Introduction to Interactive 3D Environments Programming

http://www.ea.com/news/ea-and-disney-team-up-on-new-star-wars-games

Done before last class:

•      First to third person camera animation, PageUp (and vice versa, PageDown)
•      Movement controls, W, A, S, D, Space (forward, left, backward, right, jump)

Done for last class:

•      Added a “cone of focus” for NPC interaction. This cone is stuck to the player’s “face”, and when it hits an NPC, the NPC will look at you. When you type with the NPC’s attention, it knows you’re talking to it and responds accordingly. (Idea for later development: dynamically adjusting cone when screen space is crowded with NPCs)
•      Added a chat box for NPC interaction. I threw in an input that shows the text you’re typing on screen. When you hit enter, it appends your text to a chat box. Soon, NPC dialogue will also go into the box. Text is drawn as an overlay, so it doesn’t intersect with geometry in game. Needs a little more polishing, specifically a background for readability, a delay to disappear, and a line limit/scroll.

Here is a list of things that I was given by Gabby (who is a great leader btw) to do.

As of Friday the third of May, I have designed the world and am currently populating it with simple trees and bushes. I like many other found a simple tree and bushes that I can just reuse to create my forest.

I am also looking into creating the rail that will be used to set the path the player character will be following through the world.

On Thursday i continued working on the design document for the final project. I worked on trying to list the errors that we encountered in the project so far. This proved to be difficult  because we hadn’t found any solution to said errors and i didn’t just want to list errors. So i met with some team members and addressed issues that were brought up with our project during the class presentation. Specifically, the Faith gauge in our game and it’s exact functionality. We were able find a working solution and i was gladly able to include the problem and the solution in the design documentation. I was able to do this with other parts of the game as well, the faith gauge being an example. I was also to help others get sound effects for different parts of the game as well.

I have successfully been able to create the character, attach the gun to it, have the user be able to look around with the mouse, and be able to shoot and remove blocks (blocks are only used for for testing purposes).

Next step is to add a HUD (heads up display), which will contain information about the player’s health and his ammo. Hopefully, I can also add a muzzle flash animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHJ-zuuphM

This also work on Mac computers, however, it will export as a different file format. If you end up wanting to share your game with friends, make sure you have 2 copies of your game, one for Mac users and one for PC users.

Found this animation online that was apparently made in Blender.   This focuses on a boss fight in the game, Touhou 6 Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, so if you have a hard time understanding what’s going on, don’t worry.

Warning!

There are a lot of pretty pictures here.

http://youtu.be/y3536WfHgUM