ESCAPE - Gannon

Gannon

Starting a thread, Hopefully I can finish this. Getting ready to drive from Florida to Montreal with my wife and cats half way through this Challenge.

So Here's the game plan.

• Step one - Find the arts.
• Step two - Test the arts.
• Step three - ???
• Step four - Profit!

tehrobster2

Well good luck dude, your reference looks awesome so far .

mtthwcmpbll

Curious - is the bottom reference pic from Destiny as well? Very cool stuff collected here.

Gannon

Thanks guys,

No idea, I pretty much just took a trip down the rabbit hole and many links later gathered all the resources before you.

I'm RnD'ing at the moment on cameras in UDK. If anyone knows how to do a Fixed position camera that includes camera rotation or player tracking in UDK using Kismet I'd appreciate the tips. lol Coding in many forms is just beyond me unfortunately

DLoud

Cool stuff man!

I remember the jazz jackrabbit ios tutorial having some similiar camera stuff you may be able to modify. Hope it helps:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IxyZ_hj54"]Jazz Jackrabbit UDK iOS Tutorial Video - YouTube[/ame]

Gannon

Yeah, Top down I can do. I'm trying to achieve something similar to a security camera that will track movement of a player from a fixed location in the corner or something.

So far i've got this set up



but it doesn't actually follow the player. :-/ Noodling around with it a bit more to test some theories.

*edit*

Cut the kismet sequence down the the bare basic require nodes. I keep getting this error

"Obj UTPawn_88 has no handler for SeqAct_CameraLookAt_6"

To the googles!

*edit 2*

So more traveling down the rabbit hole has led me to this -

http://www.3dbuzz.com/forum/threads/162068

I'm going to try and import a model, convert to interp actor, hard attach the camera to the interp actor. and hopefully it will work?

McGreed

Maybe this thread can help:

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/750868-UDK-action-game-3rd-person-camera-code

Jeff Parrott

Looking forward to some awesome Gannon. Like the concept you have in place.

Gannon

Thanks Jeff, I've got lots of RnD to do before I get to the cool stuff though.

McGreed, Yeah - I came across this thread in my search. I don't want to mess with code and this is a fancy third person camera that follows the player, I need mine stationary. Something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=D5PdCuEEAlQ&NR=1


Kismet or bust!

McGreed

Well then, you might try this one out, which has that as an objective I believe.

http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/petebottomley/udk-kismet-introduction.php

And might find something here as well:

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/726604-Tutorial-How-to-use-udk-3rd-person-cam

shabba

I think you could try using a 'LookAt' group in the properties of your matinee for a camera, and can point it at the player.

So it will always point the actor of the group using a LookAt to another group you specify. Therefore you would want to create an empty group with no tracks that has a reference to a player variable. And the Camera group, through LookAt, is pointing to the blank player group.

I haven't done this in awhile, but I think its still functional.

Gannon

Shabba I could fucking kiss you right now. Walk through soon to come. The key part that I was missing was the "Look At Group Name" in the movement track properties.

Gannon

Haven't been able to set up a video capture session for the tutorial on how to set up the camera just yet but I promise it will come soon.

I've been working on some design exploration in the mean time. Trying to mix sci-fi with some very subtle art deco aspects.






I think I need to find some more reference but I'm thinking of exploring some old cruise liners instead?

Slowly chipping away at this. I want to make sure I get something that feels good and looks believably functional. Not just a bunch of noise.

RogelioD

can't wait to see your arts!

Mask_Salesman

Killer reference dude, lookin forward to see how you put it to use