As well as the character, vehicle and asset/level bits, i'm responsible for the games frontend stuffs - the HUD, menu, labels, icons etc etc, to basically give it a higher level of professionalism, and make it feel like "our" game.

I had a play about with scaleform, built 3 menu systems that didnt work [they just didnt want to communicate with the udk at all] but in the end, found out how they transfer data between each other, thus these ^.

99% of the code work, however, goes to Dann, for making blank buttons actually do things [i managed to get it to load up our level when you hit start, but im completely out of my depth with anything else. Learned a hell of a lot from watching him sort it out though] In the video hes linked the character/vehicle selection buttons to actually select them and save them, so when you choose start, the game loads with whichever character/vehicle you have selected, neat.

The bottom lil bit is what ive been doing this morning, I can't even begin to think when the last time I vectored something was, good fun anyway. Its a basic template for the manual, in-game display of controls, and a lil poster we'll print for the end of year show.

It's nice to see everything coming together, never thought i'd be as chilled out as I am now, still a fair bit to do, but we nailed a lot very early on, so now its just a case of polishing everything. Cant wait for the exhibition.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ48xOiYKxo&feature=channel_video_title

 

Set up a shiny render of Christ, [is sick everywhere] rendering an unfinished lowpoly characters in "HD" resolution just doesnt seem logical. Give me a month and i'd make a high poly scuplt, then render that.

^ This is non-sensical, ah well, has to be done apparently.

For our business module, we are required to build a website, here is mine
Tried making it fancy, covered from top to tip in grunge, then decided against it. This showcases my work, and nothing else. I don't think potential employers really care what font my name is in, or if a dancing brick introduces my work, so I went for a simple, clean, "here is my work, look at it" approach.

Its not fully functional, but I'm working on a photoshop work flow to format my work automatically and upload it in a blink, it should be easy enough, however, I'll worry about that when my work is "good" enough to display, it would be a completely pointless exercise spending hours rendering/formatting/coding stuff that is not going to be used. Measure twice, cut once etc

anyway here's the earl:

www.liamgrice.webs.com

I also doubt ill be purchasing a host name any time soon, ".webs" is hardly an annoyance to type up/add to contact information etc, so I'm relatively satisfied as of this moment.
Cheers

 

Some character progress, nothing exciting.... *is excited*

I found some free mo-caps, some were just bizzarre...^^

 from now on, these are my deformation tests, so full of win

Still a tiny issue here and there with the skinning, quite suprised it came out like it did to be honest o_o

 

Spent yesterday vomiting assets, here are the results. Made a flag, with dynamic cloth, a Vegas style arrow sign, the bulbs turn on and off intermittently, and a banner, the texture page holds five different banners, so all that is needed for a different one is to move the uv's down [as demonstrated at the bottom]
I think from now on I'll try to post everything I can in the game engine viewer, seems nicer that way, much better representation of what it's to look like.

Long time no blog blah blah, been too busy to even think about showing things to the internet.
Current stage, Vehicle and Character roughly 80/90% done, can have a chill and just polish now

Ill break down the progress of each:



Character, roughly 90% done, needs some nice spec/gloss/emissive maps on there, got hold of a good sss shader for the udk but it crashed, will sort it out later, and just general polishing of the diffuse, I need to try to get rid of the mirroring [where obvious]
Its all skinned [to a decent enough level] so its going to be easy enough to port over into the game, again, a little touch up of polish here and there.
EDIT: Credit for the bulk of the tats goes to Francois http://inkedspilled.wordpress.com/



Vehicle, roughly 85%ish done, sorted diffuse, for the most part. Its all "skinned", meaning the suspension etc reacts correctly in game. Same applies for this with a good polish and some decent spec maps. Got emissive working for headlights/brakes.
Sweet

Will upload in game Vids soon, screengrabs really arent doing it justice.
Cheers