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UE4 Rollercoaster [v1.0 Now with real physics!]

Teddy0k
Explorer
Playing with scale in VR, this rollercoaster shrinks you down the size of a mouse and zooms you around a living room!


Download v1.0;
http://www.mediafire.com/download/v4s08nfl9pct339/UE4Rollercoaster_v1_0.zip

To celebrate the release of Unreal Engine 4 I decided to make a rollercoaster! I've been interested in playing with scale in VR (like in my RTS demo), so I thought it'd be cool to see what it feels like to be shrunk down to a tiny size. Turns out it's pretty awesome!

For those of you that are riftless, here's a full playthrough video;




Thanks!

Update v1.0
-Updated to Unreal Engine v4.4.1
-Added fixed timestep simulation to physics to ensure rollercoaster behaves the same at any frame rate
-Added an option to lock the camera's pitch to the track (press c)
-Some more optimizations

Update v0.4
-Added semi-realistic rollercoaster physics, is now a proper gravity coaster
-Adjusted the track to work with real physics
-Changed keypress to Enter key or Gamepad A
-Fixed a bug with the launcher PixelsPerDisplay setting

Update v0.3
-Updated to Unreal 4.3 with Oculus SDK 0.4.1
-Added position tracking support, fixed scaling issues
-Supports Direct Mode rendering, with the output mirrored to the monitor
-Added a front end launcher with graphics settings to help get good performance (I will release this as a standalone plugin soon)
-Optimized the post process code in UE4 for VR
-Added a frame counter to the bottom of the screen if performance is bad

Update v0.2
-Improved spline physics so the rollercoaster is much smoother around corners
-Added a jump over the lamp
-Added a sideways corkscrew at the end
-Added some new sounds
-Ported code to a UnrealEngine plugin to make it easy to share the tools (more on that later)


Editor
I've ported the code for my rollercoaster to an Unreal Engine plugin, so you can make your own rollercoaster with doing any coding!

Download the plugin (supports UnrealEngine 4.6.1)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/az87qdqxc1yqx4s/RollercoasterPlugin_v4_6_1.zip

Source code is up here;
https://github.com/Teddy0/RollercoasterPlugin

Here's a tutorial video on how to set it up and make a simple rollercoaster;

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howarthc
Honored Guest
Darn - no 32 bit version. Any chance you can provide this also? I have an older PC.

Anonymous
Not applicable
Anyone have an idea of how the cart accesses the spline path info? I'm trying to do this myself, but I'm stuck on the actual act of attaching my cart to the track.

Teddy0k
Explorer
I've uploaded all my code to github, can you access this?
https://github.com/Teddy0/UE4Rollercoaster

I'm trying to figure out how to package this up with the editor for release, so people can use it to make their own rollercoasters. Will hopefully get it up this weekend

Anonymous
Not applicable
That would be awesome! Please keep me updated, that would be very helpful.

Teddy0k
Explorer
I've uploaded a new version of the Rollercoaster, you can download it here;
https://mega.co.nz/#!0J5XhDqJ!HiHqK1PRiyVi-d4Frd4si1Efdx7XKZZSuC4gn0ua5Fk

What's new?
-Improved spline physics so the rollercoaster is much smoother around corners
-Added a jump over the lamp
-Added a sideways corkscrew at the end
-Added some new sounds
-Ported code to a UnrealEngine plugin to make it easy to share the tools (more on that later)


I'm packaging up the Rollercoaster plugin for UE4 and making a tutorial video, so you can try making your own rollercoasters without need to do any coding!

Teddy0k
Explorer
I've ported the code for my rollercoaster to an Unreal Engine plugin, so you can make your own rollercoaster with doing any coding!

Here's a tutorial video on how to set it up and make a simple rollercoaster;



You can download everything you need from here;
https://mega.co.nz/#!1Ep1mKJC!G_N6CuvhMWi2KRc9U13kRxqa1I0rTlZgqY_9QihAVIA

Hope you guys make something awesome with it! 8-)

V0gelz
Honored Guest
Will you update your Git Repo?
Date: Apr 15, 2014 06:14 AM PDT Status: Received

Teddy0k
Explorer
I will soon, but FYI the full source code is in the plugin zip file

nanomind
Honored Guest
Hi Teddy,

Thanks for this, looks very good; will give it a try ASAP.

Best,

Nano

PixelCharge
Honored Guest
How did you get that house btw? did u make it?