{"id":986,"date":"2025-05-29T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:22:15","slug":"frightening-lamp-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Frightening Lamp Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got stuck on making the &#8220;boss&#8221; spawner thing so I decided to think more about what&#8217;s defending this boss area rather than the spawner itself. So I came up with this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-21.png 676w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-21-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-21-312x300.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is just kinda a stick with a gun ontop&#8230;.that being said I kinda dig it. I&#8217;m going to put some more time into this model and probably use a placeholder cube to get a simple level setup using the new game mode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly this might be one of the cleanest looking things I&#8217;ve ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-22.png 540w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-22-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-22-358x300.png 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing I did this time around when modeling was to break apart models when I didn&#8217;t like the way the smoothing looked, not sure how that will translate to UE5 but I&#8217;m happy with the flat shading of this guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From a gameplay perspective I think I&#8217;ll have this thing shoot plasma or something that way I don&#8217;t have to have a loader mechanism for rockets (which I want to say is a pet peeve of mine but <a href=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=716\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/?p=716\">this<\/a>). Which is why there&#8217;s little wires above the two tubes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-23.png 564w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-23-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-23-500x256.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the rear side looks like some kinda battery pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24.png 596w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24-500x212.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also bots man:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-25.png 433w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-25-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/willkolb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-25-326x300.png 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got stuck on making the &#8220;boss&#8221; spawner thing so I decided to think more about what&#8217;s defending this boss area rather than the spawner itself. So I came up with this: Which is just kinda a stick with a gun ontop&#8230;.that being said I kinda dig it. I&#8217;m going to put some more time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-gamedev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willkolb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}