I am working on an experimental game project called 'The Void' with Leon Field. https://ldmfield.weebly.com So I am using this project as an opportunity to push my tech art skills.
I will be showing a lot more of what I am working on soon, but for now here is a GIF showing a portal effect for the The Void I have been working on in UE made with particles, fancy material stuff, blueprints and skeletal meshes. I will be providing a proper breakdown of how I made this effect on this blog on a later date.
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| Portal Materialization effect - Uses a blueprint timeline to control how the meshes expand, how the post process material animates, when the particles activate, and when skeletal meshes start playing their animations. |
I'm also currently working on some procedural generation script for the same project, this is a bit more advanced and will take more time but I see if I can post more updates for that too. In this project I have been experimenting with a bit of C++ as well as blueprint so I can read text files that contain layout information for each room before I start placing each one procedurally.
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| Super early procedural generation script (This has developed a lot since making this GIF) |
I plan on writing larger blog posts about each of the things I am working on above so I can link them to my portfolio site, this will take a bit more planning as I actually want to breakdown each little project in a lot of detail to (hopefully) explain how I've done things. So bear with me!
However, f you want to see things as I'm working on them though I tend to post on Twitter more frequently, so check out my page there: https://twitter.com/JamesMBroderick
See you soon!
-James
