If you want a closer look at the blueprint for my tightrope, I made a video for that! Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmGTqaGVa6akpsk
@LM-cc7qz9 ай бұрын
Hey, make sure you were using world coordinates and not local, because accidentally using local will teleport you near the origin. There is a node that converts from local to world if you need it and make sure you weren't normalizing the vector either. Normalizing would clamp the magnitude to 1 and therefore you'd be restricted to a small vector space near the origin. Looks great man! I thought this was unity at first until I saw the skybox and realized it was UE! Really impressive!
@nerdchomp9 ай бұрын
Yeah it's weird, I was using world coordinates, and most of the time it would behave as expected. But every once in a while it would randomly go rogue and teleport me. It would usually happen if I hit it at a weird angle. Doesn't matter now though. I've abandoned that approach and my new system doesn't have that problem
@Tenchinu11 ай бұрын
just for the fact that you solved the rope problem and put out the ONLY semi-tutorial for UE, this vid is a huge win. Thank u so much! :)
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
I was a little tempted to make a full tutorial, because it was really frustrating when I couldn't find any resources on this, but I'm not confident at all in my tutorial making skills. I don't think I would be a very good teacher lol
@scaithy11 ай бұрын
@@nerdchomp hey, is there any possibility of seeing more of the blueprints? I wanna dig into the vector math and I get that it's looping through spline points and setting their location, but just a bit more context would be really helpful
@dracofells539011 ай бұрын
@@nerdchompI would be extremely interested in hearing about your approach to the spline bouncing. My guess is that you get the point closest to the and use some sort of sine wave to animate the bounce over time on the points nearest to the central point? But I'm just guessing. This looks like really great work so I'm interested to hear a little bit about the approach even if a full tutorial is out of scope. Looking forward to your continued progress!
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
I probably won't make a full tutorial, but there's been enough interest that I might make a video showing a more in depth look at my blueprint. I just need to find the time to make it
@pbentesio11 ай бұрын
A well spent month. It looks wonderful great job!
@shquapp11 ай бұрын
I love the walk-through of something slightly more technical. Definitely helpful for everyone else!
@blockify10 ай бұрын
Same, very helpful for me
@Wapcvm10 ай бұрын
Certified gamedev moment of "What if I added this I just thought of, it'd be easy enough."
@Igndraw8 ай бұрын
I always like to say, the simpler the feature looks, the harder is to create lol
@simoncoupe82948 ай бұрын
3:54 - I can understand the feeling of getting discouraged. You tried something and it didn't work. But remember that is also progress and you didn't settle for less than what you wanted to get around not having a plug and play solution. To me at least, that's a perfect mindset of Intended result -> iteration (including failed attempts) -> refinement -> success. Killing it and love the style of your work so far. Also thanks for sharing.
@SilentTombMusic11 ай бұрын
Big congrats on 1k dude! Excited to see you strive!
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
Thanks, it's been very exciting and motivating for me with the support everyone is showing
@darkaidev11 ай бұрын
For an Idle animation I was thinking of shaking about and a leaf or petals fall off so the character scrunches its eyes and lowers its head like to grow them back like its squeezing them out of himself :D + Congrats on 1k!
@PurnimaRai-ld7ms9 ай бұрын
Your idea is pretty soleaf
@alex.g73179 ай бұрын
Soleaf
@futureboystudio8 ай бұрын
Outstanding troubleshooting and development, resulting in a fantastic and fitting final solution. The functionality and the aesthetics you've landed on are wonderful, and it's making me seriously consider pursuing tightropes as a traversal method in one of my own game projects. Thank you also for taking on board all the requests for a tutorial or walkthrough of your blueprinting, as this is absolutely something I would've kindly requested as well. Keep up the great work, Chris. This has been such an enjoyable journey to follow and I'll be very excited to play the game.
@TheHero05387 ай бұрын
Background music is really chill. Sounds kinda familiar tho...
@nanimo_null9 ай бұрын
6:57 The way the vine swings during the tool/throw /attach animation is really nice!
@nwhajlawn622411 ай бұрын
congratulations for 1k 😊 really excited for this journey!
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
Thanks, I'm excited too!
