Underwater Drone

Sean Dachtler - Blueprints - Nov 22, 2021

A robot designed to be remotely controlled to navigate and explore areas underwater.

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.15 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.3
  • Download Type
    Asset Pack
    This product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.

Demo Video


Hello and welcome! The Underwater Drone pack is a product that contains one underwater robot, with an optional claw arm attachment, and a buoy that can be used as a remote tether/antenna if you want. It’s a fairly straightforward actor with simple options for operating the claw, handling lights, and other things. All materials also have mask textures so you can change the colors to those you're choosing for the most part. The Underwater Drone itself uses the character class, so all movement, replication, and other matters are handled as part of the standard character class though unlike most running characters it is simply able to swim. All details on its appearance and actions are also replicated on their own where needed.


Overall it's a fairly simple actor that you can swim around with and explore the depths in your projects, or maybe set up to do some undersea work with its arm or other things you may bolt onto it.


Update: 12/13/2022

Added solar panels mesh for the Buoy.

Technical Details

Features:

  • An underwater drone that can swim through water and explore the depths with its light and robot arm.
  • Masked materials, allowing you to modify the color of your drone and buoy to whatever you want more easily.
  • Comes with basic particles and audio to help it feel like it's really moving around underwater.
  • Fully set up animation blueprints allowing it to swim wherever you want, and to point its camera at whatever you look at.
  • Fully replicated, allowing for cooperative underwater exploration.

 

Number of Blueprints:

Input: Mouse, Keyboard, and Gamepad.

Network Replicated: Yes

Supported Development Platforms: Windows

Documentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DgjhJ-iHT4HHSlOeN9C0isqhipsmsyhVhaRF7fxC-1M/edit?usp=sharing