Reflection 10

This week in game design I have been working on adding in textures for areas of my game and have been learning how to add in decals.

For my environment I have been wanting to make it more towards the theme I have chosen (post apocalyptic) in doing this I need to add in things to make the environment more messy and abandoned by adding things like vines, spider webs and patches of dirt around the place to make it seem like time has worn it down better. I started by doing this by making a spiders web, I did this looking up a tutorial which showed me the steps of how to do this and even add an animation to make it look like the wind was moving it.

I got the material in unreal made and I got an image which I liked,  I added in a material expression constant which I added to the metallic and roughness values of the material, this took away any shine or glossiness too the material and in learning this I did this to the rest of the materials to make it look more gloomy looking. I then added in a material expression constant to put on the UVS for texture sample and opacity mask so that the black background part of the material would be taken out. Last of all I added in the animation of  a simple grass wind animation to go onto the world position offset and added expression values to all the variables to of the animation of things like the wind intensity.

Once this had been done I placed it onto a plane which I exported and then began to duplicate it around my environment.

Last of all i added in a few textures to my environment for my basement and my glass bottle. I was a bit confused and unsure of how to make a glass texture considering its see through but fortunately as I was told I could just use the assets in unreal as there was a glass one there. For my basement walls, floor and ceiling i did not need anything special for my textures on them so I simply added some of the unreal assets on them as they exactly the thing I wanted my textures in my basement to look like.

Overall this week was a very good one as I learnt how to use decals and I intend to continue doing that for the following week and did not also come into any major issues fortunately, next week Ill work on the vines.