Good at making todo lists, bad at clearing the todo list
A while back I made a terminal model that looked meh but was designed to serve as a stand in for some kind of computer interaction: I started out wanted to make a command line interface, but then I changed my mind and wanted a Doom 3 style interface: Setting up the actors To accomplish […]
Also for some reason my output log is taking up 8 gigs of memory. I admit I had a divide by zero error but why did it fill up the output log to the point of nearly crashing my computer… Other news, I reworked the bot deaths so they spray oil everywhere: This is a […]
The old hud was starting to bother me so I leaned more into a simplier hud that I can expand upon later. The original hud I was going for a kind of skewed look as if you were wearing a helmet and the information was displayed on these green dots on the screen. While a […]
I went into this then I found this bass sound and just kinda rolled with it I found a sound a liked and rolled with it (it a bit loud fyi) Here’s the synths (where the concert flute is a sampler) The flute is surprisingly nice is from the Abelton orchestral woodwinds pack: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/orchestral-woodwinds/. That […]
I wanted to mesh paint (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/getting-started-with-mesh-texture-color-painting-in-unreal-engine) a bit in unreal and thought “Oh I’ll just flip this virutal texture box” I have a pretty good pc (4090 24gb) I’m surprised its taking so 5+ minutes (but then again I’ve made NO effort to optimize any of my materials… That being said… I guess I made […]
Threw the muzzle flash 3d model into the explosion so we get some kinda fire out of it. It works much better than I expected: Also attempted to make some light-bulbs that hang from the ceiling but it turns out the unreal provided cable component (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/cable-components-in-unreal-engine) doesn’t apply physics forces to whatever it’s attached to. […]
Churning through this first semi-finalized level (which will probably be the demo level). The idea here is that the warehouse will open up to an underground section.
I re-wrote a bunch of the patrol bot AI to use EQS (Environmental query system: see https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/environment-query-system-quick-start-in-unreal-engine#2-environmentquerycontext ) , which should greatly simplify the the bots and give them better criteria to find spots that see the player, but are also kinda close. Here’s the EQS Tree: Essentially EQS is a way to break up […]
I made a real spawn location for the patrol bots: Isn’t too much to it, just a bunch of boxes and a conveyor that spits out the bots. I reworked some of the deployment logic so that bots are physics objects before they get fully deployed. That way I can do stuff like drop them […]
Added particles and sounds for rockets, also added a laser point to the rocket bot. I made the rocket sound myself by doing a lame attempt to copy the image here (idk the context I straight up just googled “Rocket Sound Spectrum”) I did this by making some white noise generators in Abelton and filtering […]