Working with collisions we set our Ray Cast to print out to the output log what Objects we were colliding with within our world. It was also set that we couldn’t collide or register that it had collided with an object if that object type wasn’t set to PhysicsBody. Now…

Continuing to work on our Building Escape game we need to get our character in game to be able to start “Reach”ing out and grabbing items. The first thing we need to make sure that we do is to that we need to make sure that our Ray Casting is…

Within our game of escaping the room we want the player to be able to just barely escape the door before the door closes again when they leave the pressure plate. What if we wanted to make it so that the player has to pick up an object and place…

“Triggers” and “TriggerVolumes” what are they in Unreal and what can they do? When talking about “Triggers” within UE4 it is basically an Actor that is used to cause an event to occur when they are interacted with within your world by another Actor or object. A “Trigger Volume” is…

This week’s blog is about getting not just doors but Actors within your world to rotate or move, we will be opening and closing a door as an example on how this all works within the Unreal Engine. We will do this with the help of FRotator, which is a…

When working with textures and materials within the Unreal Engine you can find a texture for your world of basically any shape, color, design or image you want. But sometimes the one texture that you find just isn’t scaled or squared off correctly to the object you are placing it…

When building and creating your worlds and levels within the Unreal Engine, you have the ability to be able to create and use light sources as you wish. There are a number of ways to add lights and even a number of different light sources that can be used within…

Hearing “Binary Space Partitions” alone already sounds like something extremely complicated, but that would be the complete opposite. BSP is the process in which you use simple geometry to create a layout, a framework, of your level or environment. These geometric shapes are what are called “BSP brushes” within the…

Within the Unreal Engine, components work the same as other languages where a component is useful for sharing common behaviors between Objects or Actors. Components within the Unreal Engine are the only way to render meshes, implement collision between objects, or even play audio. Everything that a player can see…