Procedural Meshes are very confusing in unreal. Building them in specific floor patterns is extremely complicated without incurring a lot of very complex math and array indexing. I spent too much time attempting to build a procedurally generated plane that adds a new section for every node along the procedural generator algorithm. The previous issue of spawning a different actor at every node causes issue with the overall number of actors placed in world, and can eventually cause massive amounts of lag. Overall, the complexity of the process forced me to look into other options.

What did I find? Well I have two different avenues that I can take that are much simpler. The one that I have implemented so far is what is called an Instanced Static Mesh in Unreal. Basically, This mesh allows you to add an instance of a pre chosen mesh at a chosen location, and instead of creating an entire new actor, it simply expands the actor that is already in the world. So now, the entire platform is made from one actor! The only source of actors in the world besides a few defaults are the enemies that are spawned in randomly along the path.

There are still some issues with this method though. One version of the generator is supposed to connect pathways to form closed loops, but due to the code there are almost always gaps that I can not find a way to fill in easily. This leads me to the other option I mentioned before, a Voxel world. Voxel worlds are low impact, infinitely expandable, and easily manipulated. The new goal is to implement the generator in a Voxel world that carves the map out of the world like a canyon. Based on the testing done so far, this will not be very difficult at all and should look great when finished.