Final Major Project [Post 6] ~ Engine Update

Other than creating a lot more assets for my level, I have been working a lot in UDK itself to make my game work how I would like it to. I had problems for a while trying to figure out how to get the player to “steal” items, and finding a tutorial online was proving more difficult as I didn’t know the correct term to search for. I have found over the years that if you don’t know the correct word, then you won’t find what you’re looking for. However, I figured that I was thinking about this completely the wrong way, in that I was looking for “picking up” items or “stealing” items, but really all I wanted was the item to disappear when the player activated it. Once I had figured this out, I realised that maybe the item itself didn’t need to be taken, but it needed to appear that it was gone. I then just set up a simple Kismet table with a Matinee “visibility animation” attached to a trigger on the asset.

To create the right feel to the level, I made the whole level completely dark by disabling “global illumination” I then tried tackling the problem of getting the player to emit light, like they were holding a torch. A followed a tutorial where a spot light needed to be “Hard attached” to the player’s right arm. This works completely fine in third person view, but because I have a specific time period for my game, I don’t want to be able to see the default robot player. I have set my level to first person and hidden the futuristic default gun. When in first person, the attached light moves from side to side when the player looks around, but stays stationary when looking up or down. The light moves when the player jumps, but just wont move when looking. I have asked people in class about this and the main opinion seems to be that I will have to look into coding. I have no experience with game coding, as I am doing an art course and have no idea where to start with this, so I am going to try and find a way around this or make it somewhat easier for myself.

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Final Major Project [Post 13] ~ Pretty Glowy Things

This week I have mainly just been finishing off everything and making sure everything looks good, I redid the walls in the hall to be more efficient, and made a new texture for the lower part of the walls. Every time I looked at the brickwork on the hall walls I just felt that it never really looked right, I was happy with the normal and specular but not the diffuse. I painted over my diffuse to make it less saturated and more of a brown colour rather than grey. This has made the room feel a lot warmer in my opinion and it compliments the new wallpaper in the seated area quite nicely. I am quite happy with this room now, but I feel that maybe it needs more things in it to make it less empty. I have been researching a lot about animating a glowy material for my logs and embers in the fireplaces and I finally found a solution. Most of the techniques I found previously, required a matinee animation and I thought that there must be a different way to do this, as I have seen...

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Rooftop Project ~ Post 2

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