Working Title: Hero Quest

[BlackHornet80]

Hi all,

after long years of other interest I finally returned to Unreal Engine. Last project I managed was my UT2k3 mod Global Warzone ... but thats just about my person and the past.

Our next project will be a game with rules and playstyle, like the good old table top HeroQuest
(maybe some of you can remember...perhaps the older ones, like me )

For this I started with an old friend (modeller, animator) that project.

Some core features will be:
- fully integrated level editor (no UEd needed to creat new maps)
- fully dynamic created levels
- rule set from good old HeroQuest
- point & click, round based gameplay
- up to 5 people per network (1 Morcar + max. 4 Heroes)
- nice meshs, music and fight animations (something like battlechess )


Finally I will present my current work process here...currently the map is made in UEd, but the mobs are spawned by code.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Bo3Rpdqu4

Finishing the LevelManager using the LevelGeometry-Factory will be the next bigger step (including a side view on loading and saving data)

Some more Vids will follow
BlackHornet

[Quade]

nice work
how did you do the point and click, might i ask? i need something like that for my project.

[BlackHornet80]

I did it with a simple Trace...

Each floor tile is a single static mesh, so i trace the static meshes and position a decal above its location, this is handled by the HUD in the PostRender() function.

[rahatropa]

nice work
how did you do the point and click, might i ask? i need something like that for my project.

There is a great point-and-click tutorial in the Programming section of these forums, the author is roychr.

[LordsWarrior]

Once you have selected a square, how does the character choose to get there?
FOr example is ther path finding for it they are in a hallway?

Looks good so far man!

-LW

[BlackHornet80]

No pathfinding yet, only a MoveTo() at the moment.

But it will be needed later i suppose, if we have doors the characters can moove through. But due to the fact moving distance will be limited later on (a character may move 6 fields), we need a different approach to solve this "problem".

[FrontAXL]

Nice work so far. I'm really interested in the visuals you'll create for the traps.

I'm one of those 'older ones' that remembers Hero Quest. I still own it. I think I even get extra nerd points because I painted all the pieces.

[LordsWarrior]

No pathfinding yet, only a MoveTo() at the moment.

But it will be needed later i suppose, if we have doors the characters can moove through. But due to the fact moving distance will be limited later on (a character may move 6 fields), we need a different approach to solve this "problem".

so are you calling moveTo from another controller to their pawns?

how do you do it exactly, are you first adding a move target like: pawn1.contoller.moveStartTarget = selectedTile;
pawn1.contoller.gotoState('scriptedMove')
?

-LW

[BlackHornet80]

Yes, something like that, in my case its a function in my own AIController class:

function OnAIMoveToPosition(Vector aPosition)
{
  MoveDestination = aPosition;
  if(!IsInState('MoveToLocation')){
    `log("Current State: "@GetStateName());
    PushState('MoveToLocation');
  }
}

[nickmarks]

looks like you have some nifty code there. Good work!

I remember the game you mention with fond memories

[BlackHornet80]

thanks for the comments...

and for all of interest, more infos and contact with our team is available at http://www.mirage-development.de, there you can find our forum too, just go to Support and there will be the link

(attention: everything is in German!!), sry for all others, who cannot talk/read/write german

[BlackHornet80]

Hell ya,

got my XML-DOM-Parser to work, read and parse a xml file of any structure. next step is the possibility to create a DOM-Tree and save it on disk...load and save level-description will be next step then => fully custom created levels, ingame integrated level editor => UEd wont be needed any longer to create levels for my game *g* (only for the upk-files)

[BlackHornet80]

And something new after a few days...a new test with a basic xml level content structure...

The floortile is a custom mesh now, same mesh, same material on every plate, but each looks slightly different (thx to my artist for that thing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6eXIH3ItM

[Eildalior]

Nice project, and less expensive ^^
Wait and I want to see the next ! Good luck and courage.

[geodav]

i remember HeroQuest but i went for Space Crusade

board games i mean

looking good so far