Just a little battle plan for next steps:
0. Shortcuts to remember: use ctrl-key down to to rewire nodes, press c for comments inside the blueprints, draw of output pins and select "make" option to turn them into variables (same as promote to variable?)
1. Is world position rebase still working correctly with the sublevel anchors (force rebase and see results)?
2. Add a rendertotext call to display our large scale world position over the head of the player character, maye also use rendertotext for info on spawners (level position, large scale world position); maybe diretcly use HUD
3. Could add a debug cube/shape for last spawn trigger and reabse trigger to actually see them
4. Build simple spawner actor (with no mesh of its own) to be used for every sublevel (this spawner will likely generate hierarchical instanced static meshes around him, created by an hierarchical instanced static mesh component inside the spawner); spawner's construction script allows us to see the results diretcly in the editor; use lods for the static meshes to increase performance even more, looks easy; exposing the variables of tge soawning algorithm allwos us real time experimentation in the edtior; pre-combine actor groups placed in a level into single static mesh pieces (group select them and press RMB, select turn into static mesh option then); pre make diffent instances for differnet color schemes as we can onky modify an ibstance's transform, but not the material; leave scale at 1.0, test if this is a must); manipulating arrays of HISM uses repalceAtLogic, moving the last element into the gap, careful here...
5. Populate world with these - rather boring at the beginning - spawners and debug, especially with an eye for performance (size of sublevels, streaming radius, alternative ways to create the cube meshes, maybe use an actor pool solution, etc.)
6. Create spalsh/intro screen (Pt0 for the win
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7. Create main menu (Begin Play, Options, Quit for starters)
8. Enable entering a large scale world coordintae to spawn the palyer into the world at this location (likely asked for after gebin play button is pressed)
9. Think of interaction between nighbouring spawners: interaction like nueighbouring spawners influence chance for type of current soawner...
To be continued..
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