Admit One Development Blog

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Introduction

Hi there! In this blog I'll be posting updates on my game project Admit One. Admit One will be a Survival Horror Rogue-Lite that takes place in a twisted theme park, that you, a Visitor, must escape from. To avoid putting all my cards on the table right away, I think I'm going to be approaching this from a "under promise, over deliver" kind of direction. That said my wider goal is to produce an early playable version of the game by around this time next year. While I have a bit of head start on this, having been working on and off on the game for about a month, as well having (what I think is) a solid plan in place for how I would like the final game to be, it remains to be seen whether or not this goal is feasible. Which is kind of the point of this blog, to keep myself on track and to share progress on the game as it develops. We'll see where this all goes together! Thanks for checking out the blog and hopefully we'll all be able to pay the park a visit sooner than later.

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 141 - Ghoul Idle Animation

Another Ghoul animation for this week

For next week I'll make an attack animation and to get these set up in engine!

Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 140 - Ghoul Walking Animation

This week I've started making animations for a custom test enemy. A sort of ghoul/zombie-ish character

Pretty happy with how it turned out! I think I should be able to transfer this animation over to a proper enemy model for later in Unreal as well. Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 139 - Walking Animation Continued

Some more work on the walking animation this week. I think it's almost done, just need to polish the movement on the left arm and leg/foot and then get it into Unreal

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 138 - Walking Animation

Revisited the Player walking animation this week, I think it's an improvement from where it used to be but I still think it needs more work.

Nice to be doing some work that's not rigging related though! Think I'm gonna try to focus on getting a basic suite of animations together for a test enemy and try to get back to core gameplay stuff. Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 137 - Crossbow Sketch

This week I have some quick sketches of magazine fed styled crossbow. Would like to have wide variety of weapons from different times and settings.

Thanks for reading! Should be back to more digital stuff next week!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 136 - Creature Sketch

Due to travel, the next couple of updates will be some sketches, this week we have this Crow-man creature!

These will appear in a completely different area than all then Western stuff I've shown so far. It'll be a lot of fun when we get to these other zones! Thanks for reading, I'll catch ya next week!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 135 - Mouth Weight Painting

More work on weighting painting the head this week, this time focused on the character's mouth. It's not perfect but using various Point Constraints on the joints has allowed for much more natural movement of the faces and a big improvement from where it was before. Before:

After:

I'm a little concerned with how the constraints make the bones snap back into position if they've been moved around for customization, but I don't think that will be a problem in Unreal, something that I need to test soon. Until then, thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 134 - Still Weight Painting

Still working on weight painting the face, though it's getting to places that would allow for more wacky extremes which I think would be fun. More of this for next week or some test enemy animations I think!

Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 133 - Even More Weight Painting

Getting caught up in the weight painting tug of war. Really want to get this wrapped up and back to working on more direct gameplay stuff, gonna try to knock the rest of this out for next week!

Thanks for reading and for your patience on this part of development! lol

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 132 - Yet More Weight Painting

More work on doing the weights for the face when I have time. Would be fun to give player's this level of control over the head/features shape(s)!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 131 - More Eye Bones

Added some more bones to eye area of the face this week and did some more weight painting

Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 130 - More Face Bones and Position Tweaks

Added some more bones to the face (with more to come) as well as got some really helpful advice on repositioning the neck and jaw bones!

Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 129 - Face Deformation Examples and Weight Painting

A lot more weight painting on the face rig this week, enough to show some examples of what could be done to customize the Player's face by moving the bones around! Default:

Altered:

Side by Side:

That's it for this week, happy that this is starting to come together!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 128 - Even More Bones

Another small update of adding more bones to the face rig this week, going to try to wrap this stuff up for a while for next week. Maybe get some animating done!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 127 - More Bones

Did a little work adding more bones for face customization this week, I actually think I'm going to add even more bones before I think it's really safe to start weight painting this again without losing progress.

Thanks for reading!

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Admit One Dev Blog: Update 126 - Bone Organization

Small-ish update this week since it's mostly been weight painting and rig tweaks. Made some parent bones for parts of the face rig, definitely helps that area look less messy! Will need to add a lot more bones for animation and customization purposes. Before:

After:

Thanks for reading!