Was looking at some ways I might improve the character model and I started looking at metahumans, and then spent some hours figuring out a workflow how I can get the parts I want from it to improve realism, but get rid of the extraneous resources and complexity... what a rabbit hole. I started to think, "this is the…
Short update just since it has been awhile: I moved most of the major classes in the game to c++ so that it is easier to refactor into the future. I still prefer blueprints for speed but if you want to do something like move a bunch of delegates to a separate class it is a big problem to do that in blueprint. It took a…
edit: anybody has any critiques for these illustrations I'd love to hear them. "Finished" this illustration. There are a few bits of detailing I'll poke at here and there, like making some of the horses faces more distinct. Also moved the text to a separate layer so its more modular. I might settle on a different text logo…
After much playtesting I've developed an optimized way of playing the game. Now in this overhaul of character controller I am trying to make it so that it is as intuitive to play that way as possible. Previously I had an extra button for combat stance, which ducks and crawl / ducked run. And then another button for dive.…
@iam717 , i think i know what you mean. rather than just random leaping, they should be darting from cover to cover. once I get the environment further so that we have more stuff to to work as cover I'll see what I can do with code for that. i've done a little bit of experimentation with "smarter" enemy AI but what I found…
I've got two variants of the satyr blocked in. Keep in mind this is preproduction type of work - in addition to exploring basic theme and style for art, I am also developing the overall assembly line. I decided to add an additional satyr variant. I had a skirmisher and a charger, but I decided to add an archer as well.…
Okay last time I posted my next plan on the agenda was to start refining the level geometry. However, I realized that I didn't feel confident enough about some of the gameplay to be ready to commit to making art. The ranged vs ranged combat I felt was pretty solid, but fighting pure melee enemies left a bit to be desired.…
@Bolovorix thanks! @Fabi_G , thanks! I hadn't considered player placed traps, but I have sketched out some ideas for environmental traps. I was thinking that some enemies might not be possible to defeat directly with your firepower, but have to be lured. Regarding visual design, I took a look at Ashen and thats definitely…
@pxgeek I have not used mixer but using megascans in general would probably take care of a large portion of my environment texturing needs. The only issue is that it kind locks me into a realistic style which I'm not 100% sure it best approach yet. I mean, I know for sure that in terms of shape language and general layout…
A few updates: Was getting creative burnout from so much level blockout and trying to start with characters just wasn't happening. I did get together plenty of concepts and grabbed a few models that might be used for base meshes. Shifted gears to some more techy stuff. Working on a tool to export objects by name from maya…