Author Archives: goldengratus

I finished off the dodge mechanic, or at least polished it. The lantern currently works as a signal to show whether or not you can dodge. It turns red. As of the moment I might keep this as a mechanic for the dodging. I know I don’t want to add a stamina system as itContinueContinue reading “With great power comes great complexity”

No actual rolling or bowling. I did consider rolling as that was my goal for today, to implement a dodge action. I explored many ways to do this and the best way was root motion. It works differently than normal animation because it moves the character based on the motion itself, instead of having valuesContinueContinue reading “Rolling and Bowling”

Finished up the foot so that it adjusts to the slope of the ground. It disappears into the ground sometimes and I was worried about that. I spent awhile tweaking some of the values to find the perfect setting where it would always work. I couldn’t seem to find the magic numbers. My net wasContinueContinue reading “Exploring New Angles”

Before I moved on to more game mechanics I wanted to really refine the character animation. There’s so much I still haven’t done, and so much that I am still learning. I want the character to feel dynamic and alive, while the model is simple I want it to be fluid and react to theContinueContinue reading “There’s a lot in the feet”

Unreal has a few quick tutorials that show off some random features from the engine. I spent the early parts of my day watching a few of these to get some inspiration while thinking about that my next step was. I knew that I wanted to fix to fix the whip, because previously the wouldContinueContinue reading “From learnings to form”

I spent another day trying to make the best model I could. The problem with the earlier versions I made were that the parts didn’t blend into each other, so it was hard to add clothes that weren’t blocky as well. There were more tutorials I found that helped me create a custom base mesh,ContinueContinue reading “How does Pixar do it?”

As I had planned I started to learn how to create my own custom mesh from scratch. I jumped back and forth between a few videos, and I couldn’t find any that matched my needs fully. I grabbed a few tidbits here and there and began to try it with my own hand, and seeContinueContinue reading “Modeling is something else”

A fun third person character has signature moves, that have clear actions. Mario can do so many things with only his jump, and there are layers beyond that with how you can manipulate his actions. I want to follow Nintendo’s design philosophy when it comes to creating the player character. I removed the ability toContinueContinue reading “Tweaks, fixes, and other small things”

Thanks to the channel of codelikeme I was able to find some useful tutorials on pushing and pulling objects. It was originally made to act like the Force from a Star Wars game (Fallen Order), but I was able to change it to work for my game. The pushing works fine, at first it actuallyContinueContinue reading “Pushing and pulling”