Week 2 – The animation of the Bear

Sorry for the late post of week 2, the post should be posted last friday.
During week 2 I have worked with the major animations of the Bear as well as starting with the rig of the next model, the wolf.
The major animations consist of walk, Run, Bite, Fish, Fight and Idle. Even if some of these was already started on when the week started I fixed the looping problems that the animation had.
 

Wolfweek

This week consisted almost entirely of wolf documentaries and wolf/canine anatomy.
The wolf was supposed to be based on Nordic gray wolves but had a lot of anatomical inspiration from dogs as wolf anatomy was surprisingly hard to come by. The only i could find was some digitally drawn pictures via a google search. It helped but some parts was not that clear so i stuck with the more professionally made dog anatomy.
With those prerequisites the model became pretty stale and […]

Wolfweek

This week consisted almost entirely of wolf documentaries and wolf/canine anatomy.
The wolf was supposed to be based on Nordic gray wolves but had a lot of anatomical inspiration from dogs as wolf anatomy was surprisingly hard to come by. The only i could find was some digitally drawn pictures via a google search. It helped but some parts was not that clear so i stuck with the more professionally made dog anatomy.
With those prerequisites the model became pretty stale and […]

Day 7

So, today my focus will be on continuing work with the NPC, and hopefully get most of the work done before I over to Stockholm for the easter. I’m currently pretty much the only programmer actively working with the Unity project, and I’m not overly happy about that.But I’m hopeful the other full-time programmer will be able to take over all of the item-related coding, so I don’t have to.
I have now finished up the patrolling of the Enemy, and […]

Day 6

Monday again! well, back to office hours after being sick on saturday and taking Sunday off.I’ve already made it so that there’s the option to create thin walls that block access between two specific tiles, without otherwise inhibiting movement using these tiles.
I am now working on the enemy, since the other full-time programmer that was supposed to do this went back to the mainland for Easter. Myself, I’m going on Thursday morning.Halfway through making a state framework for the NPC […]

Day 5

More work on the pathfinding today. There’s a lot to do, but hopefully it’ll be worth it in the end.
I’ve made it so that each Tile keeps track of its’ neighboring tiles. This will (probably) make it easier to do the rest of the pathfinding, as well as to create a better tile-to-tile movement system.
A basic pathfinding system is now complete! But apparently (unknown to me) the lead design had added the possibility of moving diagonally to the design. Though […]

Dag 4

Today the morning was spent creating proper project documentation.As a part of this, a physical SCRUM was created to create a easily accessible planning medium, in exchange for the digital ones under the jurisdiction of the producer alone.I got Yellow. So sneaky.

Next up I converted all the Lists previously used in the generation of the playing field to a two-dimensional array, making the Data more easily accessible in the code.
Following that, I made it possible to […]

The Bear

Day three.
Today consisted of getting the modeling stuff in motion starting with the avatar; The Bear.
The plan was to create only arms (as the game is supposed to be in first person) but after talking things through it was decided that we are going to use the whole body as I will model it anyway.
And on it went.
After several hours of trying to slim a previously made (but slightly to fat) bear model, I realized that the model would need […]

The Bear

Day three.
Today consisted of getting the modeling stuff in motion starting with the avatar; The Bear.
The plan was to create only arms (as the game is supposed to be in first person) but after talking things through it was decided that we are going to use the whole body as I will model it anyway.
And on it went.
After several hours of trying to slim a previously made (but slightly to fat) bear model, I realized that the model would need […]

Day 3

Today my main focus has been Pathfinding, and I’ve discovered that the A* algorithm might be suitable for our needs.
When I decided to run the code that had already been implemented, I rapidly noticed that the camera controls I created yesterday weren’t working, and I spent about half an hour debugging them to no avail,and when I was trying to debug it using the Debug.Log() function native to Unity it suddenly started working flawlessly again. I have no idea what […]

First!

Well then! First time blogging. First week on working with the team on BGP (Big Game Project).
As of now, most time has been spent on creating a structure for the project and defining the features we would like in the game. Most of my time that is. Tomorrow the modelling and sculpting begins and hopefully it’ll go smoothly and without problems. It never does though.

First!

Well then! First time blogging. First week on working with the team on BGP (Big Game Project).
As of now, most time has been spent on creating a structure for the project and defining the features we would like in the game. Most of my time that is. Tomorrow the modelling and sculpting begins and hopefully it’ll go smoothly and without problems. It never does though.