WEBVTT 00:06.790 --> 00:07.900 Welcome back. 00:07.930 --> 00:10.840 Now we have some really important sections coming up. 00:10.840 --> 00:16.480 And just before wrapping up this section, I want to show you a couple things. 00:16.480 --> 00:24.850 When it comes to using assets in general when building levels and more specifically, our setup here. 00:24.880 --> 00:32.320 Now, you may be using different assets, but one of the things I noticed on the edges of my block here, 00:32.320 --> 00:33.640 I have some room. 00:33.640 --> 00:40.240 There's about perhaps half a meter that aura could totally squeeze through. 00:40.760 --> 00:41.040 Right. 00:41.050 --> 00:44.320 So Aura can fit through this and make it to the other side. 00:44.320 --> 00:52.120 Now, this is kind of a small issue, but depending on how you go about it, you could create a lot 00:52.120 --> 00:53.710 of extra work for yourself. 00:53.710 --> 01:03.370 So I wanted to just sort of visit this scenario a little bit and show you perhaps something that could 01:03.370 --> 01:04.650 save you some time. 01:04.660 --> 01:11.090 Now, one of the easiest ways to close that gap would be to perhaps take some geometry and move it over. 01:11.210 --> 01:14.080 I'm going to undo that because I don't have snapping on. 01:14.090 --> 01:20.480 I'm going to set snapping increments to 100 and snap this over by 100 units, and that looks pretty 01:20.480 --> 01:21.050 good. 01:21.080 --> 01:28.280 Now, that means I'm going to probably want to snap this one over, and that means there's a gap here. 01:28.310 --> 01:33.050 Now, you could just snap all of them over like so. 01:33.050 --> 01:41.180 But then if we go over here to the right side, there's still this issue where we have a gap and there's 01:41.180 --> 01:45.680 kind of exactly one square worth right there. 01:45.860 --> 01:50.170 Now, you might think, well, I have single tiles, right? 01:50.180 --> 01:54.230 Or I even have two by ones, two by twos. 01:54.260 --> 01:59.690 If I go into the dungeon assets folder, I've got my little one by one. 01:59.690 --> 02:00.200 Right. 02:00.200 --> 02:07.460 And sure, you could rotate this by 90 degrees again, don't have snapping on for rotation. 02:07.460 --> 02:10.220 So I'm going to go ahead and rotate by 90 here. 02:11.140 --> 02:16.060 And bring it up and over and perhaps duplicate it. 02:16.090 --> 02:17.110 You get the picture. 02:17.110 --> 02:21.340 You could, you know, create something that is that size. 02:21.820 --> 02:30.100 Now, I kind of want to show you a little bit of a secret in a sense about these blocks and how I made 02:30.100 --> 02:30.550 them. 02:30.580 --> 02:37.570 You see, I already had some flat tiles like the two by threes and things like that that I've created, 02:37.570 --> 02:40.480 and I use those to create these blocks. 02:41.130 --> 02:42.420 Let me show you what I mean. 02:42.570 --> 02:48.690 I'm going to go ahead and drag in a three by three, so. 02:49.320 --> 02:52.400 Let's use the three by three A here. 02:52.410 --> 02:59.670 So for one, I'm going to raise it by 90 degrees and I'll duplicate it a few times. 02:59.670 --> 03:07.800 So I'm just going to hold alt and rotate it down by 90 and bring it over so that it's like this. 03:07.800 --> 03:10.470 So we have one side on the bottom there. 03:10.500 --> 03:17.790 You can't really see it because it's too dark, but it's there and I can take this piece here and rotate 03:17.790 --> 03:22.830 it by 90 degrees and bring it over here. 03:23.250 --> 03:34.440 I can rotate it the other way like this and bring this other piece over to here and then duplicate and 03:34.440 --> 03:38.130 rotate by 90 this way and bring it up. 03:39.700 --> 03:40.720 Like that. 03:41.880 --> 03:45.630 Actually, I think I want this pointed the other way. 03:47.300 --> 03:49.400 So without duplicating. 03:49.760 --> 03:51.410 Rotating it that way. 03:52.210 --> 03:53.200 You get the point. 03:53.200 --> 03:56.710 So I made basically this block. 03:56.710 --> 04:03.250 Right now it's open on this side because I want an additional row. 04:03.370 --> 04:10.630 So what I can do is see if I have a one by three and it looks like I don't. 04:10.660 --> 04:16.510 So I'm just going to take a one by two and you can make a one by three using the method I'm about to 04:16.510 --> 04:19.480 show you, but I'm going to take this one by two. 04:20.690 --> 04:22.640 Rotate it by 90 here. 04:23.210 --> 04:27.620 And place it right up against this one. 04:28.870 --> 04:32.080 And I'm going to take a one by one. 04:33.510 --> 04:36.120 Here's one and stick it right there. 