Thanks for the feedback. EQS is definitely on my to do list. I just need to work through it so that I can explain it the best way possible!

Sorry to hear that! I’ve gone a bit slower in the videos since then.

Thank you for the kind words!

Great idea! I will have to research this first. But I think this would be a great video!

This is a wonderful idea, I just worry that this would require a much longer video to explain well. Do you think a 30-40 minute tutorial would fly? Or, is that too long to sit through?

@@TicToxicStudios I'd watch it👍

@@TicToxicStudios I don't agree with the idea that Unreal Engine tutorials can be too long, especially if they're well done and helpful. (Yours are!) People can always pause, and come back later if they need a break. Alternatively, you could do a tutorial series consisting of several shorter "chapters" to cover the topic well. Word will get out. They will come.

Thank you for the feedback! So Glad it could help you!

Thanks for liking!

Thanks for the feedback! I agree! I had someone asking about it and rather than just explain it to one person, I thought it would be better to document it for the world. Hope it helps someone!

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Thanks for the feedback! In this tutorial, the fracture pattern would always be the same. To have different ones you could create multiple geometry, collections and create multiple broken cube blueprints, and spawn a random one. Getting the small pieces to move with the field is a little tricky. You would have to prevent them from falling asleep. I played around with actually waking them up, but it didn’t always work. Personally, using a third fracture pattern in the style that I did in this tutorial will basically let you shoot them until dust where the pieces are so small it doesn’t matter.

Project settings> unpredictable behavior>dumba** friends >apply behavior tree

@TheAngryRubberDuck Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad my FANTASITCAL artwork was useful. I didn't want to go TOO much in detail, but still give the basic idea so that viewers would be comfortable playing around on their own and know what is happening. Glad you enjoyed this!

Yes, you can! However I found it unreliable (the posable mesh would sometimes twitch) and memory expressive (I didn’t research why). This felt like an easy to understand way that fairly performant. Plus could be optimized better using interfaces to avoid some of the casts. Thank you for the thoughts and feedback!

Thank you for the feedback! I’m glad you found the video helpful. Personally, I appreciate fast and to the point videos also. It’s easy to back up and pause, but it doesn’t hurt to slow down at the important parts as I have started doing in future videos. I have also started displaying completed code longer at the end of each section so pausing and double checking code is easier! If you have any ideas to make my videos better I’d love to hear it!

Long way to go, but I’ll keep you posted!

Thank you for the kind words and feedback! If I ever start slipping, call me out! Plus, ideas about how to improve future videos helps everyone!

If that wall has visibility collision enabled (on by default in the blockall preset) the NPC shouldn’t be able to see through it.

Thank you for the feedback! I agree and have slowed down my videos since then. Still trying not to waste time, but giving it the proper time to learn!

Thanks for the feedback. I noticed the echo after I posted. EXCUSE: the furnace kept turning on and making noise in the mic. Fixing that in post caused other oddities in the audio. Long story shortened: I messed up and I didn't have time to fix it properly. I'll take better care to keep clean narration in future videos. Hope it wasn't TOO distracting!

@@TicToxicStudios Nah chief, all good! Keep these videos coming!

I will absolutely cover this! Unfortunately, it might be just a bit before I can. Stupid real world work always getting in the way! I hope to get to that video in the next few weeks.

Thanks! Hope it helps or inspires great work!

Thanks! I like this idea, it's surprising easy using states in the behavior trees. I will make sure I cover this when I get to states as I WAS just going to do alive, attacking and dead.

Thank you everything.. the information you share with us is greatly valued.@@TicToxicStudios

Thank you for the feedback! So glad that this helped you! Isn’t it amazing how something so small as one setting being wrong could be so maddening?

@@TicToxicStudios Especially since so many examples tend to drop the character directly on the screen. I'm new to Unreal and was unaware of this setting. Looking forward to Your series.

@dajajax I’ve been debating a video idea, Would a very beginner video series about using Unreal Engine be useful to a beginner like you? Like a “Your first day using UE5” where I go into detail about the settings and properties of different parts?

​@@TicToxicStudios In my case, I'm more used to search for videos of mechanics, like this one. What could be a really nice adition, and something not very often seen, is if you could do, after showing a couple a mechanics, a video of how to integrate them in the same proyect. Allow me to divert a bit, lets say for example, you have made a video after this one, of Actors attacking the player after reaching it. That chould totally articulate with this video (and part 2), and for my experience what newcommers are lacking the most, is the understanding of how to implement several blueprints at the same time. I hope my response ends being of use to you.

Excellent feedback! Thank you! You have sparked an idea that I think I can apply to a large group!

I like the ideas here. Most of these are heavy in animation to have smooth transitions. I'm not very strong in the animation department, but I am working on it. Once I get better, this will for sure be a video. I'm thinking that I will follow the "soldier" style NPC and have them patrol, search area, attack/shoot, cover, and reload. Flanking would be a group or squad mechanic, which will require more explanation so would probably need its our video. Thanks for the great feedback!

