Lyra Starter Game Overview | Tech Talk | State of Unreal 2022 

Just opened Lyra project and I have to say...it gave me depression... I though I knew how things worked but now I'm pretty much back to square one...

Introduction 0:04 What is included with Lyra 1:43 Problems solved by Lyra 3:00 -- Mechanisms of Lyra Experiences 4:06 Available experiences 4:49 Parts of an experience 6:56 Game feature plugins 7:11 Actions (Game feature actions) 8:01 Pawn data (Hero data) 8:34 Ability Sets 8:59 User-facing experience 9:56 Demonstration of user-facing experiences 11:02 Online Features (online subsystem) 11:58 Scalability 13:20 Manny & Quinn 14:40 Animation Setup and demonstration 14:57 Cosmetics and Team Coloring 16:22 Importing and configuring a Metahuman 18:37 Setting-up team coloring 20:48 Input (Enhanced Input) 23:47 -- Implementation of the Elimination Mode 26:00 Greyboxing with Geometry Scripting 26:18 Making a new level 27:58 Abilities and Input tags 32:48 Items and Equipment 36:25 Creating a new Weapon 44:27 Creating a new Ability 57:00 What's next 1:01:36

Finally, a sample that covers some at least a bit complex stuff. Thanks for it not being Blueprint only and thanks for enabling multiplayer. This is by far the best learning resource released by Epic.

This implementation is just ELEGANT! It's easy to understand the software engineering considerations behind the modular design, as a MA student in CS. It provides a solid starting point for people like me who wants to practice ideas and make prototypes and make games being able to evolve long term!

I'm sure everyone who says wow this is amazing it has so many functions and possibilities has not worked seriously with it yet.

They really need to explain what they're doing with GAS and gameplay tags here under the hood. I understand everything that they're doing besides why they're adding tags and how those tags are causing the abilities to trigger.

Just graduated and am expecting my BFA in a couple weeks. Excitedly, I recently came across this. I feel as if I needed this while doing my BFA. Might just be a newbie's opinion still though, if some of the Game Design Universities provided Lyra as a base to learn from, I feel as if we would see a new and potentially better breed of designers, programmers, AND artists. This is absolutely amazing coming from my perspective of someone who is not so adept at the programming side of game design; thank you for all the time and energy the teams put into this for us.

Really good video, please make more like this, I love how they go through the correct ways of working with thw system and how to setup our own weapon and ability with lyra, Thanks!

This is great, watching this over and over again

Cool stuff! I doubt anyone from Epic ever reads these comments, but it would be awesome if Lyra handled toggling to first person as well.

Truly incredible work by the Epic Games team!

This is what I wait for so long you should make some things like this because so many people want to learn or start with game dev but lack of template

Great video for helping me build intuition around the engine and the logic underlying editing.

10 min in. Can already tell it’s hella worth the time

First, I want to thank Epic for committing to this (and I hope it is long-term), and to Simon and Michael for your presentations. This is of course just the tip of the iceberg on a very, large and complex iceberg, so I'm hoping much more is coming. I think the biggest question in my mind as a very small team Indie, is what the practical reuse strategies will be. It could be when a team is starting from scratch, or is instead looking to extract value from Lyra into their own already ongoing projects. Lyra is as huge and complex as is Unreal Engine. I think larger, experienced teams will know how to take what Lyra presents and recast it into their own projects, but it looks formidable to Indies.

Thanks, this helped me so much, so many nuggets. Thanks for creating.

Lyra was my biggest suprise and my fave UE content to date

17:05 How are things set up to have the other team not attacking? Is there a cheat to turn off aggression or is it part of the game rules? (edit: seems it is Editor Preferences: Lyra Starter Game: Lyra Developer Settings: Lyra Bots: Allow Player Bots to Attack)

So grateful to the Epic team for a great tool and a great example project. 👏

This is actually very useful, especially for beginners. Imagine the time we can save by getting all the animations, character movement, game logic, etc. pre-made. Its also a good learning project I believe.

Thanks to @Mauricio Tamo 0:04 Introduction 1:43 What is included with Lyra 3:00 Problems solved by Lyra -- Mechanisms of Lyra 4:06 Experiences 4:49 Available experiences 6:56 Parts of an experience 7:11 Game feature plugins 8:01 Actions (Game feature actions) 8:34 Pawn data (Hero data) 8:59 Ability Sets 9:56 User-facing experience 11:02 Demonstration of user-facing experiences 11:58 Online Features (online subsystem) 13:20 Scalability 14:40 Manny & Quinn 14:57 Animation Setup and demonstration 16:22 Cosmetics and Team Coloring 18:37 Importing and configuring a Metahuman 20:48 Setting-up team coloring 23:47 Input (Enhanced Input) -- Implementation of the Elimination Mode 26:00 Elimination Mode 26:18 Greyboxing with Geometry Scripting 27:58 Making a new level 32:48 Abilities and Input tags 36:25 Items and Equipment 44:27 Creating a new Weapon 57:00 Creating a new Ability 1:01:36 What's next?

Please more tutorials like that, its just a amazing show about who to teach

Deep design. Thank you..

