This week a looked at our levels as a whole and
decided to really go to town on the canal level as it looked and felt like the
level that was getting the least attention. To do so I got all the assets that Christy
had produced for this level and imported them and began to scatter them using
the foliage brush. The foliage brush was awkward and just sometimes didn’t work,
it gave good results in the end, it was a little dense in the field area so I may
have to go back and erase some of it if we get frame rate problems.
Example of Christys Foliage
The main issue I found was the ground texture, the texture I was provided with was a fantastic tillable but we needed a mud texture for it too to really sell it and get it looking realistic. So I asked Christy to work on this. This week was also the great merging of our forest and cave level in to one unreal file. Good god it was a mess, materials and textures all over the place and meshes in every other folder, it took a while to sort through and actually broke a couple textures, most are fixed by now though.
I managed to get the Alice concept down towards
the start of this week too, which means by the end of the week I could start
modelling and maybe start unwrapping too. This was a load of my back as I was beginning
to worry about the characters design as the group hadn’t seen a lot of my
design work. The mesh is quite high poly as I was thinking of maybe using Apex
cloth in Unreal engine 4.
This for me is a major stretch goal, if we are
struggling for time towards the end then this will be the first thing to be
cut. I also really hope to actually figure out how on earth hair alphas work in
unreal engine 4.
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