Would be good if you could do an INI tutorial (that's a bit more in depth and more user friendly then what's around).

Originally posted by ShaZZa:

Would be good if you could do an INI tutorial (that's a bit more in depth and more user friendly then what's around).

It's on my list of things to cover :)
I need to cover the herd of elephants sitting in the room though and get some of the big topics out of the way, like replication, before I can dive into the more granular topics like config options

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It was be nice to do a video on getting the dev kit to run better. It just crashes for me.

Originally posted by DestroyerTOP:

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Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

It was be nice to do a video on getting the dev kit to run better. It just crashes for me.

The first video goes over setting up the devkit and how to make it run efficiently.

I have to ask about the crashing though, people frequently use the word synonymously with freezing. is the devkit actually producing a big error message prompt and shutting down, or is it just locking up?
If it's locking up/freezing, watch video #1, I explain what it is that I believe you are seeing (It's loading a TON of assets into memory, it's just what UE4 does).

I don't get an error message and it shutdowns.

Originally posted by KitsuneShiro:

I don't get an error message and it shutdowns.

Understood, if you are interested in solving it could you open a new thread here:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/modding/ark-survival-evolved

And I will try to help suss out the cause. Troubleshooting devkit problems is a bit off-topic for this thread.

Now with making a mod. I was thinking of getting into making armor skins. Is this possible with the dev kit?

you would wear whatever armor you wish, but the skin would be for a set(like wearing fur armor for cold, but making it look like fur lined plate). Also looking to make a skin that would just add to current armor types, kinda like putting decals over armor you already have, like "iron ons" you use for T-shirts.

Originally posted by LordCorellon1:

Now with making a mod. I was thinking of getting into making armor skins. Is this possible with the dev kit?

you would wear whatever armor you wish, but the skin would be for a set(like wearing fur armor for cold, but making it look like fur lined plate). Also looking to make a skin that would just add to current armor types, kinda like putting decals over armor you already have, like "iron ons" you use for T-shirts.

Making armor skins should be possible yes. I don't know the specific needs of it yet, never tried. I'll need to look into it. I might cover that in a future tutorial. In the meantime if you open an existing armor skin item BP and look at all the modified values that should guide you on everything you need to do to make one.

As for decals.... using the existing system I believe you could make variations of existing armor skins, but I don't think the code in place would support saving UE4 decals to the armor so I think you would need to script some handling for that.

List updated with episode 5 where I provide further example of replication in use.

@ Zen - Quick question, is it possible to change the "F" an "NUM" key structure bindings in the editor at all? eg F1 = cliff platform F2 = cooking pot etc. As some of the modded structures I work with require foundations/floor support and I also check collision with walls/roof. It's easier to just hit the "F" / "NUM" keys to spawn this stuff on the fly.

@Shazza
I don't think there is a way to change that with what is accessable

Also I forgot to update this post with the episode before but there is a tutorial now covering config options via the INI

HI

Every time I "complete" a mod and a upload it to steam everything works, but upon loading the mod nothing exists that should exist and nothing changes no matter what i do in or out of the kit. Thanks in advance!