@ankyloinc.11 ай бұрын
really hope this rope mechanic is used often and in cool ways, cause this is really sick!
@antonse7896311 ай бұрын
sly cooper series did it really well also, by having to press jump and the circle button to interact, so you could also choose to not collide with the ropes and pipes, and fall instead.
@DailyPaily11 ай бұрын
So fun to watch, all the process.
@philldev11 ай бұрын
As someone who has also been struggling with tight ropes (and attachable structures in general), I felt this video on a deep level... Ahah but it turned out great! Awesome implementation, keep up the good work :)
@Greenman489011 ай бұрын
super interesting to see this process, cables can be a big pain
@TheFramPlays9 ай бұрын
I'm just getting my foot in the door into game dev. This is actually really incredible! Dude you just created the first rope tutorial, you are the resource for anyone that wants this! You are amazing Nerd Chomp! New subscriber here!
@nerdchomp9 ай бұрын
Thanks! I just wish I was better at explaining things, because the blueprint is actually pretty complicated. I did successfully help one person set it up in their project though. I was surprised no one had made a video on the topic yet
@TheFramPlays9 ай бұрын
Have you thought about putting it on the UE marketplace or providing how to do it as a service every now and then? Something to be able to make a little extra cash to finance the development of your game? I’m not saying to do that, just curious if you’ve thought about it. Keep being awesome Chris and have a great day!
@nerdchomp9 ай бұрын
@@TheFramPlays Not really. The blueprint is very specific to my own personal project, and honestly it's kind of a mess. It would take a lot of work to get the blueprint marketplace ready. I am happy to help anyone who reaches out and is trying to set it up themselves though. One person reached out on my discord server, and after a little back and forth (or maybe a lot) we got it working in his project. If anyone else wants help setting it up, discord is the best place to reach me. I'll do what I can!
@JaredWyns11 ай бұрын
Excellent technique! I may have to give something like this a go and tweak it for a fun grapple mechanic. Thanks for sharing your thought process on other approaches and why they didn't work out, i'm sure this will save some people a lot of time :)
@EvilDogProductions9 ай бұрын
Very cool exploration. good job experimenting and especially finding your solution! Kudos!
@chuck18011 ай бұрын
wow loved the concepts youve shown, also pretty good polish
@VaunaKiller11 ай бұрын
You sound so calm, I like it. Despite that, I feel the passion for the game just from the way it looks - amazingly alive. I hope you're going to release it and it'll find the audience
@alexline413110 ай бұрын
That was some serious problem-solving. I'm glad you went over the failed attempts too.
@Poniksei10 ай бұрын
very impressive problem solving, love this
@WhyKev10 ай бұрын
It was a lovely devlog! Really enjoyed learning the thoughts behind the rope!
@nerdchomp10 ай бұрын
Your devlogs have been inspiring me for a while now!
@WhyKev10 ай бұрын
@@nerdchomp Really?! That makes me so happy! I've had your character as an inspiration for myself to make more fun NPCs, to play around with "objects" more for characters :)
@nerdchomp10 ай бұрын
Yeah I actually reference your videos in some of my earlier devlogs. You're one of the reasons I started making devlogs in the first place. I'm happy I could inspire you as well. PaperKlay looks so creative and I can't wait to play it!
@TackleProd9 ай бұрын
I also have bumble bee in my game!!! duuuude and nice work, glad you figured it out!
@ConorDrew9 ай бұрын
Hadnt seen any of your dev log things, random algorithm to pop it up now, but it looks really good/ I want to point out I love the fact you mentioned you didn't get stuck down a rabbit hole trying to fix this one issue, as i think for other devs, they can get so focused on one thing, and it in turn hurts them, but walking away, doing other tasks, then one day, a solution or a thread will appear, and before you know it, you have fixed the issue.
@Klash1209 ай бұрын
Wonder if you fall when you despawn the vine? *Despawns at **7:58* GOTY!!!!!!! Really well done mechanic! Excited :)
@DillonBoucherDesigns11 ай бұрын
Amazing work. My favorite devlog to follow!
@ding-hobba10 ай бұрын
that rope shake is so satisfying, high quality polish right there
@alkamino11 ай бұрын
I love this kind of videos, that describe the process to solve the problem you had. New subscriber!! :D
@mithos5611 ай бұрын
This looks fantastic!
