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Went around and completed several things today. Finished the last of the series from Unreal on animation. Not a lot of useful stuff near the end, more of reiterations or techniques that are very specific to certain animations or models. I edited the attacks to give more forward motion to the character using variable curves,ContinueContinue reading “Squashing bugs and adding stuffs”

Nearly done with one of the animation series from Unreal engine. But they still have some other videos on extra tips that I will look into when I feel I need to no more. I spent tons of time fiddling with the values of the animation transition of the new movements I added, move startContinueContinue reading “Improved locomotion”

Learned a lot more today, particularly about very useful animation tricks such as setting events for leaving and/or entering a state. I also learned about sync markers that I can attach to animations so for certain animations such as walking or running you can set when the left or right foot are down so itContinueContinue reading “Small steps”

In these past few months I have become quite intimate (yes, intimate) with Unreal Engine. It has gotten to the point then while watching some training videos from their YouTube channel I can identify where the trainers are getting things wrong, or when they are missing certain parts. Of course many of the people teachingContinueContinue reading “A deeper dive”

I began by refining more of the animation, the 360 movement when strafing. Lots and lots of new animations, going all the ways from diagonal back to front. I simplified the jumping animation by only using two different ones now, but there’s a run animation if you jump while moving. The animation state machine isContinueContinue reading “Kicking and jumpin’”

First off I couldn’t sleep and stayed up because I couldn’t stop thinking about the animation issues I had. So, work started early today. I didn’t get far, but I knew what I wanted to accomplish from the moment I woke up. There was a problem with the direction calculation jumping back and forth betweenContinueContinue reading “Animating is math”

Watched a lot of stuff today. A video on game optimization, which I need to always keep in mind so that I have the best performance no matter what console I launch to. I am not an expert on textures or materials so I was afraid some of the objects I had were taking upContinueContinue reading “A return to animation”

Incredibly powerful lesson I learned today about widgets. A widget is a way to display text or images to the player’s screen. I needed to learn this so I could have a better way of communicating the target to the player in terms of lock-on and later on for the swing/grapple points. I made aContinueContinue reading “Working with widgets”

There were many tutorials regarding how to implement a lock-on system. Since so many games have their own way of handling it, there are definitely many ways to do it. I watched a few and found the one that seemed the most straight forward. With it being relatively basic compared to the others I couldContinueContinue reading “A step towards new heights”