Wuxia Corner, Android Game Development

  

"Unreal Engine 5.3 Action RPG Engine" with 3D Open-World, 3D Ancient Warriors, Blueprint and C++ Scripting, Landscape Editor, Animation Classes, AnimGraphs, Enemy AI, HD Raycasting, RPG Stats and RPG Hud GUI, and HD Game Movie Project with Video Sequencer

"Unreal Engine 5.3 Action RPG Engine" is a Unreal Engine 5.1 Project Template for developing Real-Time Strategy and RPG games.

- Unreal Engine 5.1 HD raycasting and illumination

- Unreal Engine Landscape Tool Editor and Blueprint scripting for level interaction and exploration using the Unreal World Partition

- Open-World 3D Landscape and town for RTS and RPGs for PC and Mobile

- Visual Studio C++ Solution for Custom Actor Classes (with Unreal's Live Coding) and Visual Blueprint Scripting for Level Interaction scripting with Unreal's Scripting Library

- 3D Character Animation supporting FBX Animation and Enemy AI C++ Scripting (with an Ancient Warrior and Hell Hound) using Animation Classes, and AnimGraph Blueprints

- Game Movie Instructions:

The Sequencer Game Movie Level is in MovieSceneMap (UnrealRPGProject2\Content\EnvironmentPack2\Maps).    Select  the Sequence Camera in the World Outliner and Open the  sequencer from the Details  panel.  You should have a track for the Actor and the Cine Camera where  you can lock the LocRotScale parameter of the Actor (or  other  game objects in the level).  You can refresh the Thumbnails by right clicking on its track and choosing Thumbnails->Refresh.  Pressing Play (in the Playback controls) shows the sequence camera trajectory and the Actor animation and physical movement.  You can insert new Animation sequences for the Character  Actor by right-clicking on the Actor track and selecting a new animation from the Animation category (such as Idle, running, walking or attacking).  You can position and oriet (LocRotScale) the Actor and from the World Viewport  and  then locking it in the timeline  of the Actor Track by clicking the Actor Tracking (Name Label) and pressing “Enter”.  Press the  Generate RenderMovie to generate an .AVI (or .MP4)  in a chosen output folder.

Download the latest version (Unreal 5.3 - 6.0 GB - RPG engine + Movie)

Download previous version (Unreal 5.3 - 6.0 GB - RPG engine + Movie) Sequencer)

Download the previous version here (RPG Engine only) (4.8 GB) or here (4.5 GB)

Download Movie Sequencer (Game Engine Move Project + Sequencer) (Unreal 5.1 Virtual Movie Projection + Sequencer) 

View the  documentation here

Instructions - 

 

The C++ source files are stored in C:\Users\Andrew\UnrealProjects\UnrealRPGProject2\Source\ and the Visual Studio C++ solution is UnrealRPGProject2.sln.  You can open the Visual Studio C++ solution from the Windows Explorer independently from the Unreal Editor.

 

Remember to Build the Level and Lighting (Build HLODs) for the textures to show up in the Level Editor Viewport.  Ctrl+Alt_F11 to initiate the "Live Coding" Building Syncing for Visual Studio and Blueprint.  Right  Click on World Partition and Load Maps to load the Desert Level.

 

Game Actors come with a Blueprint (filename suffixed BP which can be opened in the Blueprint Editor) alongside the C++ Actor class counterpart. To use the Hell Hound Blueprint (Enemy Actor), right click it in the Content Browser and choose "Reload" (located in the Wolf Folder).  The player character “Ancient Warrior” is stored in the Character Folder.

 

The game levels are ThirdPersonMap  and MainMap (a Forest Canyon and a Canyon Level), the Visual Studio C++ Project Solution is the UnrealRPGProject2.sln solution which contains some custom C++ Actor Class code (Player Controller, AI and some GUI interface Code) and the Blueprint Visual Node scripts are stored in MyBlueprints folder for level interaction (switches, pickups and objective points).

References:

- Sam's Unreal Engine 4 Game Development in 24 Hours 

- Unreal Engine 5 RPG Development with C++ and Blueprint (Volume 1: Basics, Combat, and VFX) by Dr. Chihming Chiu