Category Archives: Game Development

Watched a short tutorial on interior lighting and I understand why my level is a bit dark. Lights don’t work the way you think they do especially because it tries to lesson how light bounces in the engine to reduce costs which is a good thing. Building/baking/rendering the lights takes awhile so much of myContinueContinue reading “Lighting is hard”

Thanks to another Zak Parrish lecture I learned how to more efficiently optimize the game. Other tutorials weren’t straight forward or basic for my simple mind. I learned how expensive lights were and I learned how expensive fog was. Expensive in terms of cost of performance on the GPU. Basically I learned how to useContinueContinue reading “Cuttings costs”

Accomplished quite a bit today. Started of as intended watching a few videos on how to optimize the game. Learned a few new things such as commands to see how certain parts of the game are running. It also mentioned again that I shouldn’t use Tick events if I didn’t have to. I couldn’t figureContinueContinue reading “Locked and loaded”

It had been bothering for awhile that I had two timelines set up for the camera effects, I only really needed one the more I thought about it. I just had to add another key value to the first timeline and adjust the time. Once I did that I tried to find some tutorials onContinueContinue reading “Effects galore”

I’ve learned a lot about cameras today, at least in Unreal. It has made the game more dynamic and visually interesting. I added some camera lag, but not too much. Enough that sometimes the camera has to catch up with the player to give a sense of speed and thrill. I was able to learnContinueContinue reading “Camera functions”

Started off with minor changes such as adding sound effects to certain objects that can be interacted with. Then I updated the logic of the UI so that it will be easily usable for future levels and bosses. With more experience I know to make sure that everything I add or implement is efficient andContinueContinue reading “Long-term planning”

As far as the level development is going I didn’t make any gigantic updates today. I did make important ones though. I have known that each room is assigned to a professor, and the item to be discovered inside has something to do with their specialty. So I added a small name plate just outsideContinueContinue reading “Fonts and Fixtures”