1 00:00:04,350 --> 00:00:05,340 ‫Hello and welcome. 2 00:00:05,340 --> 00:00:11,520 ‫In this lecture, we're going to be implementing a level design for our obstacle assault course. 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:16,260 ‫You can see here, I've added in some more islands and a little victory end zone at the end. 4 00:00:16,260 --> 00:00:21,240 ‫We're going to talk about my process for doing this and getting out some pen and paper and making our 5 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:22,440 ‫own level designs. 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,810 ‫Let's dive in and get started. 7 00:00:25,430 --> 00:00:30,800 ‫So let's try and spend a moment to design a level out of the different components we've got here. 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:31,700 ‫Here's my approach. 9 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:37,370 ‫I'm going to start with what kind of permutations and options of obstacle do I have? 10 00:00:37,370 --> 00:00:44,060 ‫So what elements can I play with to design this level we've got rotating versus moving. 11 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:46,250 ‫That's one of the key elements we could fiddle with. 12 00:00:46,250 --> 00:00:51,050 ‫We got up or down or left and right, so you could have platforms that transport you across a gap. 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,190 ‫You could have up and down to take you up a level like we've already shown. 14 00:00:55,580 --> 00:00:58,970 ‫We've got the pushing slash transporting option. 15 00:00:58,970 --> 00:01:04,280 ‫So platforms can be used to push you off of something so they can be an obstacle to avoid or they can 16 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,400 ‫transport you, in which case they're an obstacle that you want to get on. 17 00:01:07,610 --> 00:01:10,580 ‫So those are some of the options that we've got available here. 18 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:19,100 ‫Let's have a look in this case at a simple linear course through our obstacle assault course, where 19 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:24,200 ‫basically the whole objective is just to get from the start to the end. 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,180 ‫And there aren't any kind of diversions. 21 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:30,320 ‫You can't take a shortcut, you can't take an option B path. 22 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:35,570 ‫So what I suggest you do is you take this and you take a sheet of paper and you get away from your computer 23 00:01:35,570 --> 00:01:38,750 ‫for a little bit and just brainstorm a few different designs. 24 00:01:38,750 --> 00:01:46,430 ‫I recommend that you try fitting the design on one sheet of paper so that you just limit the scope because 25 00:01:46,430 --> 00:01:52,040 ‫it's very easy to get carried away with all the amazing things that you could do and just take on a 26 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:52,970 ‫little bit too much. 27 00:01:52,970 --> 00:01:55,550 ‫So we're going to try and limit the scope to just one sheet. 28 00:01:55,550 --> 00:01:57,290 ‫In my case, it was a sheet of A5. 29 00:01:57,290 --> 00:01:59,750 ‫You can have a sheet of A4 if you want to. 30 00:02:00,110 --> 00:02:05,870 ‫Here's the example of what I've come up with really very quick and dirty, just to give me an idea of 31 00:02:05,870 --> 00:02:06,800 ‫what I want. 32 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:11,070 ‫And this is just going to be something that I can adapt later on. 33 00:02:11,070 --> 00:02:14,670 ‫And you can see it's incorporating some elements of the design that we've already got. 34 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:18,410 ‫We've got the up and down platforms that take us up to a second level. 35 00:02:18,410 --> 00:02:21,710 ‫We've got the pushers going backwards and forwards. 36 00:02:21,710 --> 00:02:24,860 ‫We've got these rotating platforms that we need to get across. 37 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,100 ‫Then I thought maybe it would be nice to have the idea of a sweeper. 38 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:34,940 ‫So something like a pusher where it rotates around and tries to sweep us off the platform or something 39 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:41,630 ‫like that, and then we'll have some goal at the end, maybe something to to reach that looks cool and 40 00:02:41,630 --> 00:02:44,600 ‫makes it clear that we've got to the end of the obstacle course. 41 00:02:44,780 --> 00:02:46,340 ‫So that's my idea. 42 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:50,120 ‫And I'd like to challenge you to make your own level design too. 43 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,310 ‫So limit yourself to one sheet of paper. 44 00:02:52,310 --> 00:02:57,560 ‫As I said, share your results once you're done, choose the design you like the best and share it in 45 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:02,960 ‫the discussions before you go and implement it and then try and implement it for yourself. 