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@@lesliebaker2494 we’re planning to get it out much sooner than that but then again it’s game development we’re talking about 😅

No, just multiplayer has been taking longer than expected, but getting close to making another update video

Thanks, yes we are. Planning to have a video out soon showing basic multiplayer support.

@@haywireinteractive nice are we going to be able to play it once completed

@@shekir2008 yes that’s the plan

@@haywireinteractive How has the experience of using Mass AI in unreal has been for it. Did that go smoothly or cause many issues?

@@anubhaBanerjee Overall it's going well, but it is a lot more work than traditional UE development as a lot of systems in UE are designed for actors and we're having to create new versions of those systems for Mass in some cases. One example is Crowd Detour, UE's system for NavMesh movement with avoidance of other crowd members.

When using UE's Mass entity system (which is how I scale to thousands of soldiers), the entities that are represented by actors can use IK animations, the rest which are further from the player are represented as instanced static meshes with vertex animations where IK isn't possible AFAIK. Unique AI decisions are possible. You can use UE's State Tree with Mass to make it a bit easier to structure AI behaviors. Epic's City Sample project is a good example of using State Tree with Mass.

Migrating from City Sample causes all sorts of issues. Instead I setup the project as a UE plugin that I can insert into the City Sample UE project. I have some old instructions for a very old build of the game here which can give you an idea: github.com/HaywireInteractive/OnAllFronts-Public#adding-plugin-to-existing-project.

Thanks man, ill try that.

@@mcdonalds8701 I actually figured out a way to migrate the small city from City Sample: forums.unrealengine.com/t/migrating-world-partition-level-with-hlods-across-projects/1302340?u=leroyyyy231. Large city still crashes UE.

I haven't gotten to that yet, but if you want to ask questions about it, there are some people that have used it in discord.gg/unreal-slackers under the Mass channel.

@@haywireinteractive I’m in there thanks. I’m currently using the mind map that either you posted or someone apart of your team. It’s very helpful for mapping out which classes to copy and extend

lol, this was on a i7-9700K 3.6GHz, GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 16GB RAM, and still lots of room for more optimization. The reason we can scale so much higher than traditional UE games is thanks to the UE5's new Mass Entity system.

This was a series of two videos “before” and “after”. Basically did LODs for the “after” and this video is the “before”.

@@haywireinteractive Ah didn't see that. Do LODs just work for the AnimToTexure Plugin? (If you are using that)

@@kettenotter Yes we’re using AnimToTexture. In the anim to texture data asset you specify which LOD to use from the skeletal mesh and static mesh. I haven’t been able to get those LODs to work in a single static mesh, I’ve had to create a separate static mesh for each LOD, then in Mass visualization trait you can use the different static meshes for different Mass LODs.

A few months working on it part-time. Though I already have a background doing C++ development.

Thanks. I’ve only been working with Unreal for 1 year but most of this is done in C++ which I have done for about 5 years.

@@haywireinteractive do you use HISM?

@@Mr.Sunshine2023 These are ISMs, not HISMs. It's the same setup as Epic's City Sample project. You can configure different ISMs for each Mass LOD if desired.

If your "what" is referring to Robert's comment, we're in a weekly meeting on Thursdays

Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have time to create tutorials at the moment but my GitHub project has examples of how to do everything you see in the video. If you need code pointers you can add me on Discord (in the description). Some other good resources are ua-cam.com/video/f9q8A-9DvPo/v-deo.html and looking through the City Sample code for how they implemented crowds and traffic in the Mass Entity system.

​@@haywireinteractivetutorial please

Thanks. If you're interested in helping out see the video description.