My game project help thread

[Chay Hawk]

im making a day and night cycle but when i go to animate the directional light by rotating it, when the animation plays it doesnt rotate in the straight line, it like bows off to the left and spins and then gets to the end why does it do that?

[JessieG]

They probably just took a single top down screenshot and fixed it up in photoshop (that's definitely NOT a screen capture right from the engine. There was photo editing involved.)

You need a good understanding of Unreal script to make it work. Code that knows the length and width of the level and the map that can use an algorithm to determine, based off of your location, where to put a marker.

[JessieG]

Ok, it's cool that you're so invested in your project and you're looking for help, but maybe it'd be best that you keep your project to one thread. You're flooding the forum with different threads and then now you completely changed this thread to some other topic. It's a bit confusing.

[alvarofer0021]

...why you posted a picture of the dead island map

[JessieG]

...why you posted a picture of the dead island map

This was a thread asking how to make a map similar to the one in dead island and he changed it for some reason after I answered. Which is why I suggested he just make one thread for his project so stuff like this won't happen.

[Chay Hawk]

I realize I have made a ton of threads, thats why I changed this one so I wouldnt make more., im going to keep all my questioms in this thread from now on.

[Chay Hawk]

ok so back to my questions

1. im making a day and night cycle but when i go to animate the directional light by rotating it, when the animation plays it doesnt rotate in the straight line, it like bows off to the left and spins and then gets to the end why does it do that? I was looking at this Day/night cycle example and he was able to get the light to rotate with kismit, so why cant i?

2. Is there any way possible i can use some C++ code in UDK? I'd rather not learn Uscript even though there pretty similar.

[Graylord]

1. Use the graph viewer in matinee to check if the animations is clean.

2. Not dirctly, you can use BindDLL to implement some C++, but you'll still need to use Unrealscript for pretty much everything.

[Chay Hawk]

ok so back to my questions

1. im making a day and night cycle but when i go to animate the directional light by rotating it, when the animation plays it doesnt rotate in the straight line, it like bows off to the left and spins and then gets to the end why does it do that? I was looking at this Day/night cycle example and he was able to get the light to rotate with kismit, so why cant i?

2. Is there any way possible i can use some C++ code in UDK? I'd rather not learn Uscript even though there pretty similar.

[Graylord]

1. Use the graph viewer in matinee to check if the animations is clean.

2. Not dirctly, you can use BindDLL to implement some C++, but you'll still need to use Unrealscript for pretty much everything.

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[JessieG]

I have no idea what's going on at this point either.

[Chay Hawk]

Hmm, ok i'll check that stuff out.

[Chay Hawk]

Is it possible to Animate characters, weapons, and vehicles using Matinee and the curve editor?

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this light to rotate properly, i cannot find anything online about it either, i did a google search for about 25 minutes and i searched the forums here. If i figure this out im making a tutorial on it.

also

I found out that it UDK does import the speedtree but in order to see it i have to restart the UDK, why is this? is there a fix to it? my speed tree stuff is in my UDK content folder.

[Chay Hawk]

Bump, please help.

[Chay Hawk]

In addition to my other questions, in speed tree i have a palm tree and the frond (leaves) arent attached to the trunk, so the trunk moves and sways in the breeze but the frond stays in place, how do i fix this?

[Chay Hawk]

Someone please help.