Jul 5, 2017
Worked on the particle effects leading to the Which Witch’s appearance - purchased some cartoon FX effects from the marketplace and then inserted these in: a cloud, lightning and puffs of smoke. All rather dramatic. :)
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Worked on the particle effects leading to the Which Witch’s appearance - purchased some cartoon FX effects from the marketplace and then inserted these in: a cloud, lightning and puffs of smoke. All rather dramatic. :)
Working on the audio today, and most of it was very straightforward - as yesterday I had combed through the ProAssets I wanted for the game and converted the remaining audacity recordings from my colleagues into .wav files - so it was a case of simply upload and create sound cues.
So I then created several sound variables and attached these on to the character BP - so that I can change them each from the world outliner, according to the player type.
But, as is now considered inevitable, not all goes to plan...
Along came the dreaded footsteps. A few too many hours were sunk into numerous attempts to spawn sound in, with all the variant possibilities on that, and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t - even though I could see the red line of energy flowing through it. Also, being able to turn this off when the player is stuck waiting to answer a question proved just near enough to sacrifice all patience.
However, Google, or rather I should actually credit Unreal community posting’s, came to the rescue, yet again, teaching me what to do... so next I re-added the footsteps as an audio component instead as a variable sound cue. That way I could gain access to it, create an event to set it to play, and then earn the functionality to turn it back off when the player is in a stop event.
Yeehaw. Getting there. 7 days left before hand-in.
After a ridiculously busy week - and weekend training in York, I tried to get started on Pepe yesterday and this morning. I went for using the rig I had used with Erol, but as you can see here his shape deforms. So, it looks like I will have to use a completely new one. I really need to chat to Jonny about all this, but fear he won’t be in tonight!
Update: 04/07/2017: so this happened.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
And here’s Erol, the Eraser. Went fairly smoothly. One more to go!
Hua, the Highlighter.
Went back to the drawing board and re-did her. Only 2 more to go .... and the new WhichWitches (which I will leave until nearer the deadline due the more urgent issues!).
In my struggle to find a quicker way of working, basically creating a half mesh that I could use for the highlighter, eraser and sharpener (because they all have square-ish heads) I find myself now with a bit of a mess.
The quandary is, proceed with Hua...or go back to the start?
I am worried about time, and can’t really figure out which way would be the fastest way to recoup from this morning’s disasters!
Pepe is coming along - he was a lot faster to do!
Character design
Worked on some very rough sketches for my game characters.
Meet:
Pepe, the pencil
Penny, the pen
Erol, the eraser
&
Hua, the highlighter.