The Butterfly Effect

Devlog

• Puddle Particle Bug Fix
  August 25, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Particle System

  Author: Charley Weaver Last week, we encountered a minor bug regarding the particles coming off the wings while within our puddle obstacle. For some players, it would populate as expected, but for oth... Continue reading

  
• How can I use Gamepad in the UI Widgets in Unreal Engine 5?
  August 23, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine 5, #Gamepad, #Use Gamepad, #Controllers

  AUTHOR: Carlos Castro Unreal Engine 5.1 For this week I wanted to use the gamepad in the different widgets we had in our game. I wanted to be able to use sliders, to use the buttons, and to be able to... Continue reading

  
• Saving Sound Settings Between Playthroughs
  August 19, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Save, #Audio, #Unreal, #Blueprint

  Author: Charley Weaver Throughout these past two weeks, I found myself having to go into the pause menu at the beginning of each playthrough to set my sound settings to where I wanted them. While the... Continue reading

  
• Skip NPC Cinematic with Interactive Key
  August 18, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine, #Cinematic, #Bug, #UE5, #Tips, #C++

  Author: Carlos Castro For today’s blog, I am going to explain how to skip a cinematic that you activated with the same key. This is because in our game The Butterfly Effect inside level 1 the player... Continue reading

  
• Movement Update
  August 12, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Movement, #Input Action System

  Author: Charley Weaver The way your character moves can make a significant difference in user experience. For the past three months, we have had a movement system where the player would have to stop h... Continue reading

  
• Solve Fly faster counter to use multiple Fly Faster power Ups inside the level
  August 12, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#BUG, #C++, #Code, #Unreal Engine, #Solve

  We encountered a bug last week related to the 'fly faster' power-up. If a player used more than one 'fly faster' power-up, the first one would function correctly, but the second one would not. This is... Continue reading

  
• Save System Continuation
  August 05, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Save

  Author: Charley Weaver Many changes have been made since the previous save system update. Previously, the save system was set up only to change the text above the "start game" to "continue game" along... Continue reading

  
• How I can hide the HUD elements during the cinematics?
  August 05, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine, #Bug, #HUD, #Widgets

  This is a very common question and most of the time when you are playing a cinematic maybe you want to hide all the HUD items or maybe you want to show some of the HUD items. For example, in our game,... Continue reading

  
• Save System
  July 21, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Save System

  AUTHOR: Charley Weaver This week brought a new set of challenges to elevate the player's experience. As we transitioned from having 1 level to 2, it became evident that the "start game" UI element in... Continue reading

  
• Fix Fly Faster crash
  July 20, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#UE5, #c++, #Unreal Engine, #Solution Bug

  For the second level of our game, we included some waps that are at the start of the level. Those wasps were able to shoot me and some of their “bullets” were able to touch the trigger of the fly... Continue reading

  
• Final FIX to incorporate a Cinematic in Unreal Engine Using C++ and Blueprints
  July 15, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine, #Bug, #Cinematic, #level sequence, #C++

  The last week I was working on getting the cinematic done in C++, I did a lot of testing trying to understand why the game sometimes crashes. When I did some research, I got the idea to create testing... Continue reading

  
• Scrolling Animation for Credits
  July 15, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Credits, #Animation

  Author: Charley Weaver This week, I tackled the credits screen. While I could, theoretically, make a static screen with all information necessary to credit jam-packed on a screen in a static fashion,... Continue reading

  
• How the cinematics or Level sequence player work in Unreal Engine 5.1
  July 08, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine, #game, #Bugs, #Solutions

  This week I was having an issue trying to play a cinematic at the end of the level one or when the player interacts with an object on the level. I did research on the Unreal engine Documentation, I al... Continue reading

  
• Using Timers to Toggle Particle Color
  July 04, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere##Unreal, ##Particles, ##Color, ##Timer