Gold!

I love Unreal engine 5 ❤

Please make a 100% blueprint version of Lyra for us who prefer BP only.

awesome!

What I don't like about this approach to weapons / items is that the numbers for balancing are scattered all over the place. Ammo is in the Item Definition, under Inventory Fragment Set Stats. The damage type, rate of fire, impulse strength and shoot animation is in GA Weapon Fire. The equip / unequip animations, damage and spread are in the Weapon Instance. All in all we have 3 core assets to open every time we want to change animations and / or tweak and balance weapon settings. I would much prefer to either have a single data asset with all the numbers gun has, so a designer can balance it in that single point of entry, or to use a Data Table with values of all the weapons in a single place. Similar thing with animations. It's nice that it's modular, but animators would need to go need into the gun assets to change those animations. I would rather have them in an animation subgraph that I change per weapon.

please, animation blueprints explanation!, distance matching, warping, etc

Thanks for the overview! Cant wait for the documentation covering all the systems mentioned in the video.

Is there a place where we can get the slides shown during this presentation? (Haven’t found a link?)

The Metahuman looked one of the ready made ones. Can we use a customized version ? Thanks very much for the hard work.

I love Lyra, but for gods sake, that input system is hell to work in. I was ripping my hair out for days trying to reverse engineer and figure out how the general workflow was supposed to be like and trying to figure out how the settings UI would add those inputs to the UI, and even trying to find out how the input settings get saved was a hassle.

Wow what a complex system. It's a great resource to learn game dev the unreal way

0:00 man def knows how to do it

This is good information and it answered a lot of information for me about how to get a new level into Lyra. It would be useful to have an overview on how the Animation system works, and how one would got about adding new animation modes like swimming and ledge climbing. The animation blueprint seems to use systems that are a big departure from how animations were handled in UE4

Lyra is my favourite game on un real eng8ne

Hi , Why don't you do a tutorial on adding your own weapons with own animations please. Just changing the templates weapons is not much of a help. The anim Montages of the weapons needs to be setup also , not sure how to do that.

This video is honestly a bit underwhelming, as often it feels more like an advertisement ("Look at how simple this is! The engine is so powerful!"), and less like a useful explanation on how to make use of the Lyra project. Also, based on the title, I am not sure what to make of the "overview"-aspect and the "Tech Talk"-aspect of the video, because while it provides some overview, and also goes into some details, it seems to be quite inconsistent in its choice about what details to present, and what details to omit... ultimately, it contains a strange mix of Lyra specifics, the Lyra project structure, mechanisms of the Unreal Engine itself, etc... So, while the video itself is not bad, I think it would have been better to make separate videos about, for example "The structure of the Lyra project", "How Lyra uses features of the Unreal Engine", etc... or at least to make the video structure itself clearer, and which details to cover, and which details to jump over.

When I add a metahuman and follow the steps of retargeting I receive the errors " Retarget Pose From Mesh - Start / End Bone in target IK Rig Bone Chain not found " Does anyone know of a fix - I have no idea how to add these bones to the IK bone chain..

I've created a character selection screen with metahuman characters for each player and it works fine locally modifying the add random parts blueprint, however in a packaged game in separate computers, all players get the hosts character, is there any tutorials/documentation that can guide us on how to implement this when packaging?

This is a fantastic base project for a third person shooter , I would really like a similar tutorial on setting up melee weapon 👍

just wanna ask how to deal with with mixamo or unity skeleton? is it possible?

After looking at the Animation system and noticing how the Foot sliding/Turn in place system was done I can honestly say I would be surprised if the designer behind ALS wasn't also the designer of this Animation system.... The reason I say that is because everything in the Animation Blueprints is set up in a very specific way, such that you can't easily replicate it outside of that. I think the designer of ALS specifically built his career around the ideal that he should learn to make things as non-portable and non-object oriented as possible so that in order to use any of his code you would need to rebuild the entire system from scratch.

Wow batman, a networked gameplay system that can be extended to any genre.

Anyone know how i would package lyra with EOS on the epic games version of ue5?

hi can i a singleplayer game with lyra or is that multi only?

Where can I download this PPT? thanks

why not break these tutorials into sections and use some production?

Wish there was a barebones version of lyra that focused just on the enhanced input and the ability system. A lot of the features really make it difficult to edit lyra and aren't needed for smaller games