@imbenzenker9 ай бұрын
This is so freakin cool. Exactly the kind of challenge that makes me love programming, and has made me so intrigued by game development. Thanks for the inspiration!
@jeniferbaldridge47498 ай бұрын
That looks great! You should feel proud of yourself!
@beedykh22358 ай бұрын
I believe you. I've been struggling lately to implement basic movement system to my UE5 VR game. Now I truly know why development of games take so much time. And now I truly appreciate what the true developers do.
@VaibhavShewale11 ай бұрын
this look ao beautiful!
@andrew____p11 ай бұрын
Wow great stuff!
@eldhand9 ай бұрын
Looks really great mate!
@Vercidium11 ай бұрын
The flower particles when the rope despawns are beautiful. Wishlisted!
@jjtittles6911 ай бұрын
Such an genius solution I can already see my self coming back to this vid if i ever need a cable to interact to the player! Great Vid!
@tenyar25289 ай бұрын
Super fun and interesting thing to see !
@TUKMAK11 ай бұрын
Very nicely done!
@scoobydoobies9 ай бұрын
The petals falling when you remove the rope is amazing
@Ilaijo8 ай бұрын
Awesome videos,keep recording them❤
@MagmaSloth6411 ай бұрын
this is incredibly inspiring, thank you for sharing your development process! I've gleaned many insights from this.
@hi_its_jerry10 ай бұрын
man that's incredibly cool
@whilefree11 ай бұрын
The rope looks gorgeous. I loved it. It gives the player a nice feeling. Nice job.
@ThePoinball10 ай бұрын
Wow, You made an aweome and polish mechanic! Great work!
@R0N-VEEAR11 ай бұрын
Good to see ya again 😀
@speedmilesgood9 ай бұрын
I really love your game mechanics and esthetics ❤ I'm in lack of motivation and inspiration and have seen your game feedback and your 3C with a character who feels enjoyable to control seem to me a great way to start 😊
@GuiGFreitas10 ай бұрын
This was such an interesting video, and seeing that what can look simple needs some clever solutions to really work as intended!
@mykra293910 ай бұрын
Congratz on overcoming this. Amazing work!
@LocdnessMomster9 ай бұрын
This is so beautiful
@ElderSilverFox9 ай бұрын
You should have the flower pedals (that come off when the rope disappears) linger instead of vanish when a new rope is spawned. It is a little popish that separates cheap from quality. Love your art style btw.
@squidz272010 ай бұрын
Great video man! It was great to see this process and the end result looks amazing!!!
@julianodbz9 ай бұрын
Amazing work!
@temperboy54609 ай бұрын
This was such a great video, please keep making more.
@CaptainCling11 ай бұрын
Very creative and elegant solution. I love it.
@BobsiTutorial9 ай бұрын
Sweet video man! And the game looks good.
@kkyeahyeah10 ай бұрын
This is so cute, I would love to play this when it releases.
@ainsleyharriot83249 ай бұрын
This was such an awesome and inspiring video man, good luck with the game 😊
@NNJohn10 ай бұрын
That is smartest way to do ropes i ever saw! Good job!
@merrywisdomx9 ай бұрын
Great work! Thanks for the tut. I don't know much about the overall gameplay, but I think it would be fun if you could bounce off the lily pads and make them springy like the tightrope. You could even have a regular and a bouncy variant. Just a design idea in case you hadn't thought of it!
@climb-up-high11 ай бұрын
looking really cool!
@ignatirabo10 ай бұрын
Honestly it looks amazing. Great job!
@PedroInTheBathroom9 ай бұрын
This is so cool!! Any plans to have repeated jumps on a tightrope make your jumps go consistently higher (up to a ceiling reflective on the rope's length) like mario sunshine or psychonauts? I feel like that could expand the puzzle mechanics with the reattaching of ropes even more, allowing for more secretive exploration of areas. But it's looking great honestly! Good luck with the project!
@sushiman_11 ай бұрын
If i manage to make money with my own games I'll for sure buy this amazing game, keep the great work!
@sabrina00138 ай бұрын
This is sooo cool. Really nicely done!
