Multi-pass rendering is a bit of an adventure in Unreal Engine. Here are some notes on how to get this working in Unreal Engine 5.5, using the layers system. Results are not quite what I had expected, but we can work around that. Let’s take a look at everything that’s involved. Project Settings In your …
Narrative Tales and Pro excel at dialogues, and they can be kicked off manually upon interactions with NPCs and objects like smart appliances, telephones, anything really. All we need is a brand new dialogue object and flesh it out. Open it up and select the Class Defaults, then populate the participants of this dialogue. It’s …
Endless engine changes means documentation from a few months ago can get outdated overnight, which is one of the downsides of “cutting edge” software. How rude indeed. Brushify is a good example, where the process of adding a brand new landscape object and trying to get the included material layer system going isn’t as straightforward …
Materials sometimes come as packed maps, like the ones we get from Quixel for Unreal Engine. If we wanted to make a change to those textures in Substance Painter, we can use the Grayscale Conversion generator to setup the material. Here’s how to do that. Let’s assume we have an ORM map. This means that …
We can use iClone’s Morph Creator to import morph targets and subsequently animate them. While it’s easy to create single morphs, it can be convenient to have a single slider to animate related morphs on related meshes. Think of an expression morph that also adjusts the hair, or part of their clothing. Those are technically …
Fetch quests are missions in which the player needs to go off and collect something, often in multiple quantities. For this example we’ll collect three bones for an NPC. I’ll create a new interactable blueprint for this, making it a child of Story Framework’s Interactable Base BP. I’ll add three copies of this class into …
We often see an effect whereby the third person player camera seamlessly transitions to a custom view to show something important in the level, then transitions back. There’s many variations of this theme, but the easiest way to achieve it in UE is by using Set View Target with Blend. Here’s an example of how …
Some events in the demo level create a custom pop-up at the bottom right if the screen. Those can be nice to inform the player of things to pay attention to, but that distinguish themselves from a subtitle or a task. If you successfully finish the Quick Time Even in the demo level, you’ll get …
Story Framework 4.1 introduced a new feature called Story Choices. With them we can give the player a choice to make with potentially devastating consequences. They’re easy to setup as part of the SF Sequence Manager component and can be reacted to with a Switch on String. Each choice can have a consequential tag that …
Story Framework has a feature called Subtitles, with which we can bring up text whenever we feel the need. This works great for informing players about things around them, as well as interior dialogues the player may have with themselves. They’re really easy to create thanks to the Play Sound with Subtitles node. Here’s an …