BGP – Day 32

16 hours
During this day I spent 16 hours at the office trying to get everything into the engine also wanting to work when everyone wasn’t in the office. This is because we can’t add everything to our main level without the risk of destroying the project if what we add is conflicting with each other. This mean that only one can work in the main level at one time. Or we need to be very clear with what we are […]

Island Environment – week 4

For this week i was working on the Island Environment. The good thing is that it is pretty easy to work with that in unreal engine. All the assets that you can see in the screenshot are free and are availible on the internet. With the foilage tool the developer can add a lot of enviroment assets at once. I did not needed to handpick everything and place it inside of the engine.

Ocean Waves- week 3

Hi,
today iam going to talk about how i was adding the ocean to our project The Wreck deck. I was working on the ocean when i reallized that we wanted to have ocean where things can float on. There are a lot of ways you could approuch this assignment. I startet researching some turtorials on youtube and on the internet.
I found a good one which could help me with my work i will add it in the end of this post. The gerstner […]

Sound of Life Blog #2

Hello, and welcome back to my second blog!
Today I will be talking about Material Instancing, and how I utilized this method in order to make variations of our textures.

 
But what is Material instancing?
Material instancing is when you take a single parent material, and you make copies of it (instance/child) that have variations to it. Let’s say that we have a simple/basic wood material as a parent material, then with that, we can create specific variation to it, such as oak or […]

5SD037-Big game Project week 2

Hi,
my name is Gabriel Stoffel and i am the producer and lead tech of our current project named The wreck Deck. In the Wreck Deck two captains given the same copy of a treasure map find each other crossing paths and the only way to solve who gets to keep the “booty” (aka. Treasure) is to fight it out on the sea. Wreck Deck allows players to fight out their wildest pirate dreams and battle each other out on the […]

BGP: Refracted Fate – Redesigning Map Layout

Hello everyone, this week I will be talking about redesigning layout, as it’s what I have mostly been doing since the last update. (and other small fixes here and there).
Redesigning map layout
The redesign on the map mostly came from the player data we gathered earlier, it was originally done to create a better flow true the game, however, after also detecting we would likely not be able to finish the last room, we decided to polish the first room and […]

Neon Skies – Week 7

This week was chaotic as some were sick and others couldn’t work, as such, much of the work was done remotely.

Destroyed mining drone

After a suggestion on how we should deal with neon, we’ve started to make many of the things with white emissive material that we later change in Unity.
The above image is of the destroyed version of the miner, we want to explode the drone outwards and for there to be alloy like pieces of it that you can […]

Fast Gear – Week 7

In order to move the AI they have a force applied to their rigidbodies in the z-axis that pushes them forward. We use a property of the rigidbody called drag, which is how much air resistance the car will have when forces are applied to them. It is a scale from 0 to infinity where 0 is no resistance at all and infinity makes them unable to move. We are using drag to make the cars stick to the road […]

DynaMine

You are a thief rushing through a mine shaft, tossing and detonating dynamite sticks to fill up your cart with gold. Yet the night is short, hurry up and collect as much gold as possible before sunrise. Timing is crucial! If you detonate the dynamite too early, you fill your cart with worthless stones, but wait too long and you lose your earnings. Perfect timed explosions results in a “Gold Rush” state, which increases the score multiplier and the pace […]

Week 7, Highlights and thoughts

Hello again everyone!
Week 7 has been a a stressful blast.
Our main goal this week was to polish up our environment to a standard that we were happy with as we needed to provide  screenshots.
The work this week has been in form of different kind of in-game object that are usually refered to as props. However, today i want to dive more into the technical side of the creation.
To be able to fill the world with different assets, reusing parts is […]