Category Archives: Learning

I decided to take a step back from developing the whip combat weapon since that is gonna be the heart of the gameplay. I dove into some more Unreal videos and again like many of their videos they don’t do a good job of explaining what they are doing. They make it look very cool,ContinueContinue reading “Carrying the light”

Some of Unreal’s lectures are great, some of the older ones aren’t. They have videos of their livestreams and there are a few older ones that aren’t that informative. Their documentation is great but it’s not the easiest to follow. It is way better to learn from being shown how it works in the engine.ContinueContinue reading “Physics, physics, physics?”

I started the day going back to an old video about how to add new actions to the character, because the last time I did the tutorial I accidentally deleted a file that made me lose my progress halfway through. This time I was able to follow while adding it to my prototype, hopefully thisContinueContinue reading “Lights, Camera, and other stuff”

Today I learned all about materials in Unreal. Basically they do their best to imitate real world materials through textures and other fancy settings. It is up to the user to understand and manipulate these materials in the way they want. This will come in handy when I start bringing together the whole look ofContinueContinue reading “Lighting up the Lantern”

I went back to the donut tutorial and watched all the sculpting videos at 1.75 speed so I could remember all the useful shortcuts and tricks. If you’re interested in learning Blender I highly recommend this series because it goes over all the basics and high level stuff as well and is very easy toContinueContinue reading “From hat to toe”