BroncoDrome

BroncoDrome is a 3rd person vehicular combat game being developed using Unreal Engine 4. This project was created to satisfy the requirements of CS 481 - Senior Design, but it will likely be the start of a multi-semester project that new groups will incrementally take over. This project will be an opportunity for CS students who are interested in game design careers to work on a relevant project for their capstone.

Contributors

Name	Role
Juan Becerra	Car and Game Mechanics Programmer
Nate St. George	Car and Game Mechanics Programmer
Olivia Thomas	Car and Game Mechanics Programmer
Jared White	Car and Game Mechanics Programmer
Mikey Krentz	Mapping and AI Programmer
Jared Lytle	Mapping and AI Programmer
Connor Wood	Mapping and AI Programmer
Joey Sacino	Texture and UI Artist
Tj Davis	Audio Producer

Project Setup

Development Environment

BroncoDrome is developed using Unreal 4.26.0. For developing in C++, Visual Studio 2019 is highly recommended along with the ‘Game development with C++’ workload as Unreal can automatically generate VS Solutions and hot-load compiled code straight from the IDE. For more info, check out this article.

Git LFS and Unreal/Git Integration

This repository uses Git LFS, which means that large binary assets are stored in a separate location from this repository. If assets don’t seem to show up in your editor, try entering the following command in the root directory to pull these assets:

git lfs pull

Be sure to enable Git Source Control within the project editor. To do so:

Select 'Source Control' in the main Unreal Window (next to the 'Save' icon in the top-left corner)
Select 'Change Source Control Settings'
Select 'Git (beta version)' as the Provider
Provide a path to git.exe if it is not already filled
Provide your GitHub login credentials if prompted
Click 'Accept Settings'

Now, most assets (namely Blueprint assets) will have small icons indicating their change status (pending local commit, changed by another user, etc.). Additionally, you can right-click on these assets to view source control history or to open up Git Diffing / Merging tools.

Building

Download the Epic Games Launcher: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/download
Download Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ -- ENSURE THAT YOUR VERSION IS 4.26chaos
Clone this repository
Launch the Unreal Engine from the Epic Games Launcher
Open BrocncoDrome.uproject in the UnrealEditor
In the top of your editor you will see a build menu with many choices for Building, Compiling, Testing, etc. These can build installers for specific systems; however this build process can still be automated, see our CI/CD directory in the repository for more information.