GOLF - DinoPutt
polycounter lvl 5
Hello everyone! Even though I may be a bit late starting into this contest, I wanted to give it a go, especially since this will be my first one! 
For the concept I am going with a dinosaur theme, surrounded by rocks and a waterfall. There will be two main paths for the player to try. A higher risk, where the player can try to take the ball up the back of a sleeping stegosaurus into a hidden side hole where a pipe leads down to the final hole, or a low risk where the player can go to the side of the stegosaurus, across a bridge with a pack of small dinosaurs and around some nests to the final hole.
Here's the concept I created for the hole:
I should hopefully have a pretty good blockout done by the end of the day!
For the concept I am going with a dinosaur theme, surrounded by rocks and a waterfall. There will be two main paths for the player to try. A higher risk, where the player can try to take the ball up the back of a sleeping stegosaurus into a hidden side hole where a pipe leads down to the final hole, or a low risk where the player can go to the side of the stegosaurus, across a bridge with a pack of small dinosaurs and around some nests to the final hole.
Here's the concept I created for the hole:
I should hopefully have a pretty good blockout done by the end of the day!
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Almost done with the concept blockout, need to finish up the Stegosaurus and put him in the empty space at the top. It looks like I might need to widen the course a bit as well, but I'll have to wait until I can get it in to the engine to see.
As for the level, I am thinking about adding a small platform for the small dinos to stand on so that the ball will have more to bounce off of. I am also thinking to make the hole up top behind where the stegosaurus will go be higher, so that you can't get the ball over there unless you go really far out of your way or do it the right way.
More to come tomorrow!
As for my update today I think I am pretty much done with the blockout. I changed the bases on the small dinos so that it ends up being more like a plinko board for the ball to bounce on, and added some egg obstacles near the end. Also got it in to engine for a basic test and it works! Still have to test out going up and over the stegosaurus though
Now time to start working on some textures!
You may want to consider adding an additional collision mesh for the path the ball will follow on the Stegosaurus, like in the shape of a bent U to avoid problems with the ball hitting the corner of his spikes.
Best of luck!
And Tobbo, yea I am definitely going to add something along the sides of the stegosaurus' back, it would be so disappointing to get half way up and fall off!
So for today I have a small/medium update. I have still been working on getting the course working how I want it before working on textures, and at this point I think I'm almost done. I chose to add another obstacle near the bottom of the course! Now before you can reach the hole you must face the dreaded chomping liopleurodon!
Notice near the pivot point you can see where his neck sticks out a bit..I'm going for that dilapidated actual built type of creature, so his bite kind of bounces at the end since he's not as new as he use to be.
Getting stuff working well in the engine though, just need to reverse engineer the water particles in the advanced course example to figure out how to do the waterfall!
The shadows are looking a little jagged at the moment, not exactly sure of the cause. I tried using both AUTO lightmaps and bringing in my own UVs as well. The Lightmap PageID is set to -1 as well. If anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it!
Okay, so I took this back into Maya and with the extended deadline have slightly expanded it to be wider and more vertical. It doesnt seem as cramped now, and I have made an actual land bridge for the grass which helps make it seem more natural. Hopefully you will be able to see the waterfall better from the bottom of the course. The stego and leo are both larger in scale as well. The animation is still working for the leo to bite the ball, and hopefully I will be able to implement some blinking dino eyes in both of the larger ones!
Looks like now I mainly just need to focus on my textures like crazy. The grass, rocks and stego are allmost at a finished point, but everything else needs some love! And don't worry about the lighting, since these are just screenshots from maya.
Excited to finish this up!
Total Tri Count: 22,453
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