simply arrange things according to intrigue, you must first arrange them acccording to verisimilitude. For example if something is placed for intrigue or to fill space but it might not make sense anyone would build it there or as another example, leave a visible dubgeon unlooted, we cannot allow for that kind of design.

How would you say fallout new vegas differs from skyrim in this domain?

This didn't directly help me with my specific issue but it got me there. I've been puzzling how to exit control rig logic without snapping and I saw you had some float plugged into the aim node weights then it clicked that you can simply feed an alpha into the rig and multiply it by whatever weight you want and lerp back to your bone transform. Anyway, you have an excellent way of explaining so keep on keeping on :)

I thought I had saving figured out until I watched this. I never thought about connecting script references during loading. Thanks for the heads up.

Do you know if this possible in a networked setting? Can this be done on a server?

Very interesting, thank you!

nice ty

Did you get past this? There is a pretty fundamental misunderstanding here with what an Actor is, adding multiple meshes to an actor and more. Hope you're doing better getting used to Unreal Engine

i think i invested 1 month equivalent of hours to search and mark the assets that i would need as a hobbyist.

this can be turned into a program/algorythm i can imagine. procedurally generated worlds dont have to be boring and random and directionless. using these lanes you can plant different teachings and lessons about your game along the nodes, not just different gameplay, that build upon each other like in a handcrafted experience. imagine a world that feels handcrafted but isnt and just has handcrafted-grade theory programmed into the world generation. there is no looking up secrets and tricks on the wiki because every world is unique and truly personal that you have to explore completely by yourself

You can also use the asset I have developed. It is in ue marketplace called "advanced typewriter effect". The demo showcase is in my yt channel :)

LiS is the game that introduced me to the amazing world of the story-rich/choices matter genre. I recently decided I would try making some (much smaller) games. I am so deeply enjoying this series and listening to your thoughts. Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this series <3 Grateful to learn many lessons from you.

the cops outside lol

Hey i know this is unrelated but it be cool if you started making stormworks videos again with all the new mechanics out

nice vid man!

3:44 is they removed this? In 1.11.0 gearboxes can't be overloaded

Now I just need a little advanced ply

i spaced them out by 1 block and it did not work lol

You've opened my eyes to the fact that I can remove the text box and have the players forcus on the visuals instead.

This was already VERY helpful! I can already imagine a number of ways of constraining dynamics, e.g. late game, player chooses the dungeon but each dungeon requires a specific party. Or having characters dip in and out of the main story for plot reasons (though that can present other challenges.)

To add, I think what you’re describing maps onto what many would call “pacing” without really understanding it. I also found it insightful that you were able to take Pokemon and analyze it through a lens more foundational than “the Pokemon,” i .e. connected blocks of content. Great stuff! Looking forward to the next one.

Interesting to hear Megaman broken down as though from a child’s first impression, rather than from my meta-gaming-ass perspective when I first tried it in high school. Gotta factor in cultural knowledge as well - “everyone knows you start with Chill Penguin!”

Glad I watched this. The protagonist of my space game is going to have a limited teleportation ability, so keeping some abstracted travel required will help serve as contrast, I feel. I probably need to do whatever I can to prevent it from feeling like “quick travel.”

Thank you so much! It was so helpful. The concept is relatively simple. Why couldn't Unity manage to include this information properly in their documentation?

Yeah it took me couple days to find out that "global" isn't "world"

I can't get mono developer to install do you a video on that