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Built the general "house" , and placed a few of the items in the scene and added the environment (ambient) lighting (lights that are not attached to actual "physical" lights), and the actual (physical) lighting (ceiling and wall lights that have point and spot lights attached).

Might add more rooms as the story needs...

Essentially now I'm just making objects as needed, for example the ceiling light and the wall light as well as a window frame.

The floors and walls and such are made of primitive BSP (geometry) within the UE4 editor itself, as to save time and not having the hassle of scaling problems of exporting and importing from Maya.

Here are some textures that I have created, or gotten from CGTextures (royalty free, open source textures) or edited from default UE4 content. Made wood, concrete and 2 metal textures.

And played around with creating different materials by assigning them the textures mention above as well as different attributes to make them react differently to lighting.

Created a general (unlit) room, with "WORKING" (sliding) DOOR!!! Using the new blueprint system of UE4 with just a little bit of coding

Also created a global lighting system, to change time of day

As you can see the textures are applied to several surfaces now, which will be shown in the next post

This is the programming for the main "character" movements, although my project doesn't involve controlling a character, the "camera" will need to be controlled somehow.

The movement controls are based on First Person Shooter controls, with WASD as directional and mouse as the view controls. I have also implemented a jump control (from following a tutorial), but will probably take that out in the final version.

Another thought, I obviously and purposefully wanted to avoid any characters (including modeling, texturing, shading, rigging and animating them).

So I will have to create this story with just the key objects described in the story that I created, using only static environmental items.

Story

Heres the basic story line that I want to go with, which is tied to a current assignment that frames the story around 1 central adjective:

The man stumbles around in a dark room. He opens his mouth to speak but no utterances leaves his tongue. He then sees ghostly images of a woman, continually haunting him, but he cannot close his eyes, or rather…he doesn't want to? There is a sense of familiarity to this poltergeist, but he cannot grasp what that is.

He suddenly jerks awake, tearing his thoughts away from the reoccurring nightmare. It’s been 33 days now, but the dreams kept plaguing his mind, awake or not. He wipes away his intense cold sweat from his brows and gets up.

As he walks past his dresser he sees his late wife, who passed away due to some illness that both the doctors and professionals have yet to explain to him clearly. Or maybe it was his unwillingness to listen that every time he steps into the hospital, he ears start ringing and all sounds become muffled, along with a sinking, drowning sensation. His mother tell him to eat, to hangout more, but something is clouding his head, filling it full of undesirable thoughts, especially when he closes his eyes.

He somehow manages to get downstairs without losing his balance this time, which he was surprised by, because he had no recollection of ever moving after he woke up. He walks over to the kitchen and stands there, trying to remember why it is that he is there.

Oh that’s right, he needs to take his painkillers, because ever since that incident, he non-stop migraines have been intolerable. She kept all the meds in the kitchen pantry for some reason, but he’s too lazy to move it all into the bathroom, he convinces himself. He tries to forget all this as he grabs a cup of water.

Out of the reflection of the cup he sees a tired, completely drained man staring back at him. “What did he do to deserve all this”, he asked. Pushing that from his thoughts he forces the pill down with a large gulp.

He goes upstairs and finds the cleanest, least wrinkled shirt and pants he could find and gets dressed, as well as he could in these circumstances. He then goes to the mirror downstairs next to the garage. He looks straight into it and forces a smile, thinking, “c’mon, cheer up…for him”.

His car backs out of the driveway, leaving an empty house with a tear stained note on the kitchen counter, and the only legible words are “—— Age: 9 —— Oncology Department ——6:00AM ——”

He will not show sadness, because right now he is still needed by someone.

“I have to be strong.”

So this is the first batch of objects that I made in Maya. For most of these I will further smooth the objects to give them a more organic feel. The 3 chairs at the top are more or less finished

These took MUCH longer than I thought they would to incorporate them into the story that I wanted to.

The basic story will be posted on the next blog

The 3 3s

I am good at visual design, learning new materials fast, Autodesk Maya

I want to learn more about Maya, Unreal Engine 4 (C++), creating dynamic interactive narrative systems

I wish to make a 3D game, make a 3D animation, create a storytelling experience

So after I have solved most of the major bugs and errors (both Xcode internal errors and my own coding errors), and a week and half later, I have almost finished the coding part.

I have changed the particle system entirely, for both the player and the level generation. This way it won't bog down the entire device as it tries to render thousands of particles and its childCells.

Also the level generation has been put into an array and its height depends on the frequency converted into decibels averages into power per channel have now smoothly been implemented.

Collision have been calculated based on object movement speed and its CGRect bounds.

I have added start, win, lose conditions and screens, as well as score and lives.

This is pretty much the last and final version for the presentation.

And there are a few bugs that still needs working out:

- speed in which the music (level) generates to be faster

- speed at which the code processes the mic input level to be faster

- particle color seems off, not sure why at all

- end condition is forced by 3:00 of playtime instead of the player actually completing the specified song

And future improvements include:

- fine-tuning the level difficulty and its dynamic generation

- gravity on the particles, particularly the player character

- more responsive controls with the mic input

- need to learn more about how to control MPMediaPlayer playback states to generate ACTUAL win conditions

- being able to pick multiple songs that will fade into each other in the middle of each song to give an element of unpredictability in the gameplay

- overall aesthetic improvements, increasing difficulty by way of faster levels, and increasingly narrowing levels

- multiple players, possibly through bluetooth

Here's the media picker from AVFoundation working!

So right now I have the level generation reacting to the audio working while picking a song from the user's playlist, as well as using the mic to control the player "character" within a moving level. However, the catch is that they are not YET working together yet, only separately and not in the same project code because it is giving me yet ANOTHER SIGABRT error.

Also I have given up on using SpriteKit and began to use UIKit instead along with integrating Quartz.

The mic input somehow is NOT working right now in the actual app on the phone but is working within the Xcode Simulator.

And finally, the pitch detection also gives a SIGABRT error when integrated into the AHHahh (main) project code.

Found a very useful framework instead of spritekit to interact with in terms of visualizing audio, it is UIEffectDesigner and Quartz

Using this might help me avoid using spritekit altogether and therefore avoid the SIGABRT error

BIIGGGGG problem! Xcode is acting up because whenever I build my project I indicates that it succeeded as shown above. But then it crashes with a SIGABRT error, which is an internal Xcode error.

Not sure what to do...

Got it working

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