04:36.480 --> 04:37.260 Okay. 04:37.260 --> 04:46.350 And I'm also going to take these duplicate as I rotate down by 90 and pull them out. 04:47.060 --> 04:48.440 Like this. 04:49.720 --> 04:52.030 And I'm going to duplicate this one. 04:53.070 --> 04:54.780 And do the same thing. 04:56.590 --> 05:00.280 Bringing it up to this side and down. 05:00.280 --> 05:02.810 And I'll take one of these one by ones. 05:02.830 --> 05:04.060 I'll take this one. 05:04.820 --> 05:05.960 Duplicate and rotate. 05:05.990 --> 05:06.300 90. 05:06.320 --> 05:07.130 This way. 05:08.560 --> 05:09.970 And bring it up. 05:11.130 --> 05:19.200 And place it there, right there in place and just fill this in on the other side as well. 05:21.100 --> 05:23.170 So I'm just going to duplicate these. 05:25.140 --> 05:26.340 Bring them over. 05:28.640 --> 05:30.290 And bring them over here. 05:32.600 --> 05:35.390 And then I think I could put a two by three. 05:35.390 --> 05:36.890 I believe I have those. 05:39.120 --> 05:40.290 Three by two. 05:41.580 --> 05:43.620 Accidentally duplicated it twice. 05:44.680 --> 05:46.810 So I'm going to fill this part in here. 05:49.140 --> 05:50.910 With this three by two. 05:52.670 --> 05:53.900 There we go. 05:54.110 --> 05:55.520 That looks good. 05:55.610 --> 05:59.270 The only thing I have to be careful of is the bottom here. 05:59.270 --> 06:00.380 It's missing a row. 06:00.380 --> 06:02.270 So I'm going to take this row here. 06:03.780 --> 06:05.580 Duplicate like this. 06:06.850 --> 06:10.440 By 90, of course, bring it down and over. 06:10.450 --> 06:14.560 So I have this three by three by four is what it is. 06:14.710 --> 06:18.960 Now I can combine this into its own static mesh asset. 06:18.970 --> 06:26.650 So to do that, I'm going to take all the pieces that make up this large block. 06:27.890 --> 06:31.170 And make sure I have them all selected all at once. 06:31.190 --> 06:33.770 It's important not to miss any of them. 06:35.210 --> 06:36.800 So selecting these. 06:38.560 --> 06:41.590 Make sure I get that side and of course, the top. 06:42.220 --> 06:48.610 Now that I have them all, what I can do is I can go into modeling mode. 06:48.640 --> 06:51.280 Shift five is the hotkey. 06:51.280 --> 06:57.100 And if I go into modeling mode, I can combine these into one mesh asset. 06:57.370 --> 07:06.430 So under create, if I click on Merge and here in the modeling tab, it says write to new object name 07:06.430 --> 07:12.310 combined output type from input handle inputs, it says delete inputs. 07:12.310 --> 07:21.070 So it's going to delete these that I have selected and I'm going to call this SM tile three by three 07:21.070 --> 07:24.220 by four and click Accept. 07:24.700 --> 07:32.290 Now I'm going to come back out into selection mode and notice this is now called SM tile three by three 07:32.290 --> 07:38.510 by four, and it's one big piece and if I right click on it and browse to the asset, well it put it 07:38.510 --> 07:41.960 in this maps generated Druid folder by default. 07:41.960 --> 07:47.240 But I'm going to put this back in my dungeon folder here, so I'm going to drag it to the dungeon folder, 07:47.240 --> 07:53.430 move here and then take this new generated Druid folder and delete it. 07:53.450 --> 08:01.130 I tend to delete the inner folder first and then delete the outer folder. 08:01.160 --> 08:02.780 That's just how I do it. 08:02.780 --> 08:08.570 And now I have a bigger piece, so that's kind of nice, right? 08:08.570 --> 08:14.540 So I can actually replace this one, except this was a fade actor, so I can go ahead and make a fade 08:14.540 --> 08:15.680 actor out of this. 08:15.710 --> 08:22.670 If I edit the static mesh asset, I'm actually going to browse to it first because when it was named, 08:22.700 --> 08:26.390 it got a whole bunch of extra characters at the end. 08:26.390 --> 08:33.830 So I'm going to change that and open this and notice that it does have a number of materials. 