![]() Well, let’s get onto the interesting now! So, how do I change material colour or other properties at runtime?įirst of all we need to understand, that you cannot edit the material attached to an mesh directly at Runtime. The whole Unreal Engine 4 project being used is available on my Gitlab profile or following through the link here: Īll the code written by myself is licensed under the MIT License, the unreal engine and the base template are copyrighted by Epic Games. The reason for creating these blog posts is to release more knowledge about using C++ in UE4, as there’s tons for blueprints, but not so much for C++. ![]() With these mini tutorials, I’ll be explaining small implementations of features that are helping me learn the engine. In the next instalment we are going to look at some event based elements, maybe looking at building a teleporter.Recently, I have started to learn about Unreal Engine 4 and C++ programming to up my skills. I've barely scratched the surface of what you can do with post effects here but it should have given you enough of a glimpse to get your teeth into things and start really pushoing your own visual style. I also tinted mine with a touch of blue to help everything gel. I'm not overly fond of the depth of shadow in the level, so I'm going to increase the GI intensity to compensate, rather than adding in more lights or adjusting others. If you are used to working in 3d software you probably know about GI, which in this situation is the effect of ambient lighting. There are methods to force focus on a target object as well but that's outside the space we have here.įocusing on the level not the character object helps push the player into the scene more. Normally I would use the more visually pleasing Bokeh type. I went for circle for this as it's easier to demonstrate for you by pushing the effect. We can also set the focus distance and blur type here. A lower number means a bigger aperture and therefore more blur. This is where certain distances from the camera become blurred, depending on the size of the aperture of the lens. To add a touch of cinematic feel to the game and also help guide the player a little you can add some depth of field. Click compile and save, then head back to the level editor and play the level, to see the effect.Ī little desaturation helps add a touch of grittiness to the level. You can do this by RGB channel individually, although I chose to turn all down the same to. I feel things look a bit over saturated, so open up the Colour Grading section and reduce the saturation to a lower figure. The main thing I want to tackle here is the colour. Most of what we want is folded into the post process settings area. Click the arrow next to Post Process Settings, to unfold the options we need. What we are looking to adjust is our first person view and the settings for this will show in the details area, once the camera is selected, just like in most areas of UE4, so select the camera and check out the options. This includes a few items we won't touch, from the forward vector, the arms and weapons and so on. ![]() Now you have the editor open you will see your character object in the viewer. You can easily start editing premade blueprints by selecting them from the correct menu, even if they don't show in the outliner. You should see your player, with a camera attached. This opens the blueprint editor, at which point select Viewport from the 3 main viewer tabs. Open up your level and from the row of icons above the main view click on the arrow next to blueprints, then select Open Blueprint class and choose firstpersoncharacter from the drop down menu. Part 1: Setting up a new project Part 2: Introducing materials and landscapes Part 3: Adding foliage and rocks Part 4: Particle smoke Part 5: Introducing the skybox Open up your level and let's get started. As it stands the level looks a bit bright, over-saturated and lacking in subtle cues to aid the viewer along the narrative, so we will use some tools, like depth of field to help us out. ![]() One thing we haven't looked at is rendered output, so in this instalment we will look at cameras and post effects, bringing a little more custom style to our level. ![]() If you've been following along then by now you should have a pretty good grasp on how Unreal Engine likes to do things and also have a pretty solid level to be experimenting with. Set up cameras and post-effects in your environment with part 6 of Rob Redman's video tutorial series for Unreal Engine. ![]()
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