@lillbrorsan11 ай бұрын
Very cool stuff!
@anapple.433811 ай бұрын
Great video, first time seeing you’re stuff and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
@jhonm634710 ай бұрын
it looks really good
@sundalosketch476911 ай бұрын
A month sounds hella impressive to figure out a tightrope mechanic where you had no tutorial to go off of. At least to a coding/barely coding noob like me, hats off to ya!!
@fosterturtle11 ай бұрын
This was fascinating, great job!
@BbVortexMortinghan8 ай бұрын
Awesome video!
@peeledbanana311Ай бұрын
Great solution!
@nerdchompАй бұрын
Stay tuned, I updated my rope and the video about it comes out this Sunday!
@MikeCore9 ай бұрын
I really do watch anything when i don't want to do my classwork.. great job with the tight rope btw!
@JanMall10 ай бұрын
wow your Channel is growing very fast! Congrats keep it up man☺
@nerdchomp10 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ickorling732811 ай бұрын
I once simulated a bunjee rope, I also just used a string of particles that had elastic bonds. I would think you can make a spline along the path of the particles, sorta like the plexus plugin in AE (it makes dots thag detect nearby dots and may add a line between the dots dynamically. Number of connections to 1 dot can be set to 2, making a chain). A similar technique may be possible and even duplicated multiple times as radially offset splines, and have them join faces to make a rope set up for collisions at any scale and realism. The outcome should be a very very customizable and realistic rope. Theoreticallt point to point distance can be fixed or elastic, and the rope can curve and get dragged, it can have sag, heck even act as a slingshot! I tested all these things in the after effects 'newton' plug-in atleast. Just a thought, I havent ever used UE5. Good luck!
@23edsa11 ай бұрын
Fantastic job with these
@boxingspace298410 ай бұрын
"Incredible skills on display here! The amount of work put into this is mind-blowing. Thanks for sharing your expertise - truly inspiring content!"
@dareczek29749 ай бұрын
You could add a death animation to this game, e.g. if you fall from too high a height, the flowerpot breaks and the earth spills out xD
@Tbjbu211 ай бұрын
wow awesome, great work on this, and great looking game! wishlisted
@musemeghini11 ай бұрын
Dude this is awesome, keep it up!
@myk3l967511 ай бұрын
Aww, Herb and Jerry are so cute!
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
😂
@myk3l967511 ай бұрын
@@nerdchomp the names are going to catch on!
@DrDandD11 ай бұрын
I think this might be the same aproach ponypants used for the ropes for the wrestling ring in his game
@davidCcode10 ай бұрын
Nicely done! By the way, you also had a pretty neat tightrope system in "Hat in Time", and it was in Unreal 3. If it was do-able then, it still should be.
@ripchan141310 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@Nikolajnen9 ай бұрын
0:50 "And in my head, I thought this would be pretty simple" ain't that the truth, It's always easy on paper 😅
@Kitsune-es3lc9 ай бұрын
aesthetics are awesome.
@DrKillerLetsPlay9 ай бұрын
^_^ ..wishlisted, cant wait to play it
@HipBlooD8 ай бұрын
Look‘s great!
@BrutalMagik11 ай бұрын
The way you designed the rope was great! Have you thought about adding it to the Epic Market place?
@nerdchomp11 ай бұрын
Never really crossed my mind. It would require a lot of tweaking and cleaning up to make it marketplace ready. Not really sure if I'm up to that effort right now, but we'll see. Maybe sometime in the future
@sundalosketch476911 ай бұрын
It may make for a decent mini bonus revenue if you decide to place a price for your handmade efforts@@nerdchomp
@JadonBarnes10 ай бұрын
This game will be a big success, I can just tell. So get ready!
@prisnu285411 ай бұрын
This is awesome!!
@germojo11 ай бұрын
that game is sweet :D
@ofeklivny9 ай бұрын
Amazing
@thesofshavua513211 ай бұрын
The game looks great!
@zachhoffman855711 ай бұрын
you did a good job :)
@j-bone947211 ай бұрын
Genius
@FabriXor8710 ай бұрын
Nice work!! But be careful with performance if you are planning on having a lot of them in one level! Splines and spline mesh components can get quite expenisve very quickly