Talk about EagleCad without ever opening it
I spent WAY to long getting leg ground detection working for the patrol bots: It still isn’t that great but it’s probably as good as I wanted it to be. The big thing is that I can put the bots on ramps and they look kinda right: The basic idea too complicated: essentially you draw […]
I’m constantly pondering what to do about the “boss room” for the game. Honestly I’ve been stumped on how to make it fun. In the meantime I’ve done a bunch of smaller things on the game such as: Another map I tried my hand at making a much much bigger map: The thought was that […]
I added in rain and some mood lighting. There were also a bunch of other smaller changes but this is where I’m at. It’s very dark and the rain kinda looks like pills falling so I’ll probably need to do another pass here. I’m happy with the water material I setup here: Essentially its just […]
The borderlands 4 issues with unreal (see: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/borderlands-4s-latest-patch-triggers-a-flurry-of-performance-complaints-but-gearbox-says-new-stuttering-problems-should-resolve-over-time-as-the-shaders-continue-to-compile/ ) made me realize I was doing all of my materials wrong. Originally the way I pulled in 3d meshes generated a material of each slot in the mesh. So I thougth I was being clever by using material slots to determine colors (so I didn’t have […]
Got the double barreled shotgun in game: I also added in some tracers to make shooting a bit better: On the back-end side I re-worked how damage functions, so now there’s falloff for shots: (Note the damage numbers in the corner). This should make things a bit better in terms of longer range engagements. I […]
Now that I’ve closed the gameplay loop I realized there’s really nothing pushing the player along. Right now if I just have “go destroy this thing” the gameplay would get stale very fast. To counter this I wanted to make some kinda timer that would force the player to go out and explore/accomplish their mission. […]
Here is the first full(ish) gameplay demo for this game mode (gotta use youtube because of WordPress size limits) Big things that changed:I added a bit more to the test gameplay map: Including a quick fence model: Also I put lights ontop of all the bots to indicate what team they’re on. Blue=player team, red […]
I added in a bunch of stuff but showing off is kind hard right now… Gotta add in damage multipliers based upon difficulty level.
I closed the “Game Loop” by adding announcements to the hud and creating a “OnGameModeAnnouncement” event that huds can bind to: The look isn’t ideal but I’m working through it. In addition when I flipped things to “Standard” game mode (which has pretty much all of the bot types) my fps went from like 60 […]
Had a few learning experiences with Unreal when working on the global game mode settings stuff (Also I used the term “group ID” in the game but I call it “team ID” randomly so bare with me here and assume they’re the same thing). 1 – Event dispatchers kick off before the game tick (which […]