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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 […]
I swear the snare isn’t as prominent on my pc…. Added in ai perception logic (Also the hud is still crap and rockets fly through walls….) Right now I have the detection radius at like 1m so thats why I have to rub against the robot to get it standing up. This required some mods […]
Got some rockets made, they use UE5 projectile movement atm. I hit a couple funny bugs along the way: The final result turned out fine. There’s 1000 things I want to fix on this (explosion sounds/effects, better reload animations, better looking rocket in general, tune speed blah blah blah). But the framework of the idea […]
Gameplay isn’t done yet but I got some paint setup on the rocket launcher and the rocket. Threw a bunch of random phrases+numbers on it, still looks pretty cartoon-y (but so does everything atm). Next step is to get the firing + reload sequence setup.
Added a parameter to scale the grenade explosion radius so you kinda see where you’ll get hit: Its setup via user parameters and HLSL which I havent used in a while (I was fluent in the xna days, but that’s pushing 10+ years ago now) I might dig into this more just to get my […]
Added player grenades Pretty crude but I’m not going for quality atm, the detonations are very underwhelming, I can clean that up a bit later with a decent burn decal, a sphere effect to show radius and a bigger flash. I also really want to re-work that icon to be less…..bad? The changes to the […]
Added in a small fast stabbing bot that will charge at your feet. I think there’s some collision issues that I gotta get through (you can see me getting pushed back during the gameplay above). But I think I got the hook ups nice enough that it’s not really a huge issue. Animation is now […]
…I’m gonna quit on the physical hit reactions thing and just make a blendspace. There’s a hackyness to the ue5 physical animations which I seem to be stuck on and I do not want to spend much more time on it. I’m still happy I ported all of the animations to UE5, that pipeline is […]
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… […]