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A HISMSpawner (on foreach sublevel) has three random streams set up (x,y,z) which are seeded with x,y and z grid positions of this sublevel in the surperstructure respectively (ranging from 0 to 200.000.000). We need three streams because of the int size limit and the size of the superstructure. The...

Video up now, had forgtotten actually publish it .

Yep, the fun is about to begin indeed :D ! I will need your math skills for geometries in sublevels later on, so get ready for my stupid questions :lol: . When a few basic geometries work, I will add a first enemy type (I got a little UFO from a unreal marketplaceplace AI apackage running already). ...

I am even later , - a hearty welcome, cartons!

I am a bit out of the IB loop these days (see current Unreal Enigne project), but return I will . This work is not done yet, harf!

Streaming pause down to 8 to 12 seconds, every 10 minutes of gameplay (or so :lol: ). This is not classic level loading, but just streaming in more stuff in far distance, updating shadows more nearby and forgetting stuff in the opposite far distance. Load game time for inital spawn is about 25 secs....

That is a great idea ! It brings you best of both worlds - fun with your kids and quality programming time. Also, I dont think there are many kid friendly rpgs, let alone toolsets.

I am giving up on smooth streaming for now, there will be a 10 to 20 sec loading pause once in a while while streamig in a new part of the world.

Still, lots of progress made on world generation :

https://youtu.be/ZNjtcsCU_Us

Do "set TickEnabled" to false on the HISMSpawenr in question after construcion index has reached its limit to save overhead.

Note to self: Each HISMSpawner (72 in worst case for field with radius 4) will spawn its content (HISM or true actor) one piece per tickevent of the correspondent HISMSpawner. An index on the HISMSpawner will remember the position reached last tick (construction progress index). With 5 meter/s max s...

Another one to try: place the destruction logic into actor itself, measuring its distance to centrr and sekf destruct (if that is possible at all) based on distance Crazy thought: What if actors would procdurally spawn their neighbours? A running cascade of self replicating actors reading spawn inst...