Such a good starter game to build on, hopefully more tutorial to make other game mode in Lyra like battle royal or something

watched this first time and was kinda hype about how it works but second time I'm just sat wonder why its not broken up into smaller videos and maybe has more of a tutorial series vibe and a direction, of like here is Lyra starting point, but we will show you how to create a brand new experience/gamemode with its own ability set / level options / new ability / new weapons from scratch, which this has some of these things ability and weapon but not even chaptered. I feel like Lyra would be great starting out all over again as a hobbyist and not messing with Unreal for a couple months after starting a new job but its to early for good in depth video tutorials from community that ones from Unreal should be a bit more focused. Like would be interesting to see the old UE4 tutorial that was making a networked game, which would allow for you to set avatar / pfp / in-game name and that in blueprint. Much of which i think is already good to go in Lyra. But would also give you reason to show us how to add new buttons in the UI scheme for both creating the profile data and a new experience of our own making? Maybe some video going along with the UE5 documentation on Lyra (which is mostly for C++ right now, which i should start learning) and not how to use/learn from Lyra. I feel like im not gonna learn to make new abilities, just come back to this video to redo that part but slightly different for each. Like i wanna know how to keep 3rd person camera option for experiences but make a FPS my default. Maybe i want to have a normal sprint and the dash as a pickup ability? Show us some of that stuff coming up. Make us a new normal sprint and how we'd have to change or set the shift to a new ability and the old ability into equipment or items? or if it was normal sprint going forward but was dash moving any other direction? Like how would I change the character BP to be able to have both of those kinda abilities on one button like that? Do Unreal Devs even read YT comments? lol

what about first person shooter games?

We need 2 VIDEOS: First how to set up the Backend on the EOS Dev Site. Second how to get the EOS Version of Lyra to ACTUALLY compile. Until I can get that to work it is NOT a Multiplayer Template.

If it is meant to grow over time, what kind of changes have been made since 5.0? What's next on the roadmap?

really need chapters for navigating this

its annoying how i open the same stuff as you and it shows me "None"

Hi, first of I must say that is a really great introduction to the features :) I'm planning to start building a dungeon crawler with action combat, with melee, ranged, and magic attacks. On top of that, the game will have a complex itemization system that will add abilities or affect them with its stats. Since I have mostly visual coding experience I ask myself if this framework is fitting a game like that and my skill level. And how much C++ experience is necessary to pick up this framework and build a melee-driven template. Any opinion is highly welcome. Cheers

Anyone know how to add those diamond shaped points to drag around in the editor?

This is awesome!!!

Can you add chapters?

can someone help me. I imported a custom metahumen. and have done the retarget pose from mesh in my blueprint as shown in the video but I get warnings that it doesn't find the bones and when I use my meta in the map it doesn't seem to actually hold the weapon how can I fix this ? it is in UE5.1

40:32 But you cannot have different heros with different sockets using the same weapon. Right? All your heros in your game that you want to use that weapon would need to have that same socket. Another option is to provide an array of sockets, and the weapon will try to attach to the first socket that exists in the target skeleton.

How many players can it support in a single server for multiplayer? 100 like Fortnite? (Assuming you have optimal hardware, good connections, no laggy code etc.)

and no one on the Internet talks about the reality that there is no server optimization, no hit registration, no lag compensation, etc.

I know you need to make money , but all these ads are killing this

Can you release a marketplace asset with only the animations?

Old video but pro tip: Play the video at .75x speed and you'll understand more of the info. Dude talked way too fast for me. Great info though and thank you!

Lyra doesn't come with projectile weapons other than the grenade, right?

👍

New mannequins look cool guys 👍

Honestly anyone who fully grasps what this means is very excited. Still a lot to learn for anyone struggling with the concepts the example provided should be interested in all the configured gameplay elements.

Can you push a Lyra game to epic store

New Unreal Tournament please

Thanks for the video UE 5 is getting better and better good job, please put these bots in Fortnite :D

Would love to see First Person Shooter support for Lyra!

has anyone got swimming to work in Lyra?

This is a awesome system but think it would be more adoptable to have this as a plugin you can add into your project rather than having to build from the starter game.

It's nice to see industry standards straight from Epic, but Lyra has way too many dependencies for anyone to make any meaningful gameplay changes to it outside of adding to the systems that are already there.

LYRA in VR?

i can "see" some of the parallels that this has with Unity. This will help my transition from unity into Unreal. P.S. if a unity CEO reads this comment, you can take your price increase and shove it up your A cenSored cenSored. Unity is just a black hole of corporate greed.

Please add a vr example to Lyra!!!

No preset for an RPG or anything on how to use this to create one, prestset with character selection, swapping from first to third person and a controller more suited to an RPG

at 06:59 I try to trace the "Game Feature to Enable" variable (in this case "ShooterCore") in C++ to see how Lyra handles the loading and activation of said Game Feature Plugins. But the Game Feature Plugin URL printed out is an empty string. Did someone figured out how the game handle the loading and activation of ShooterCore game feature?

Hey I can’t pack the game

do u know my dad he owns epic gams

Can I make game with this asset and sell it

Lyra shoud be open source

22:26

Can you record these things on lower resolution monitors ? I'm watching this on a 2160x1440 display and still can't read the text...

We traded paragon for this

Silver!

POV: You Miss Clicked

Steam is going to be flooded with so many 3rd rate Lyra flips.

Diamond

Perhaps the implementation is good, but I have a culture shock. My brain refuses to accept so many magical settings that come out of nowhere. We went there, I don’t know why; Take it, I don’t know how; put it here, I don’t know where from... And all this is repeated in a circle. I don’t remember where I started... )))

LYRA lul wtf is lyra? this has to be UT5

CTRL SHIFT S BRO, ITS NOT THAT HARD

Hmm Dina blaster remake anyone?

Hehe that is m name