46 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,550 ‫We've seen how we can make different blueprints for different elements, so you might have a few more 47 00:03:07,550 --> 00:03:11,840 ‫elements that you've incorporated in your design, so you can go ahead and make a few more blueprints 48 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,640 ‫and put them in the world. 49 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:16,700 ‫So let your design adapt as you play it as well. 50 00:03:16,750 --> 00:03:19,190 ‫Once you've written it on paper, you don't have to stick to it. 51 00:03:19,190 --> 00:03:22,520 ‫It's not a rule, it's just an idea to get you started. 52 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,740 ‫So pause the video and have a go. 53 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:28,230 ‫Okay. 54 00:03:28,230 --> 00:03:29,310 ‫Welcome back. 55 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:35,850 ‫So the bit that I wanted to add on top of this level design that we've already got is perhaps we'll 56 00:03:35,850 --> 00:03:43,350 ‫add a second platform in here and we'll rotate it around so that it doesn't look the same and lift it 57 00:03:43,350 --> 00:03:44,670 ‫up just another level. 58 00:03:44,670 --> 00:03:45,450 ‫So this is what I mean. 59 00:03:45,450 --> 00:03:51,030 ‫I'm already adapting the design because I've noticed that my I don't have any more space on this platform 60 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:54,660 ‫to put a pusher in there and then there are some stairs down here. 61 00:03:54,660 --> 00:03:55,730 ‫I kind of like those. 62 00:03:55,730 --> 00:04:03,810 ‫So I'm going to take a copy of this ramp and try and paste it down here. 63 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:06,150 ‫I want to actually move it up to the platform somehow. 64 00:04:06,150 --> 00:04:14,130 ‫So what I might do is take the location of one of these rotating platforms and copy it and click on 65 00:04:14,130 --> 00:04:19,950 ‫the ramp that I've duplicated and paste the location so that it comes up here. 66 00:04:19,950 --> 00:04:20,670 ‫Excellent. 67 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:28,680 ‫And now I'm going to try and position this ramp so that it takes us up to the next platform. 68 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:35,340 ‫So I'm going to have to adjust the height of the platform and adjust its position somewhat as well so 69 00:04:35,340 --> 00:04:37,710 ‫that it takes us nicely up there. 70 00:04:37,710 --> 00:04:43,920 ‫So so this is where using the play from here, it comes in really handy if we right click on just after 71 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:50,370 ‫we've gone past our rotating platforms, click play from here and see if we can get up these stairs. 72 00:04:50,410 --> 00:04:50,630 ‫Hmm. 73 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:52,080 ‫Looks like we can't. 74 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:57,210 ‫For some reason, I think the angle of these stairs is a little bit too steep. 75 00:04:57,210 --> 00:04:59,100 ‫So how can we fix that? 76 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:04,980 ‫Well, I can go over to the third person character, and I can click on its movement component. 77 00:05:04,980 --> 00:05:08,730 ‫And here there's a bunch of properties about how this character walks. 78 00:05:08,730 --> 00:05:13,980 ‫And you can see one of them is the walkable floor angle, and it's set to 44 degrees. 79 00:05:13,980 --> 00:05:17,010 ‫So it looks like we've got a bit of a steeper set of stairs. 80 00:05:17,010 --> 00:05:21,990 ‫So I'm just going to set this to 60 degrees to make sure we can make our way up it. 81 00:05:21,990 --> 00:05:26,820 ‫Then we're going to play from here again and see if we can get up there. 82 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:27,390 ‫Yep. 83 00:05:27,390 --> 00:05:31,890 ‫Sure enough, we can go up those stairs now that they're a little bit wider. 84 00:05:31,890 --> 00:05:33,690 ‫Now the platform's a little bit down. 85 00:05:33,690 --> 00:05:37,140 ‫So I'm going to adjust that and then I'm going to try and make a sweeper. 86 00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:39,330 ‫So we're going to go to our C++ class. 87 00:05:39,450 --> 00:05:44,070 ‫We're going to right click on it and create a blueprint class, and I'm going to call it the beep underscore 88 00:05:44,130 --> 00:05:44,970 ‫sweeper. 89 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,370 ‫I'm going to put it in the root of content. 90 00:05:47,370 --> 00:05:55,080 ‫Then with that open, I'm going to go to our content drawer and search for well, I quite like the look 91 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,720 ‫of these archways. 92 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:02,940 ‫If they were rotating, we'd have to kind of get inside of them and then move on without getting hit 93 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:04,860 ‫by them, which might be kind of interesting. 94 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:09,420 ‫So I'm adapting my design from what I had originally thought, but that's kind of cool. 95 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:11,790 ‫So we've got a large gate, that's what it's called. 