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YOU'RE breathtaking! You're very welcome 🙏

Thanks! The next one is an important one 😲

Thanks! It's good to be back 😁

Thank you! 🙏

I will do my thing to the best of my ability 😁 And thank you 🙏

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Thank you thank you :D

Thanks!

Nice! The project files are available on my patreon, I don't think I will be making it into an asset... at least not in the foreseeable future.

Thanks! Hopefully it wont be another 3 years before the next DevLog :S :D

Thanks for the sub! I'm completely overwhelmed with my own stuff + full time job, so sadly no time to participate in any other projects. However you can get access to the project files of my character creator prototype on my Patreon and its way less than 150$ :D www.patreon.com/c/drhippo/ Just keep in mind that it's just a prototype/proof of concept, not a fully fleshed out product. So it's something to get you started.

@@DrHippo ok ill take a look man thanks for replying

I know I know... It's been a while 😅😅😅

I have a tutorial that covers some of the basics for this

It's been on my mind for a long time but there is a lot of work that goes into converting something from a prototype/proof of concept to a flexible robust documented product for others to use. I just don't have time right now , but I'm not ruling it out entirely either.

Changing the mouse input thing shouldn't have any effect. This is unfortunately one thing in Unreal that can be a bit of a mind fuck - too often, builds act differently than in PIE. Whenever I find the reason, it makes sense why it acts differently but I still wish they would improve this. Try adding some logs in your script, then after running your build, open the log that is automatically saved in the /saved/logs/ folder. If you don't understand whats in the logs you can also just copy paste it into chatgpt and ask what's wrong with it.

Sadly I have barely touched this since the video was made, other than cleaning up the blueprints and making things more stable. I would love to pick it up again once it becomes more relevant to my game, I just have a bunch of features that are more critical at the moment :( I might also end up not using metahuman mesh entirely, but the system will remain identical, the mesh will just most likely end up being one I will make myself from scratch and then I will mix it with the metahuman materials and bits and pieces like teeth, eyes and maybe even hair. I'm afraid it will lose some kind of identity if it straight up uses metahumans as I am starting to recognize metahumans very easily in other games when i see them :/

Thank you! I'm glad it could ease some of the horrible pain of switching engines :D Any suggestion on other topics that could be handy for a unity dev switching to unreal?

@@DrHippo Unfortunately not (yet). I knew Unity quite well and thought I give other engines a chance and only did a quick Unreal demo. I ended up using Godot a lot recently but still think Unreal is great and I will probably do another 3D demo in it as soon as I find some more time.

You're very welcome! Happy to help :) Are there other topics you would find helpful regarding switching from unity to unreal?

That's hard to argue against. It's possible that I also just explained it poorly or took an overcomplicated approach. But it has also been my general feeling, however as you start to work with anything more than a barebone implementation, it becomes more apparent that the 'verbose' approach has many benefits. Not to mention not having your UI literally hanging out inside your scene... Which has always seemed very janky and messy to me :P Essentially, unreal UI was made for high fidelity complex UI and Unity UI is targeted towards more simple sol dev/mobile games, they both have strengths and its about using the right tool for the job. ps: Thanks :D

@@DrHippo About three months into my Unreal journey, I initially aimed for a balance between Blueprints and C++. However, I’ve ended up using C++ for all logic, reserving Blueprints only for visual editing in widgets. While I recognize the power of Blueprints, especially when collaborating with designers (I have one designer), I still feel the downsides outweigh the benefits. Code is simply cleaner and easier to follow. That said, I do use Blueprints for quick prototyping before transitioning to C++.

Thank you! I made the face shapes less cute and more exaggerated but that's just my personal preference. You could make a head shape to adjust the whole metahuman base so that it's more cute and to your liking. I suppose if it was advanced enough, a character creator could probably make both cute/pretty looks and the not-so-cute, borderline disfigured ones 😂

Thank you! That means a lot - I put a lot of work into them :)

@@DrHippo Please continue the series, bro! Maybe add saving characters and other good stuff! Btw, thanks for these awesome tutorials

Glad you solved it :D

Honestly, much better, thank you for asking! My habits have changed since then after I've become hyper aware of the symptoms 😅 I'm considering making a follow up on this soon and give people a general update since it's been pretty stale with the uploads 😢

You should be able to follow the tutorial and apply most of it to non metahuman characters :) And thank you!

Damn, sorry I missed your message :( But for anyone else wondering, the answer is yes, the center orbit follows when you pan.

@@DrHippo Yes it's working correct! Thank you, please make more things options on it for the future. I have added WASD and QE for up and down and zoom the get slower when you get closer. you could easy put that in.

Thank you! Unfortunately I'm not very consistent with uploads due to full time job, life and stress management getting "in the way", so recognition is gonna be a struggle 😅

Sadly no, not yet. Not without some manual setup.

The highest tier :)

I feel the same! It's definitely not without it's flaws, but it's hard to come back to Unity when I have to use it for work 😭 Haha yep, I should really stop eating those! If only I had the energy to make proper food 😅

Its all in blueprints and it's not marching cubes, that was outside the scope of what I needed out of it :)

Hi @Metagirl001, I'm sorry you felt that my prototype didn't meet your expectations :( Send me a dm on Patreon and I'll give you a refund. However, I would like to point out that I never explicitly claimed that it was using unreal's Landscape system. You can even see my replies to @LakierosJordy and @pand2aren on this video where I state that this is not possible with Unreal's default Landscape. I've also mentioned this on my discord a few times. So this was not something I was trying to keep a secret whatsoever. I'll concede that I should probably have made that more clear at the very least in the Patreon tier description since I can't expect people to read comments here and/or on Discord to figure out what they'll be getting out of it. It was certainly never my intention to deceive!

Just add the mouse clicks yourself in BP by typing in something like "Left Mouse Button"

Hi @kingrenzlovalleykingvfx, I believe you mean the other way around, the legacy input system is deprecated, the Enhanced Input Action is what is replacing it. Also, even though the legacy input stuff is deprecated, it should still work. So the video can still be followed and you can still complete the series and have a working character creator. I tested this exact tutorial project in 5.3 and it still works just fine ( for me at least ). If you want to avoid using a deprecated input system, you can do as @NewLegendPictures suggested and simply add an input listening even directly in the blueprint. Or you can use the Enhanced Input Action system. Here's a great video by Ryan Laley going over the Enhanced Input system : ruclips.net/video/qOh0b_-LMkE/видео.html

I had originally planned to talk about how to clean up and organize all of the blueprints as well as how to load and save the custom characters.

​@@DrHippo Well that's useful info.. the customizing part is not the hard part... To actually use the character and have other players use it and customize it and play with it is the hard part..

Thanks! Character customization data can be gathered in a struct and stored locally using Unreal's SaveGame system. This works well for games like Valheim, focusing on co-op play where cheating is less critical. For online multiplayer with matchmaking, where fair play is vital, using a secure SQL database server to store this data is a better approach. When players then connect to eachother, they each have to download the other player's customization data and re-apply those morph targets.