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Square Builder

Astaraa - Blueprints - Jan 30, 2024
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Build levels, floorplans, buildings, and mazes with squares. Includes versatile grid material and elevator.

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  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    5.0 - 5.4
  • Download Type
    Asset Pack
    This product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.

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Build levels, floorplans, buildings, and mazes with squares and a simple web-based tool. 👷🏗️

Since they are basic text, plans can be made w/ any notepad + shared as text.


Example:

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I personally find this tool useful for:

  • quick prototype layouts
  • foundations of buildings

Makes it easy to test adjustments later on.


Whenever I need floors and walls, I'll drop this in instead of placing them manually. A task which could easily take an hour or more instead takes a few seconds. Or a dungeon for example, placed manually can take a long time to adjust (maybe I want to see if a bigger version feels better), whereas this can go back and forth between changes in seconds. That's where it shines for me.



UPDATE 2024-04-22

New intelligent decoration placement. --- Example

Added B_SwapTrigger for more advanced uses than B_BuildTrigger.

Updated wall rotation for walls that have specific inside and outside.

Added simple torch mesh for prototyping.

Added 3 material instances (AstaraaGrid_0/1/2).

Elevator trigger now scales with actor.


UPDATE 2024-03-02

Better centering logic.

Fixed light positioning when there are vertical transforms.

Added scaling and rotation transforms.

Added DecorMatOverride (option to apply override material to decor (meshes)).


UPDATE 2024-01-30

Added build trigger for in-game changes (works in multiplayer).

Added more light options.

Fixed light positioning.

Added stress testing options.

Technical Details

Features:

  • Make layouts from squares.
  • Many settings.
  • Everything has descriptive tooltips.
  • Easy to replace with your own walls, floors, materials, etc.
  • Includes lift elevator.
  • Includes versatile grid material.
  • Add multiple floors.
  • Optional vertical/horizontal beams.
  • Wall variations: doorways, windows, etc.
  • Hierarchical instanced static meshes for performance.
  • Add actors or meshes to specific squares.
  • Corridor functionality is new. Corridor meshes are NOT included.
  • Auto-populate lights.
  • Intelligent decor placement (place everywhere, along wall, doorways, windows, etc.)
  • Build and Swap triggers for in-game changes.

Number of Blueprints: 6

Input: not-applicable

Network Replicated: Yes

Supported Development Platforms:

Windows: Yes

Mac: No

Documentation: https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/Oayl/unreal-engine-how-to-use-square-builder

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Tags

PROCEDURALLEVEL GENERATORARCHITECTUREGRID GENERATIONMAZEPROTOTYPEPROTOTYPINGDUNGEON GENERATORMAZE GENERATOR

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