Assignment

  1. Watch & Take a screenshot of your progress to post to your blog

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    I have already finished them before so I'm going to introduce what I did these days

    I have tried to connect REST API to get data from other services.

    So I tried to connect Youtube and Twitch streaming message API with the plugin called VaRest.

    VaRest is the plugin for parsing JSON object and I created this blueprint file to get comments data from specific live streaming

    GitHub - ufna/VaRest: REST API plugin for Unreal Engine 4 - we love restfull backend and JSON communications!

    This is the part of my blueprint to login and get Twitch comments from Twitch API

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    And used 3D Text to visualize these comments in real time.

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  1. Prep your computer. Find the computer you will be using for this class. If it’s a departmental computer, make sure you can access it weekly for doing homework.

    I have bought my own PC and built by myself.

    I put the whole parts info here for your references.

    I use Unreal Engine 4/5 with no problem and fast performance.

    CPU

    Ryzen9 3750X

    GPU

    RTX2080Ti

    RAM

    Corsair Vengeance 32GB x 4

    Storage

    M.2 SSD 1TB (forgot the brand sorry)