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Moving Platforms

Moving Platforms are used in lots of different types of games mainly to get the player from place to place.

Games like Celeste and Mario use moving platforms to get you across the level.

You can use timelines in Unreal to make a moving platform as it makes the object move back and forth in a select amount of time. You can add curves to make the movement more smooth so the lift doesn't stop and start.

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Process of 3D animation

To 3D animate you'll have to start off with the concepts and storyboards. Next, you'll need to make the 3D models and texture, rig them etc. Then you'll need to animate and sort out the lighting and cameras after (cameras can include the angle, distance etc.) Then you'll need to render the animation and add the sounds.

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Real Time Animation

This video shows a good way to make characters in Unreal Engine 5. They make their animation in its rough patches, with clunky movement and poor lighting, but then they use MetaHuman to make really realistic human designs. They also use real time animation where they track real actor's facial expressions and movement to implement into the animation to really tidy the animation. I want to use this one day for my games.

I could use the sketches to plan my animation or character models in my next project.

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Unreal Animation

Unreal can be used to animate models quite well to give game designers an alternate method of modelling.

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3D animations

I like this 3D animation of Tintin as it manages to looks cartoon but realistic at the same time. I like the amount of expression its able to give the characters.

Team fortress 2 has nice stylised 3D animation. I like how varied the bodies are due to how its stylised.

Apex has really nice 3D animation to give the characters a very realistic design. I like how smooth the animations look with the animations they made.

Fortnite use 3D animations to allow the characters to look cartoony or unrealistic to fit the age rating. I like how varied each skin is due to how their characters have limitless ways to model them.

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Cultural Sounds

Some games use sounds that will suit the culture of the game. An example is Red Dead Redemption, which uses western tunes to fit the theme of the game. This helps players feel more immersed in the game.

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Sounds

To add a sound to unreal, I got a free sound off freesound and downloaded it. I opened the download and saved it from an MP3 to a .wav.

I then imported it into the content draw in unreal.

I then added Play sound 2D to my shoot code to make the sound play every time the gun shoots.

To play it at a location you drag the sound file into the world. You can adjust its volume and radius.

I've included a gun shot sound into my game that sounds slightly futuristic to give the impression the bullets aren't normal. I'm quite happy with the result.

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Cubic games

Crossy road is about endlessly getting across roads and rivers to be able to beat a highscore.

Minecraft is a game where you can either build your own endless world with no risk in creative, or survive with hunger and health and find the materials you need in survival.

Teardown is a voxel game about doing heists with the bonus of being able to destroy everything. It has a sandbox mode so you destroy things for fun.

Skies of the kingdom is a yet to be released voxel exploration game.

Fugl is a free roam voxel game where you get to endlessly fly as a bird.

Touryst is a voxel game about exploring and climbing different monuments with puzzles along the way.

Bonfire peaks is a puzzle game based around completing puzzles to gain items to move around the map.

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Voxelmade

I really like this image as the detail put into it is great and it looks really cool. I really like the glow of the fire and the transparency of the water aswell as the detail put into the underwater to give it bonus life.

I like this design too as the effort put in to sculpt the statue looks good, I think it could do with more colours though. I also don't like how the trees tilt but that doesn't really affect the main statue model.

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Sir Carma

I really like this voxel picture as he does a really good job with the lighting and makes sure the city looks nice.

I really like this design too due to the detail put in to the forest and waves. Though all the stone is the exact same colour I still feel it looks quite good.

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Voxel

A voxel is a three dimensional cube used in 3D games and are like a 3D version of a pixel.

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Boom Boxes

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UV mapping

UV mapping is where you lay out the object you made in Maya to a 2D plane. This is used to add texture to the object face by face and is an alternate way to add more difficult textures.

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Bouncepad and Teleporter

This is the code used to make a bouncepad in Unreal.

This is the code used to make a telelporter.

The new location is what you put in to choose where you go after using the teleporter.

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UV editing

This is a boombox I made on Maya using UV editing. I made a model on Maya and used photoshop to give it its looks using rectangles and the UV in the background to line it up.

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Grey Box Maze

To make the Grey Box maze you have to go to the selection tool in the top left and change it to modeling tool. Then you need to select CubeGr tool. This will allow you to add cubes to build your grey box.

Pull brings the cube up and push brings it down, so say the wall is too low you can push it, if its too high you can pull it.

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Quixel Bridge Megascans

Quixel is a place you can browse that was made by epic. It allows you to import textures and props for your games. It has tons of unique textures and plants/ foliage but I feel it lacks in other props. I used Quixel Bridge to add my grass and pork pie as well as a few other props.

I like using texture and model libraries as I feel it makes life a lot easier when it comes to texturing your many items. I wouldn't say it's cheating but its definitely a shortcut.