96 00:06:11,790 --> 00:06:19,290 ‫Let's go to our content, draw inside a beep sweeper, go to all and search for large underscore gate 97 00:06:19,860 --> 00:06:22,290 ‫and I want the one without the force field. 98 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,550 ‫So that would be it looks like it's made up of two measures actually. 99 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,390 ‫So we've got the gate large and then the gate frame. 100 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:36,510 ‫So let's drag both of these in to the scene and that construct our gate rather nicely. 101 00:06:36,510 --> 00:06:40,740 ‫Now I think I'd like to make these a little bit wider. 102 00:06:40,740 --> 00:06:46,980 ‫So I'm going to use the scale tool and just extend them a little bit along the x axis and I'm going 103 00:06:46,980 --> 00:06:47,820 ‫to save that. 104 00:06:47,820 --> 00:06:51,600 ‫Then I'm going to look at our sweeper and we're going to not have it move. 105 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,950 ‫So set its platform velocity to zero, but set its rotation. 106 00:06:55,950 --> 00:07:00,660 ‫This time I'm going to go in the opposite direction at about -100. 107 00:07:00,660 --> 00:07:04,170 ‫So it's going to be a little bit faster and a little bit more challenging because we're later on in 108 00:07:04,170 --> 00:07:09,840 ‫the level and then we're going to try and navigate back to our island. 109 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:13,170 ‫So I'm going to click on it and get click go here. 110 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:18,930 ‫And then on top we can start placing down these sweepers. 111 00:07:18,930 --> 00:07:26,580 ‫So clear my filter and start getting some sweepers and sticking them on the island and we can rotate 112 00:07:26,580 --> 00:07:32,730 ‫them a little bit so that they are all at different offsets from each other and duplicate them with 113 00:07:32,730 --> 00:07:38,190 ‫alt a little bit here, like I say, I'm rotating some of them to everything. 114 00:07:38,190 --> 00:07:39,810 ‫Start slightly differently. 115 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:46,590 ‫Let's click play from here in the safe zone of our previous platform and then come up and have a look 116 00:07:46,590 --> 00:07:48,690 ‫at what these sweepers look like. 117 00:07:48,690 --> 00:07:53,670 ‫So yeah, it looks like they could definitely be pushing as if we don't watch ourselves and we might 118 00:07:53,670 --> 00:07:56,340 ‫fall off the platform if we're not careful. 119 00:07:56,340 --> 00:08:00,870 ‫So we have to be a little bit careful or we're going to fall to our deaths. 120 00:08:00,870 --> 00:08:04,680 ‫So it looks like a fun little puzzle with these sweepers. 121 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,890 ‫And now all we have to do is put a little end zone in for this. 122 00:08:07,890 --> 00:08:14,610 ‫I'm basically going to copy this little courtyard area that they've created here in the standard kit. 123 00:08:14,610 --> 00:08:20,160 ‫So I'm going to select the stairs and well, there's quite a few things here that I want to select. 124 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,400 ‫Let's see if they've gotten together in the outline of, first of all. 125 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,030 ‫So it looks like there is a folder called Castle. 126 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:33,580 ‫So maybe we can select everything that is under that folder so we can right click it and select all 127 00:08:33,580 --> 00:08:34,600 ‫descendants. 128 00:08:34,870 --> 00:08:43,240 ‫So what I'm going to do is actually use it in place and just move that island up to be at the foot of 129 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,230 ‫the island that we have just traversed here. 130 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,240 ‫So now it should be possible to play from here. 131 00:08:48,250 --> 00:08:51,190 ‫Let's go inside one of the pushers and then try and escape. 132 00:08:51,310 --> 00:08:52,110 ‫There we go. 133 00:08:52,120 --> 00:09:00,700 ‫We can get up to the Victory Island, and once we've got to the castle, that can be the goal of the 134 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:01,690 ‫entire game. 135 00:09:01,690 --> 00:09:07,570 ‫So one thing it looks like I messed up by moving that island is it seems that I've moved the ramp that 136 00:09:07,570 --> 00:09:10,370 ‫was under the same folder in the outlier. 137 00:09:10,450 --> 00:09:16,510 ‫So the ramp between our rotating platforms and our rotating pushers has been moved. 138 00:09:16,510 --> 00:09:22,960 ‫So I've just positioned that back and if we zoom out, we can take a look at the entirety of our level 139 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:30,220 ‫from our start over here moving platforms, pushers, rotators and sweepers all the way to the little 140 00:09:30,220 --> 00:09:32,080 ‫victory end zone. 141 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:38,020 ‫So I'm pretty happy that that's a fun level and obviously you should give it to other people to playtest 142 00:09:38,020 --> 00:09:42,190 ‫and tweak your ideas and maybe implement a few different level designs. 143 00:09:42,190 --> 00:09:45,910 ‫But for now, I'm quite happy with that and I'll see you in the next lecture.