This is an absolutely brilliant question! In unreal engine 4, this was a built in function. But it was SUPER performance heavy and wasn’t used. They got rid of it in UE5. Honestly, I hadn’t tried to find a solution. I will give it some time to try to find a solution and post a quick video about it when I come up with an answer! Thanks for the question and feedback!

@user-ny2by6xo1w This question haunted me all day! I ended up making a video that I will edit in a day or two about this. Long story short, I couldn't find a way to use nav meshes easily. BUT I did find a lightweight way to do it. I'll post the solution soon!

Thank you for the kind words! I’m hoping this series helps new developers (and veteran ones) more understand how and why everything works over just being shown one more example.

very true I look forward to more of your content you make solid work@@TicToxicStudios

This is a great suggestion! This would pair well with crouching the player and controlling noise levels. Also external stimuli that make noise, like throwing a pebble to distract them or knocking a bottle over. Thank you for the feedback!

@@TicToxicStudios that all would be awesome. I was thinking the whole time how I could do those. I think I could figure out smell for animals (putting together a action survival shooter like farcry) but sound seems a little more advanced.

@Jesters-Jinx Smell could become very challenging since there isn't an AI perception already built in. I imagine a system like Red Dead Redemption 2 would be fun to build, but would be hard. I don't know if I would cover that in the future due to the potential complexity. (It could be easy... never tried it) I'd have to play around when I start on the ai sound part. Another great idea!

Such a great idea! I could show a few ways to spawn ai and maybe have them search for the player or pick up a spawned item and disappear!

Awesome! Glad it helped!

@ricardo22448 Exactly! Having control is usually important, but you could just let it fall if you wanted. I was considering flinging them into space... that would have be fun. Hindsight is 20/20.

Thank you! Is there anything you want to learn about in a future video?

A follow up to AI would be great. There are many ways to implement AI behavior, but it's hard finding the right way. Taking behavior tree tasks as example, there are some blueprint nodes you cannot use inside a task. This leaves the question, which logic you put into tasks and decorators and which logic into for example the character blueprint. For example, where do you start animations or react to outside events. If you have a patrolling NPC and want it stop patrolling if it got hit by the player, how would you do it? Also debugging behavior trees is a pain, the logic in the character blueprint has a debugger with breakpoints while the behavior tree just shows the current state, is there a good way to debug behavior trees ?

@@Lilium___ Great suggestions! I plan to cover these in part 2! Specifically seeing the player to attack them if they’re an enemy, being hit by a player and running away, and returning to the patrol when the player is out of range. Adding the debugging and testing into this video is a terrific idea.

Your welcome! Hope future videos help also!

This is a complex system that I am still learning myself. There are a few issues with something like this: First, most publishers (Epic and Steam) don't like to list games with AI because the replies can be unpredictable and violate terms of service. Also, unless you want your game to be only playable online, Large Language Models are HUGE when run locally and could push your game size into the terabyte+ sizes. The better route would be "Fake AI" with advanced behavior trees that I hope to work into in future videos! Thank you for the feedback to make future videos better!

I have some ideas we can make AI chatbot in python then integrate with UE5 to meta human. do you think can work?@@TicToxicStudios

@@LucasGAKIRE As long as it is properly written for use in UE5, it is possible. Using unreal types is very important in this situation. Plus it's experimental. Also, getting unreal to reach out to APIs over the internet tends to be questionable. docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/scripting-the-unreal-editor-using-python/

Yes that would be nice

Thanks for the suggestions! I am currently planning part 2 and this will most likely make it in there! I agree that the sped up in this was a little much, sorry about that! I was trying to fit a lot in and not have a super long video. I'll either cut back on the number of topics or just have a longer video. Thank you for the feedback to make future videos better!

I agree that this video was a bit too fast for what I claimed as a beginner video. I will slow future videos down and try to explain steps better. Thank you for the feedback to make future videos better!

@@TicToxicStudios thankyou. I understand that you may have showed the general workflow. But it would be valuable if theres a tutorial that viewers can follow along. I also find it helpful if the instructors mouse pointer does not move around to express a point but only when needed to reduce confusion. Other than that, your videos very helpful!

Stop looking for every tutorial to give you a 100% complete solution ... your not gonna learn everything in 1 tutorial. If you want to know more about anything mentioned in a tutorial do the same thing you did to find this video and search for it... smh asking him to change his tutorial style so you dont have to do more searching is selfish and foolish. Good day to you sir.@@supjay3945

I agree, no matter how good a tutorial is, it will never suit everybody’s needs. However, I am striving to make sure viewers understand more than just being shown what to do. And with that in mind, I do agree this tutorial is a little bit fast. Hopefully I am able to find a good balance of not wasting of viewers time, but not going too fast.

Thought you nailed that balance, personally. The part 3:05 "now let's step back and look at how behaviour trees operate", this was pure excellent.

Thanks! There will definitely be more to come!

Agree 100 %

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Then you get NOTHING! I only talk to likers!

Lol.... what??

@@TicToxicStudios 😂😂😂

I agree! I was worried that it would be too much for a KZbin title and get taken down. But as a thumbnail, I'm in!

Looks like this title has hidden the video to most people. I have to change it😢

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