FMP DeepuknownYouth

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Student Feed Back On My Game.

I got a student to right a 100 world review on my game to see what they thought.

(Student)-Cannons and crow nests has a very well made map as it is open and explorative but it keeps the player inside subconsciously. Its mechanics are also very interesting as it has a trajectory aiming system and it has a camera which swaps to the left and right when you aim to make shooting easier. The enemies are also well coded as they patrol around the open seas and once they have seen you they attack with their cannons. overall it is a very fun and unique gameplay experience with lots of well made and complex mechanic's.

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I Added Sound To My Game.

I added sound to my game I did this because I wanted my game to have its theme and feelings betrayed though out its sound. I only added three sounds to my game theses being background music to the game while you play to really convey to the player that they are a pirate battling in the Carbine sea.

I also added in a sound for when not only you but also the enemy fire a cannon ball. This tells the player when they have fired a shot but its also tells the player when they have been fired at by the enemies this means that the player has time to avoid and get out the way of enemy shots.

My game also now has a sound for when you blow up an enemy ship this tells the player that they have destroyed a ship which means they don't have to second gauss themselves but instead they know just from the sound effect alone.

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I Made An End Screen For My Game

I made an end screen for my game I did this the same way I made a start/main menu screen for my game. I placed a camera in simulation mode and then from there I took a screen shot and added to text telling the player they one. All I then needed to do was add a 5 second delay before the game would restart.

This screen triggers after you destroy all the other ships in the level. I think this end screen enhances the players experience because they know they have one and there for completed the level. This there for I think makes the game better and I personally feel it makes the game feel like its complete.

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I Added Trees To My Level.

I Added in three different variants of trees I did this because I noticed the map with only the islands looked a bit empty and life less. By adding trees I think this gives the world some much needed life. The trees also reflect where the location of the game that being the Carbine of course.

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I Added A Control Tutorial

I wanted the players to know what the controls were for the game when they load up the game so I thought I would simply place the into the main menu screen. This means the players will see the controls as soon as they load up the game which means it is easy for them to learn them.

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I Made A Title Screen/Main Menu

I wanted my game to have a title screen/main menu where you could see the game and be able to press a button to play it. This was very easy to make. All I had to do was play the game in test mode, take a screenshot, and then make a title for the game. I ended up going with 'Cannons And Crows' Nests' because I don't think it sounds too serious and quite obviously fits with the game's overall theme.

I used button's to make this main menu work. At one point I had an options button however I removed this. I also did have a quit button however this was also removed because when I show off my game do not wont people once they are done with the game to be able to quit the game altogether.

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My Plan For The Day

My game still needs to have cross hears for the ship it also needs to have enemy's that will pratol. I will then need to add in a title screen and start to think how to end the level.

The other thing I need to do is add to my blog and look for sound effects for my game.

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Making Ship Aim

"Above this writing is the starting code you will need to make your ship's cannons look up and down so when you fire your cannons, they will be able to aim up and down so you know where you're shooting. We do this by using arrows so we can see where the cannon is shooting from the start. The important thing here is that 'Add Actor Local Rotation' connects to 'Set World Rotation'. As this means that all the code that follows onwards will be able to actually connect the world and the location of the ship in the world. We will also want our ship's 'Projectiles' to connect to 'Select' and then connect to 'Set World Rotation'. As this means everything will once again connect to the world and how everything reacts will happen in the game's world.

Now that we have the arrows, we need to get them to aim up or down. So, we will need a 'Lerp' to adjust the angle between two points. The alpha of this 'Lerp' is controlled by the mouse Y axis. This basically means that we can just move the arrows up and down so that we can somewhat aim. We will need to connect the 'Cannon Alpha' to 'Lerp' and then to 'Set World Rotation'. We will then need to 'Get Look At', connect this to 'Aim Pin', which needs to be set to 1000, and get 'Cannon Alpha' and connect that to 'Add Pin'. This needs to be connected to 'Clamp Float', which we can then connect to 'Set'. This will be connected to 'Set World Rotation', which will find where the arrows are and where they will be looking in the world.

Now that we can aim up and down, we just need the game to know which side we, the player, want to aim with. This is quite simple to do. All we need to do is get 'Projectile spawn R Limit Down/L Down/R Up/L Down' and connect all of these to 'Get World Rotation' so that the game can locate where we are aiming at in the level. Connect these to 'Select' so that the game knows what cannon we want to use and where we want to aim. Then just add in 'using Left'. Then the game will lift up the aim when we ask it to.

The blue arrows show where the ship is aiming. You can now aim up or down and switch between two cameras that I have placed on either side of the pirate ship so that you can fire from both the right and the left side of the ship

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Todays Plan

The plan for today is to get a lot of my blog work done such as finishing off talking about how I coded things into my game and then after that I may even talk some more about why I added different things into my game and add some story to my game.

I need to do some coding on unreal engine in which ill need to code in my games sprint and my player ship and enemy ship sails I also need to add a tutorial and add in my enemy's patrolling

I achieved all my goals for the day as I did some of my blog work and I added to my unreal engine project. I will need to add more to my blog however.

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I made My player Ship Fire From Both Sides

I have already explained this code for my enemy ship but this code now means that my player character can fire from both the right and the left side of the ship.

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Making My Enemy Shoot The Player #2 (I Made My Enemy's Shoot on Both Sides)

This is how I made my enemy's cannons work from both the left and the right side of the ship. First you want to get a "Custom Event" and then you will want to call this "Fire cannon right" and then call the other one "Fire cannon left" We place two Custom Events down because there is 4 cannons on the right side and the left so now we need to do all the Coding for adding in theses other 4 Cannons.

