Guess who now really loves ZBrush and it's Quicksave entries...

 We got Bugsy's texture back!

Damaged Hard Drive + Easter Targets

Okay so after the 2nd Viva I was preparing to back up my hard drive and it got knocked/pulled over.
So in short I can no longer access my hard drive with Jurassic Kart on it.
However! All is not lost, (somewhat) I have a back up, albeit probably a few months out of date.

I have managed to recover model files via temp autosave folders etc.
Textures have backups save Bugsy, his was non recoverable however it was a simple one and can easily be redone. The other new characters don't have textures yet.

Targets over Easter

• Major Project Report
• Character development video - Iguanodon, Parasaurolophus, Argintinosaurus, Therizinosaurus?
• Record stages; ZSphere, Sculpting, retopology, UV unwrap, polypaint + photoshop texture.
• Flag Girl Texture
• Bugsy Costume + Texture Done
• Ally Costume + Costume texture
• Carla Costume + Texture
• Roxy Costume + Texture
• Capt Morgan Costume + Texture
• Buttons Costume + Texture
• Raptor texture x 3
• Pterodactyl texture
• Promo character sheets
• Carlton
• Rex
• Big Al
• Carla
• Roxy
• Ally
• Capt Morgan
• Buttons
• Bugsy
• Flag Girl
• Spectators - Raptors, Pterodactyles, etc.
• Promo posters
• Carlton Costume
• Stilts - Wood, screws, wood glue, L/T brackets, metal supports, bungee cords, large PVC pipe (for front knee support), straps.
• Skeletal structure - PVC pipe, main body harness.
• Mesh/foam shape - Plastic mesh/ upholstry foam
• Cloth covering - Cotton
• Costume pieces - Cotton/ felt; Top Hat, Spats, Bow tie, Cuffs. See through mesh/material White shirt. Plastic/cardboard monocle.
• Details - Eyes, plastic/polystyrene. Teeth, foam. Tongue, foam.

Engine Update

Attempt 1: Find position along spline 

Attempt 2: checkpoint overlap

add actor to array

list of who is in what position

Skybox Fix

[animation and sound]

Good footsteps are remarkably hard to find as such I'm not really happy with the ones we have especially Rex i don't think it suits him at all. so these will be placeholders until i can find some better ones

Dead Trees, More detail to skybox, Trouble with Checker texture, Post Processing

Flag Girl, Pterodactyl and Raptor

Carla Carnotaurus

2016/03/7 Targets

Mike: Sound (Footsteps, Beach, Volcano, Saltflat) implementation, get falling animation to work, Reverse animation
Jenna: Flag Girl, Pterodactyls, [Raptors (small dinosaurs for the level)] sculpted and retops
Rhys: Game executable, Racer Position
Adam: Add sun to skybox and add detailed clouds to texture, fix checker texture for start/finish line [post processing]



Presentation

Fixing turn anims

Walkthrough:
You need to do a cast to the player to get the vehicle movement to get the is falling bool, is falling pawn won't work because a vehicle isn't a pawn (if it was the AI would be a lot easier)
In the character blueprint on steering input set a float value. This float will range from -1 to 1 by default so it's super easy to set up the blend space. Have left turn be -1 and right turn be 1 and it'll do the appropriate amount of turning whenever the player hits the thumbstick.

Feedback

Issues experienced with falling animation
Blend anim with controller not velocity
Character hop/jump (john feels that these characters should jump)
audio - install/use audacity
keep looking for HUD help
Hud cover basic first
Identify QA + bug hunt

Bug hunt - get people to spin the characters, run into every wall, run into dinosaur basically everything

QA - get people to play and see what could be improved or changed

THESE TWO MUST BE TWO SEPARATE GROUPS

High Priority (as in done two weeks from now)

-Game is an executable (if victory plugin causes problems either solve or get rid of it and find another way to do what you need says John)
-HUD must consist of the following Lap, Lap time and position (mini map is optional for now)
-Reverse needs to change from holding B to Left trigger
-Sound effects (team meeting to decide who should do that)
-The game absolutely needs to have an end

Adam - Jules says you've done something stupid with the textures for the checkers and he'll tell you more Monday. The clouds were in keeping with the style

Rhys- Jules needs to see a video of you going all the way round the track to be convinced that the checkpoint bug is fixed, also you need to move the last checkpoint closer to the finish line because the game finishes well a bit before the finish line. they were happy you got the menu to work with the controller

that's all i can remember but they'll probably go though it again monday

Game Testing Feedback

Skybox, Clouds, Grass, Start Finish. + Some Issues

Skybox + Clouds

Players level view of Island Planes

New GrassTexture

    Update to the start finish line. 

I have an issue when trying to add Opacity to the this texture below, because i have to paint it onto the landscape, the texture as to be within the landscape material in unreal. However, I am unable to add the opacity mask because it then adds it to the whole of the landscape, removing all of the textures.  I just need to find a way to add the Opacity mask to just that one texture but still have it incorporated within the landscape.

Also have this weird shadow across 1/3 of the skybox, Pretty sure it has something to do with the Skylight, but everything I tried to fix it didn't do anything, This is after I rebuilt my lighting, 

HUD - Minimap

John Alcatraz' Minimap asset on the market.

The asset contents in the tutorials engine.

 

 

 

 Unreal's UMG mini-map tutorial.

 Okayish Tutorial

 

Seems decent.