How I Created An AI Companion For My Indie Game

[@REE-Animation]

Really hard video to make without confusing myself 😀 What do you think guys? Is Actor Components the way to go?

[@Pixels4Games]

The pig companion is awesome. I love it so much. It makes my want to implement a companion into our games also. Keep going man, you are doing great. :) - Dan

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks mate. Appreciate it 🙂

[@officialgrimwaregamesllc]

Hey, so some the stuff you're having trouble with, blueprint communication-wise...I don't know if you've seen but there's a video from Epic on the specific topic of Blueprint Communication in UE4...It was pretty helpful for me, called blueprint communication live training - pink hair dude Zack Parrish. There's also videos for Blueprint Best Practices out there that are also useful

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks 🙂👍

[@tehaudam4129]

Components are some of the best blueprints to use. The flexibility is astounding.

[@REE-Animation]

So they say 🙂 I will definitely try and use them more, where it makes sense

[@CosmicComputer]

I loved the video thanks!

[@REE-Animation]

Great 🙂

[@macalbert05]

I love your pig, Man

[@REE-Animation]

😁

[@davestomper3428]

Really liking the game and the visuals so far everything looks great and I made it through the entire video you were not rambling man your trying to explain a difficult concept such as State machines and they are not super easy so well done man

[@REE-Animation]

Hehe, thanks man! Appreciate the kind words ❤️

[@FredcoTVfrenchgaming]

This is so friggin incredible OMG !

[@REE-Animation]

@@FredcoTVfrenchgaming 😁🙏

[@derikdotnet]

Woooo! Love these videos man keep it up!

[@REE-Animation]

🙂

[@REE-Animation]

This one is a little hardcore to get through

[@derikdotnet]

​@@REE-AnimationI'm ready! I currently use Gamemaker and have been for years, your projects are the first to get me interested in Unreal. Can't wait to see the finished game!

[@springcar]

Magical Success and fire your game videos commenting ! . awesome that you got created so far your game code ! i bet you make certain game creator friends with your videos. About actor component, i liked some possibilities that made me quess they are not secretly limited like my quesses are about character component. but its a quess. Anyway you worked your code so far and let me see, it is sooo fun with your commenting your creation. Many game creators should be made tipped to see your awesome Devlogs. i dig companion pig , and i find it fun to roll with . Gaming friend. Warm Greetings from Finland. Hey we all need some creative hobby and purposes! Keep going creating !

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks for the many kind words man. I really appreciate it 🙂❤️

[@roelthijssen2147]

Oink looks fantastic! Haha! I love the floating animation. Also the AI system looks very intuitive. The term behaivior tree gives cramps on spots I didn’t know I could get em Will you do an indepth tutorial on the AI system? Keep it up 💪🏻

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks 🙂 Perhaps I might.. I have a lot on the table right now, so 🤷

[@springcar]

I wanted tell that i subbed and i keep coming back to see your videos. I watched this creative well made logic of friendly-AI, four times now.i work create game too and Some day i get money more to support your creationing videos. You are creative fuel to me. Keep creative

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks a lot for the kind words. It warms my heart to hear that my videos can inspire 🙂 And thanks for the sub 🙂🙏❤️

[@maxicez7]

I don't want pig to die :C maybe do it like in torchlight 2, when compaion hp drop to 1 he just runs in fear or can just run away and despawn and after fight he backs with low hp?

[@REE-Animation]

It’s a magical pig.. I can make him teleport away instead of dying 😉

[@Anerisian]

Excellent work there. You have a talent to make the combat feel impactful already. Part of me thinks “man, this guy should ditch visual scripting and start coding” but I hear this is difficult in Unreal. I once shied away from this jump (albeit in Unity), but now I regret a little that I didn’t start coding earlier. The concepts and setup you learn in visual scripting (i.e. blueprints) quite easily translate. I find the synth music a bit odd given the apparent theme of the game, which seems more like warhammer-like fantasy (skaven etc). Also, are you related to DarkMatter2525 or Schwarzenegger? ;)

[@REE-Animation]

Thanks.. 🙂 I have zero interest in coding.. Blueprinting is hard enough as it is. Yes, schwarzenegger is my homie ✊ He just don’t know it 😉

[@biblecmpvictim]

How did you start?

[@REE-Animation]

I started by following youtube video.. The next video I make will I will talk about things like that actually.. So stay tuned 🙂

[@biblecmpvictim]

Do you have any recommendations

[@REE-Animation]

@@biblecmpvictim just follow tutorials on KZbin, that was what I did… How to make a coin pickup, how to open a door with a key and so on.

[@deliciousagony]

My mind is blown by the component name! For more serious stuff. I was watching this video on a big screen. It's the first time I noticed that all your characters are overlapping when they are at the same location. Once seen I keep noticing it. Do you already have an idea how to fix that?

[@REE-Animation]

It will stay that way I think. Perhaps I can move the pig a little further in the back if it gets close to the player character. I tried fixing it with the enemies many years ago, made the characters collide, and made so you could push them.. But that created SO many other problems, that I just ignored the clipping problem instead

[@deliciousagony]

Because the pig is slow and not attacking it is more noticable I think. Other games should have this problem too

[@springcar]

oh, great that you tell it :) sounds fun thinking. keep inventing @@REE-Animation

[@RDD87z]

i still need to get my hands on ai. but this seems a pretty easy to approach. btw, do you make the animations in blender? or also in cascadeur? in this case where your character has his axe rolling from ur hand during idle i guess you create a specific bone in the character and you animate it to spin?

[@REE-Animation]

Blender only

[@REE-Animation]

Yes, each hand has a specific bone I attach weapons and such to

[@badashphilosophy9533]

haha, i like yourr sense of humour

[@REE-Animation]

😁🙏

[@Lolpop751]

Dont sleep on behavior trees, they are supppper useful to implement sequence of tasks AI need to complete and action during their 'thinking'... Do you know what a 'Behavior Task' is? They are modular bits of code you can put inside a tree to tell the AI todo stuff when that task is triggered.

[@REE-Animation]

I tried using it once, but it became too confusing, so I dropped it on the floor.. It’s beyond my level for now