Claude along the watchtower
Uhhhgggg, I know this is a better approach because its more WYSIWYG in unreal and I’ll be doing less messing around but it’s definitely re-doing work. I have to keep believing that physical hit reactions and IK will be worth it. Walking is still the hardest IMO, everything after that should be easy as pie […]
Took the bot body and made IK in unreal. Turns out the big tower of blueprint blocks I was talking about is 100% what you’re supposed to do (meaning I see it replicated in every tutorial I see). Right after making the last picture I deleted 100% of my work for the last 3 hours… […]
I kept looking at the last video I posted and got really annoyed at how bad the animations of the patrol bot looked. This drove me to remake the animation rig for the patrol bot (to be much, much simpler) and I started making a control rig in unreal to push the animations there (see […]
I’ve been playing too much xcom and I felt like my c++ skills were waning so I thought it would be a fun quick project to quickly spin up a turn based squad commander system. The camera First thing that is distinctive about xcom is that it’s an isometric game, therefore the camera is fixed […]
(Writing as I’m doing this fyi) I wanted to re-write the leaning in the game. Right now the movement is all very snap, which has some skewing to it but i wanted a more gradual lean in. (Normally I would use https://blueprintue.com, but wordpress is weird about iframes) Now you can see here the process […]
Spent a bunch (like 1-2ish hours) of time trying to get the chaos physics working with the tree and… It kinda works but the issue comes into the in game interaction. The damage levels seem to be weirdly arbitrary and aren’t assigned to a root bone but the pieces themselves Also the definition of “damage” […]
Recording myself modeling another tree. Then I realized I probably shouldn’t be posting videos with copyrighted music, so I made a song to go along with the tree recording (I used some of the pre-canned abelton clips for bass and vocals which feels like cheating but I wanted something kinda alright and fast, the drums […]
I made a better tree, not perfect (it still has the weird branch in the upper left) but its more passable than the other tree I made. I also found in unreal the “Foliage” system ( see https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/procedural-foliage-tool-in-unreal-engine ) which is the opposite of the “Landscape” system used for grass. Essentially it lets you spawn […]
Jumped back into unreal but I’m heavily procrastinating the game parts so I started messing with some of the environment tools in unreal. Specifically I’ve been poking at the grass setup tools (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/grass-quick-start-in-unreal-engine). Not too complicated essentially, your environment drives a few inputs and outputs in your landscape material. So I whipped up a quick […]
I have a few cassettes of older music that I wanna sample and put into something in Abelton. Why use cassettes? They’re cheap as hell, this one was $4 from my local record store. I also made this guy: Simple enough, getting it in game went smoothly. I don’t think I want to make this […]