Sunday, March 17, 2013

Weekly Update 3/17/2013

We decided on a production team name, head in the clouds studio. mainly because we are all giants. like only 3 members of our team are below 6 foot. I did a mock up of a logo

We are working very hard to meet our deadline of April 19th. We decided on having April 19th as our deadline mainly because of  a competition being put on by ESA.
http://www.theesa.com/newsroom/release_detail.asp?releaseID=189
If we are judged to be one of the 5 best games, we get to present our game at E3.
If we are chosen it will mean major recognition by game studios and will make our name known




AI work done by our AI master Manny. He is still working getting this done in unrealscript. He is think converting this behavior into unrealscirpt will help us get the tarsier alarm behavior working using unrealscript.


HUD mock up 1

HUD mock up 2
Justine proposed 2 new hud concepts. after review and looking over the mock ups, we decided on HUD concept number 1. the only change is smaller icons.



justine overlayed her hud on a screen shot we took before.

 
 Miguel modified the monarchs voice to become more robotic. it came out very nice
new recording for the female voice of Alex. Miguel modifyed her voice. It is voiced by Emily Millman


B-roll sounds of squirrel screaming



Miguels main job at the moment is to make a theme song for our game. this is the first trial of it.



this is reference for Miguel for the theme of the game

Josh has written this as his reseach for the week:


I've been trying to add damage parameters to our pawn's melee attack using this tutorial: (http://www.mavrikgames.com/tutorials/melee-weapons/melee-weapon-tutorial-part-1). Early in the tutorial, the author introduced Archetypes. The quick description made Archetypes sound useful for the group's workflow because archetypes would allow the designers to quickly access -- and alter -- parameters for our pawn, bots, etc., from the editor. There's also the added benefit that we will not need to recompile the scripts after changing them -- which saves us a bunch of time to do other important things. So I decided to to research archetypes since it would help out the team in the long run, and to finish the tutorial for the damage parameters.

My research about archetypes started with Epic's documentation (:http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ArchetypesTechnicalGuide.html#Programmatically and http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/UsingArchetypes.html). These documents were helpful for making Archetypes for any object in the editor (camera, kactor, etc.) with the exception of the pawn. We want to reference the pawn's script by adding a function that can call on its properties via the archetype in the editor. I found a forum post that has the script to reference the Archetype: http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/841856-Solved-Using-Archetypes-in-script-is-it-possible, and I plan to try out it by Tuesday.




Dusty made this model of the Armadillo. This enemy will be implemented in the first level  and the rigs and animation will be a big part of how it plays




Steven modeled rigged animated and textured this model within the last week. it looks pretty good could do with some minor adjustments buts very impressive work.
Animation cycle for Alex. Her hair is rigged and all of sams animation work with her. animated by Steven

Emotion shots of the two of them in full gear. rendered by Steven
first enemy plus all of animations. modeled and textured by dusty. rigged and animated by Steven 

 HUB  World  Level Blockout

1st floor

2nd floor

3rd floor
The above are level layout for the hub level made by Murilo. we are need to populate  the environment as quickly as possible
Secret acorn platfrom










Trophy area
the above are screen shots of the level block out need to be replaced with reall objects agian by murilo
 Props





Holo Device


 props models and textured by murilo
Level 1 Concepts
  
Color scheme Reference



referenced from Lara Croft Gaurdain of life














Lincoln being the magician he is fixed a problem that has trouble us for weeks. he got a dynamic tail working

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