The Fortunate from the #CampFire
Many people have been spared from the #CampFire that has scorched Paradise in Northern California. But far more have lost everything.
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Waystation Echo DevLog #6: Animations and Items
When you first start out it seems like a lot of what you are doing is never going to pay off. Countless times I have sat in exhaustion wondering when I will see some progress on what I am doing; everything goes by so slowly when you are a solo indie developer, that when times …
How to get PNG transparency in your material
If you try to drop a texture containing transparency onto an object, the material that is automatically generated is going to be incorrect. The same thing will happen if you try to create the material from the texture yourself. The reason is because you have to customize the material to understand that it is supposed to account for transparency.
Passing an enum as a function parameter
I’m using Unreal Engine 4.20.2. Here’s how I am successfully passing an enum to a function for use in a TArray. In my Item.h file: UENUM(BlueprintType) //”BlueprintType” is essential to include namespace EInventoryItem { enum Item { Nothing UMETA(DisplayName = “Nothing”), Battery UMETA(DisplayName = “Battery”), Thing UMETA(DisplayName = “Thing”), AnotherThing UMETA(DisplayName = “Another Thing”), RedBadge …
Waystation Echo DevLog #5: Some bad video and animation updates
I tried using Open Broadcast Server to record a demo of how I am handling arm animations, and to show off a little bit of the look and feel (in alpha stage, of course) of Waystation Echo.
How to Import a Custom FBX Mesh and Skeleton from Blender into Unreal Engine
For Waystation Echo, I am using a custom armature based off of the UE4 mannequin. Since I want to practice making FPS arm animations, I decided to abandon any delivered stuff designed for the mannequin and make my own armature. Since this is a unique skeleton, I wanted to go over how I exported it …
I’m a Quarter Finalist at the 2018 Austin Film Festival!
My audio drama Blank Page made it to the quarter finals at the 2018 Austin Film Festival! So what does this mean for the show?
Waystation Echo Devlog #4: Big Decisions, Being a Solo Dev, learning Blender, and Biting Off More than I Can Chew
Buckle up! This one’s a big one. No more third-person TL;DR: Trying to do my own animations for a third-person game is ridiculous and one of the dumbest things I have ever done in game development. An old Gamasutra article caught my eye this morning. In it, the author discusses the differences in player immersion …
Waystation Echo Devlog #3: No really, Unreal
Waystation Echo was always going to be prototyped in Unity, but when it comes to actually building the game, I wanted to use Unreal. Now that the prototype is finished, I’ve grabbed a new copy of Unreal Engine and have been working this weekend on getting what I had in Unity up and running in …
Waystation Echo Devlog #2: Environment cleanup
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted anything about Waystation Echo, the third-person survival puzzle game I have been designing for about two years now. I started integrating ootii’s Interactable Core with my custom door and charge handling scripts to see if I could save some time designing these puzzle doors. Ootii is incredibly …
Unity vs Unreal Fees – When does it matter?
Game developers interested in Unity and Unreal will often ask about pricing. Both engines have paid tiers, with very specific caveats–and considerations for those of us interested in comparing the two from a price perspective. Unreal Engine requires you to pay 5% of your gross revenue beyond $3,000 per quarter. That means you can make …