The first thing we will then want to do is plug our custom event into a "Delay" then make this two seconds we need to do this so that after the enemy's fire there cannons once there will be a short delay so that if needed you will be able to move out the way of another attack or attack the enemy before they can fire back.

Then plug this into "For each loop" which will place the cannons into a loop which will let them non stop fire when they see the player in reach of there Cannons.

The next thing I needed to do was get my 4 Cannons projectiles and plug them into "Make Array" This will then confirm that the Canaan balls are projectiles that well kill the player character. You then need "Get world Transform" this will allow the enemy's to fire in the world.

Then to end this you will want to plug "For Each Loop" Get world Transform" and plug this into "Spawn actor Cannon" then plug self into this as well so the cannon only fire when they need to shoot the player with there own guns.

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I Made My Enemy's Fire On The Player (This Is How The Enemy Checks to See If The Player Is There)

This is how I made my enemy shoot my player ship. The first thing you will want to do is get a "Check Line of Sight Right" and "Check Line of Sight Left." You need to do this because there is a right side of cannons and a left side. By doing the same thing but on two different sides, it means that the enemy ship will actually check both the right and the left side of the cannons to see if the player actor is there or not. This will allow the cannons to then fire if they need to. This is how you then get them to check if the player is in the cannon's line of sight to shoot the player.

First off, you want to plug in all your cannonball projectiles into "Make Arrow" so that when they fire the "arrow," it will count as a projectile. So, when the enemy shoots the player, it will hit them and take health away. Then, what you will want to do is plug this into "For Each Loop." Once this is done, it means that the cannons will be able to all fire at the same time when they see the player. Then, "Get World Location." This will let the enemies find where the player is in the world. You will also want to plug in a "Get Forward Vector," which will let the enemy know where they are in the world. Plug this into "Add Pin" and set that to 1000, and join that to another "Aid Pin." Then, plug "Get World Location," "Aid Pin," and "For Each Loop" into "Time Trace By Channel." This will get your pirate ship's line trace to work and find where the player is. Then, connect this to "Cast To BP Third Person Character" and "Out Hit Hit Actor." This will mean that the enemy ship will be able to shoot and hit the player. Finally, connect that to "Fire Cannon Left/Right." This made my enemy able to look at and fire their cannons at the player.

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My Plan For The Day

I would like to first finish making my Cannons shoot in unreal engine.

I would like to talk on my blog about what I did in unreal engine to my AI my ship and other things I may also make some post about my game progress.

I would like to add a sprint to my game and I would also like to add a pick out to my game

I would like to add in my games sails and I would also like to make my player characters health work.

I would also like to make sure that my game has a tutorial and also have some background information.

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I Changed My Landscape colour

When I was making my game's level maps, I soon realized that the highly detailed map I was building would not fit into my game's overall look, so I needed to change the colors of my islands. As you can see from above this texts theses martials I used in the first place would look to realistic for my game. You can also probably see the code I had to do for my realistic games details was quit a lot.

These are my new colors, and as you can see, there is far less code. This is because all I had to do was make new colors, plug them into 'Landscape layer blend,' and then plug that into 'Landscape,' which will make your layers in your world turn to the colors you have just made. Then all you need to do is plug in a 'Value' that will stop your colors from looking too rough.

As I hope you can see this looks far softer on the eyes and looks much easier to look at. This makes my game look more appealing and also fits with my games art design. I think this over all was a good choice as my game now has a far more fitting art style and over all I think looks better.

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My Games Level Map

This is my game's level map. My game is set in the Caribbean, where you play as a pirate who has stolen gold from another group of pirates who have a much bigger crew than you. You are tasked with clearing out an area of the Caribbean so you can escape the pirates that are after you.

Now, because of all of that, I chose to make my level look like you are still around the islands of the Caribbean. This fits into the game's lore and the overall theme of the game and also makes sense. I made sure to fill the map up with many medium to large-sized islands to ensure the player has lots of cover to move around, hide around, or even shoot over if the player chooses to. The main island in the middle to the end back of the level was placed as a place of reference for the player if they need to know where they are, as the player, no matter where they are on the map, should be able to find the location of that island.

Making My Games Island (Proses)

Now, I did not just make my islands, but I actually had a small problem in deciding whether or not to make my islands look highly realistic. I started off having my main islands look highly realistic; however, I soon realized this would not fit my game's overall look or what I envisioned the game to look like to start with in the first place. I also then got my player ship out and realized how my game was not one of high realism but one with a more cartoonish look to it. Therefore, I chose to change my game's art and make it look less detailed, in which the game looked far better straight away, and my ship fit into my world's friendly look far more easily.

In the end I think the choice to change my game to less detail was a good idea as my player ship fits far better into my games world and over all style and my game looks far my friendly in this new art style as you can see by the picture above.

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My Plan For The Day.

Today I plan to fix up my unreal engine game problems such as my enemy's not firing getting my player to fire off both of the sides of the ship.

I would like to try and get my sails onto my ship and then talk about how I did all of this on my blog once this is done I will make sure to also check everything that needs to be in the game is all ready in the game.

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Evaluating Where My Game Is At

We are now back off from Holiday and now I will asses where I'm at for my game and what I will need to add into my game for it to be complete.

so far my game has a full level built a pliable character which can shoot cannons and change camorra angles to do so. I also have enemy's in my game that will chase the player and shoot the player if the player is in there line of fire.

I need to make sure to add in my games sails I may need to take out wind physics however I'm not sure yet. I need to polish up my enemy's and make sure they work as intended and I will try to get a end and title screen into my game.