08:33.830 --> 08:35.690 It's got four. 08:35.690 --> 08:43.820 So two of these I already have fade actor materials for tile set one and two, but it's also using a 08:43.820 --> 08:44.480 couple others. 08:44.480 --> 08:47.510 So I need to make fade materials for those. 08:47.510 --> 08:54.260 So what I'd like to do is just make a fade actor for a three by three by four and I can time lapse that 08:54.260 --> 09:00.800 and by the end of it I can replace this one here by one that's a little bit wider. 09:00.800 --> 09:07.220 And so I thought I'd show you this workflow by creating new meshes in modeling mode, because this can 09:07.220 --> 09:13.970 be really nice and you can avoid having to create an actor with multiple meshes and go through all that 09:13.970 --> 09:14.570 mess. 09:14.570 --> 09:20.810 And of course, one of the last things to do in the static mesh editor is we can show simple collision 09:20.810 --> 09:26.420 and notice that the collision looks like the collision from the original mesh. 09:26.420 --> 09:33.050 So what I'm going to do is remove collision and just add box simplified collision so it has an appropriate 09:33.050 --> 09:35.060 collision volume and we'll save that. 09:35.060 --> 09:39.860 So I'm going to time lapse the rest of the video where I make a fade actor, but I'll still show you 09:39.860 --> 09:42.590 all the steps that I take and then we'll wrap up. 09:42.590 --> 09:44.450 So time lapsing here. 10:12.540 --> 10:15.270 Okay, so it looks like I've got my fade actor. 10:15.270 --> 10:22.920 I fill in its material instances and I have a three by three by four, so I can go ahead and just delete 10:22.920 --> 10:26.100 this mesh and bring in my fade actor here. 10:26.310 --> 10:30.360 Just remove that one and bring in my new one. 10:31.580 --> 10:35.060 Always using brows to open up folders quickly. 10:35.060 --> 10:43.550 So we'll get that in there and just rotate it by 90 and place it in place. 10:47.650 --> 10:52.600 Now it looks like my origin might not be perfect. 10:53.240 --> 10:54.170 That's fine. 10:54.170 --> 11:00.470 I can go ahead and just lower my snapping increment and get it right up against where it needs to be. 11:06.530 --> 11:13.520 And I might have actually needed a two by four by three, but that's fine. 11:13.520 --> 11:17.780 I'm just going to bring it down into the ground and cheat a little bit there. 11:22.780 --> 11:25.000 And now we have a blocked path. 11:26.300 --> 11:31.380 So the last thing to do is to test out how this works. 11:31.400 --> 11:34.100 First of all, did we block the path properly? 11:34.130 --> 11:35.080 We did. 11:35.090 --> 11:38.480 And I guess we should check on this side too. 11:38.510 --> 11:40.190 Did we block the path here? 11:40.190 --> 11:41.920 And we did. 11:41.930 --> 11:42.620 Okay. 11:42.620 --> 11:45.050 And then does the fade actor work? 11:45.140 --> 11:49.460 So let's go around to the other side, see if it fades out. 11:49.610 --> 11:50.810 And it does. 11:53.060 --> 11:53.510 Okay. 11:53.510 --> 12:01.070 So I thought I'd show that workflow and obviously tweak that workflow as you need, right as you see 12:01.100 --> 12:01.840 fit. 12:01.850 --> 12:06.380 Just keep in mind that that modeling mode is there. 12:06.380 --> 12:13.520 If you'd like to make more complex types of geometry, you know, you could make one where it looks 12:13.520 --> 12:16.820 like these three blocks here are missing, for example. 12:16.820 --> 12:18.230 So it's really up to you. 12:18.230 --> 12:20.000 But I thought I'd show that. 12:20.670 --> 12:26.640 And of course, one of the last things to do is go into our fade actor and set its block visibility 12:26.640 --> 12:27.450 to true. 12:27.450 --> 12:30.940 And that way we can auto run onto that block. 12:30.960 --> 12:34.680 So click and release short press. 12:36.360 --> 12:39.810 And that's not going to work because we need to check that mesh. 12:39.960 --> 12:42.390 And let's see what the mesh has. 12:43.710 --> 12:45.410 For Collision Presets. 12:45.420 --> 12:48.840 We'll go ahead and make sure it's blocking visibility there as well. 12:51.410 --> 12:53.030 And a short press works. 12:54.020 --> 12:54.860 Excellent. 12:55.460 --> 12:56.150 All right. 12:56.150 --> 12:58.490 So just thought I'd show you that. 12:58.490 --> 12:59.480 Pretty cool. 12:59.480 --> 13:01.190 And I'll see you in the next section.