The Lost Piloteer: 2012

Friday, 21 December 2012

2 different type of rock we should be looking at for the beach area,

Limestone:

And sandstone:

Different types of archways from limestone and sandstone.

Thursday, 20 December 2012

High Quality - Low polygon assests

In your 2D textures within hypershade, use your normal maps as "Tangent Space Normals" instead of bump, it will keep most of your rendered high poly model details.

Although there is a couple of problems with UDK it doesn't seem to like the normal maps very much (maybe because i didn't unwrap my UV's). Although it will look better with a correct texture as it keeps most of it's detail.

Rock brushes: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/451459

Pretty good techniques for rocks alone: http://vimeo.com/6332832

Saturday, 8 December 2012

ahhhh

after weighting

before weighting

Friday, 7 December 2012

Landscape

Videos of latest mechanics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgm0rtAs4E&feature=youtu.be

Static moving cams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSmmQwi6OiU&feature=youtu.be

Level Loading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwOWD0DMPE&feature=youtu.be

More added cameras to temple

character animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBATPHtyLAY&feature=youtu.be

character rig and weights

the original proportions of the model are back now ive learnt to move the rig correctly

controls were added and moved around before it was weighted to get an idea of how it looks

weighted to some extent

weighted poses

comparison between weighted and none-weighted

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Videos

Pictures

Code used

class AIRandom2 extends GameAIController;

//declaring variables here means
//they may be used throughout this script
var Vector MyTarget;

//at the start of the level
simulated event PostBeginPlay()
{
   super.PostBeginPlay();

   //start the brain going at half second intervals
   SetTimer(0.5, true, 'BrainTimer');
}

function BrainTimer()
{
//local variables are only used in this function
local Pawn P;
local float Distance;

//check if theres another pawn, the pawn belongning to this controller isnt counted
foreach WorldInfo.AllPawns(class'Pawn', P)
   {
          if (P != None) //if there is one
          {

            //get the distance
            Distance = VSize2D(Pawn.Location - P.Location);

              //if its closer than 500
            if (Distance <= 500)
            {
             //make its location MyTarget
             MyTarget = P.Location;
             //so it doesnt fly up n down
             MyTarget.Z = P.Location.Z;
             //MoveTo the pawn
             GoToState('MoveAbout');
            }
            else //if its too far away
            {
            //do whats in the function called MoveRandom()
            MoveRandom();
            }

          }
          else //if there isnt another pawn
          {
            //call the function MoveRandom()
            MoveRandom();
          }
        }
}

function MoveRandom()
{
local int OffsetX;
local int OffsetY;

//make a random number
OffsetX = Rand(500)-Rand(500);
OffsetY = Rand(500)-Rand(500);

       //some distance left or right and some distance in front or behind
    MyTarget.X = Pawn.Location.X + OffsetX;
    MyTarget.Y = Pawn.Location.Y + OffsetY;
       //so it doesnt fly up n down
       MyTarget.Z = Pawn.Location.Z;

    //move to the random location
    GoToState('MoveAbout');
}

state MoveAbout
{
Begin:
    //MoveTo makes it move to a location (vector)
    MoveTo(MyTarget);
}

defaultproperties
{

}