  AUTHOR: Charley Weaver One of the challenges I faced this week was the alternating of particle color in the camouflage pickup in C++. Why do this in the first place? We wanted a VFX and/or SFX associa... Continue reading

  
• How I can use Niagara Particle System in C++
  July 01, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Niagara Paricle, #Unreal Engine, #Solution

  How I can use Niagara Particle System in C++ I am converting the fly faster blueprint of our game into C++ and most of the logic of this power-up is very easy, but I was having a lot of issues trying... Continue reading

  
• Option/Pause Menu Sliders Persistence
  June 23, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Options, #Sliders

  Author: Charley Weaver Throughout this short week, we focused on fixing slight bugs in our Alpha Build. This included bugs with collisions and with the music options sliders below. Like the issue with... Continue reading

  
• Issue with Tree Collision on the game
  June 22, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine, #Collision, #Solve bug

  There was an issue with the colliders on the trees inside level 1. If you can take a close look at the screenshot you are going to be able to identify that the player was able to pass inside the tree... Continue reading

  
• Animation Issue with Multiple Enemies
  June 17, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere

  Author: Charley Weaver My main goal was to create a spider enemy this week that patrolled, attacked, and alerted other spiders in the area to the player. While the patrolling and attacking were pretty... Continue reading

  
• Spring arm error collision on player in Unreal Engine 5
  June 17, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal Engine 5, #Bug, #Solution to bugs

  In the game we were able to identify a bug related to the camera, if you take a closer look at the video, we are able to identify that the camera is able to be inside another object and be able to sho... Continue reading
• Resolution settings not working in packaged project
  June 10, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Resolution, #Unreal, #Settings

  Author: Charley Weaver After packaging the project for our last sprint, I noticed that the resolution settings that did work in the Unreal editor standalone game did not work in the packaged project... Continue reading

  
• Identifying if the player is using a controller Issue Updating controlls UI In real Time
  June 10, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Solution to bug, #Input mapping Context, #Unreal Engine 5

  Description of the issue: The issue that I was having is that I wanted to update in real-time if the player is using an XBOX controller or if is using a keyboard and mouse. On the other hand, when the... Continue reading

  
• Key Mapping Persistence between Levels
  June 03, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere

  Author: Charley Weaver One of the biggest issues I had throughout this week was attempting to set and save key mapping options between levels. We will have three different preset options for different... Continue reading

  
• Plant Enemies and Wasp Enemies were making damage for 1 time now fixed
  June 03, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Bug Solution

  Author: Carlos Castro On the first prototype that we submitted the last month, we received very good feedback and also the player was able to identify two main bugs. The bug was the same, but it was i... Continue reading
• Custom Animation for Wasp in Unreal Engine 5.1
  May 27, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere

  Author: Carlos Castro Date: 26-05-2023 We have an FBX character for the wasp with a very simple skeletal mesh but without animations. The issue is that we wanted a simple animation for the Wasp but si... Continue reading

  
• Having to click to regain controls after returning from a menu
  May 27, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Unreal, #Controls

  This week provided quite a few challenges with one being an issue with entering a pause or options menu and returning to the game. As a player, I would expect to be able to automatically control the c... Continue reading

  
• Issues with Material Change for Player
  May 20, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Materials, #Blueprints, #Unreal

  Author: Charley Weaver There were two issues related to materials of the player that I was able to identify and solve throughout the course of this week's sprint. First, the butterfly character's mate... Continue reading

  
• Fly Limit to control how much the timer the butterfly can fly
  May 19, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere#Physics, #Bug

  Author: Carlos Castro In the game we wanted the butterfly just to be able to fly for a specific amount of time, the issue that we were having is to identify how we can make the butterfly fall until th... Continue reading

  
• Getting Started
  May 13, 2023 by teaminsertnamehere

  The Butterfly Effect will immerse you in the world of the Monarch butterflies. These brave but fragile creatures require stealth and cunning to survive a world of many natural predators. As a player,... Continue reading