Devlog 76: Talent system code deep dive
In this video, I go through some of the code supporting the talent system which is integrated with the Unreal Engine MMO game that I'm developing. The server is written…
Devlog 75 Progress update: Talent system intro
The progress update is covered in the video below. It is introducing a new talent system into the MMO game. The talent system allows for passive and augment type talents…
Devlog 74: How to integrate ALS with custom character mesh
In this post, we explore how we can integrate a complex custom mesh with ALS. The first part is documented in this video: https://youtu.be/I6hfiTmdEqc?si=_Myi8U9HoUFtReTX The video is adding ALS into…
Log69: How to make a hovering widget display near your mouse in UE5
In this short post we'll look at how we can make a widget pop up near the mouse and follow it. This use-case is for a widget to display information…
DevLog68: Introduce Status to our game – how to handle respawn
Part of our game, we introduced a lot of functionality now, including combat system and character stats. The post on character stats can be found here. This post will focus…
Log67: Getting modular item set for my character in UE5
A little while ago, I introduced a system/framework which allowed me to model items in my game. This would be a pre-requisite to this post, though I cover some aspects…
66. Push your UE project to a remote repository, for FREE!
In this post, we look at pushing our UE project to a remote repository for free. Unreal engine projects are large. Given their size, many platforms such as Github will…
65. Deploying a custom java server to the cloud!
In this post we explore how Terraform was used to deploy the application to the cloud. The cloud of choice was Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb This is mainly because I will be…
Devlog 64: How to add drag and drop to inventory in UE
Handling inventory is a relatively complicated topic. It's been covered in multiple posts and here are some of them: 33. How to create animated character in widget using Unreal Engine…
Devlog 63: How I made a persistable action bar in UE5
I've previously made an action bar for the game, which was covered in: devlog 53: making good action bar devlog 54: enabling drag and drop for action bar items Now…