Golf Game Alpha

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https://streamable.com/hblv0f
looking for feedback, first game with physics i made

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why i think that it is 2 hours project.

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as far as not much done with it yet ?

it took me awhile to get those arrows going in the right direction on the green

the rest took a couple hours

well theres a lot of math tbh

[marble stratus]

that is the material trick for arrows, by the way how did you achieved

[latent owl]

then i used that zero to one in a rotator, but i had to make a few adjustments first

but this is the basic formula

i ended up not having to sample all around so thats a plus

https://streamable.com/44p2rc

once you have them pointed in the right direction, then you can animate by taking the angle (0-1) and creating a forward vector out of it

but i made it into a function

so you can just use it in any material

it's also localized to a radius

and runs smooth af

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Oh 🥹 now i understood you want them follow the slope, not just having the arrows pointing toward specific direction

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right, it was really difficult

tbh because i never done anything like that before

you can't really google it either

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yes and also animate with wind, but the arrows don't rotate with wind i have not got that far, but they animate with wind added

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i will definitely try this challenge for me,
It gives so many good effects if done correctly

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Yeah once i saw some video on youtube some one did that but not in unreal engine some AAA company

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i get a solid 70ps while it's running

and i have an older machine

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theres also the grid system
https://streamable.com/7o6tp3

the arrows are on top of it, but in the same reference but they have there own scale value as well

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That's awesome
What you think if such system is done in niagara that some kind of particles is coming to the vallies of the landscape

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idk much about niagara, i just used them for little effects

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i have some how that much knowledge, what i mentioned.

In niagara there are many possibilities of it

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this is actually super cool and usefull

but i just wanted to try to do it, because it seemed impossible lol

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i enabled all messages notifications for this post so i will not forget what i will try.

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sure try it, if you need help just ask if i'm around i'll answer

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It massively improved

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i shut the arrows off on flat surfaces unless there is wind

because they defaulted to a direction and it was just weird

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That one thing makes too sense

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https://streamable.com/5lay3u

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What is there are some wind particles and if they are changed the arrow are also changed

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there is no wind particles yet, and the arrows going the direction of the wind i got working for the flat surfaces but on slopes they still point down slope, then just animate towards the wind

so when the wind blows uphill, those go slower then downhill

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Currently I am preparing for GMTK game jam are you interested?

@latent owl we are team of 18 members

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What if the color changed from below the surface

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wdym ?

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If The target circle color is like landscape would be great

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you mean make it green like the landscape ?

maybe more transparent ?

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Yes it's color should be the invert color of landscape at the point it is placed
Like the id the landscape color bellow is which the circle should be black, if landscape color is black it should be white and same for other colors

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i see what you mean like a contrast

i kind of like how it sets with the ui color though

i consider it part of the ui

but i'll consider making it have a good contrast against darker to lighter colors on the landscape

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probably make the outline do this , i'll give it a shot

i was hoping to keep this all blueprints

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so set it up so different physical materials set the color to whatever instead of actually inverting, so i just find the physical material then depending on what it is set the outline color

https://streamable.com/xjjrm0

simple solution to a complex problem

but i kind of just like it to be having just the outline color stay the same tbh

if i need to contrast i will use this technique

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