Allar's Dev Diary #16: Day 7, Tower Defense Side Project Day 7 (11/24/2010) 12. Getting Towers to Track Their Targets <span style="font-weight: no]( http://allarsblog.com/CastilloRTS/Blockout/55_Targeting.jpg) Today I decided to switch gears back into actual tower development, as that is the real nature of the game isn't it?
Allar's Dev Diary #16: Day 6, Tower Defense Side Project Sorry I'm 7 hours late with this posting, had to do some stuff. Day 6 (11/23/2010) 11. Weapon Archetype System When designing the system for towers to be placed, I thought it would be cool to only have a few base tower classes and then allow
Allar's Dev Diary #15: Day 5, Tower Defense Side Project Day 5 10. Basic HUD Design So... today I was at school all day, only was home for 7 hours. I didn't do much except layout some basic design for my HUD... this is what I came up with]( http://allarsblog.com/CastilloRTS/Blockout/52_BasicHUDDesign.jpg)
Allar's Dev Diary #15: Day 4, Tower Defense Side Project Yesterday I spent most of my day eating pizza and working on Warm Gun over at Emotional Robots, Inc [http://emotionalrobots.com]., but I managed to put a little time in this morning to this side project. Day 4 (11/21/2010) 9. Setting Up Basic Interaction Logic From Mouse
Allar’s Dev Diary #14: Day 3, Tower Defense Side Project Day 3 (11/20/2010) 7. Aiming With The Mouse Now that I got the camera set up yesterday and played a lot of Vindictus, its time to get back to work. The next step is to get the player to aim towards where their mouse instead of in the
Allar’s Dev Diary #13: Day 2, Tower Defense Side Project If you don't know about my Tower Defense Side Project, please read Day 1 here. [https://allarsblog.com/2010/11/allars-dev-diary-12-day-1-tower-defense-side-project] Day 2 (11/20/2010) 5. Creating The Camera I've done a few third person cameras before so I was able to implement this system
Allar’s Dev Diary #12: Day 1, Tower Defense Side Project So a class at my school, the Art Institute of Orange County, called Advanced Level Design has 11 weeks to create a Tower Defense game. I've already taken the class, but I have a few friends taking it now. They are currently seven weeks in and are only
Allar's Dev Blog #11: Pathing Fail Sorry about the long time between posts... been working over at Emotional Robots, Inc so I've been busy working on stuff I can't talk about... but I have a pretty big update coming soon that I know a few people out there will really enjoy. in
Allar's Dev Diary #10: Parallax Occlusion Parallax Occlusion basically makes shadowy parts where you expect shadowy parts on objects, but with parallax. The wall that you see is a piece of completely flat bsp.
Indie Game Challenge 60 Second Pitch Video Alright, my fellow student game development team "Team Forecourse" just mailed our submission off to the Indie Game Challenge! Heres hoping we get somewhere… But as per submission, we were required to do a 60 second ‘pitch’ video. Its amazing how short 60 seconds really is, the video
Gold Mine - Fly through Rough Cut - Alex Merz - Team Forecourse First media update for Plastic Warfare, a student game project under development by Team Forecourse! Whoooo! Here is a rough cut of a fly through of our Gold Mine level by Alex Merz. Gold Mine - Fly through Rough Cut - Alex Merz - Team Forecourse [http://vimeo.com/15121909]
Forecourse Spotlight: Brian 'spilth' Kelly's UDK Marble Madness I thought this was kinda cool, check it out. Sorry for the lame audio quality, compressed kinda owned it hard. Thread:http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=74354 [http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=743549] Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/14568219 Game Blog: http://marbleudk.wordpress.com/ Github:
Day and Night Cycle Tutorial Written Version Subject: Day and Night Cycle Tutorial Author: II Patch Read it here! [http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=744541] Video Version Subject: Day and Night Cycle Tutorial Step by Step [https://allarsblog.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=6] Skill Level: Intermediate Run-Time: 1 Hour and
Forcecourse Spotlight: The Portfolios of Greg Canada and Sean Moallem Two fellow classmates of mine, Greg Canada and Sean Moallem at The Art Institute of Orange County have produced a cool tribute to Day of Defeat's Avalanche created with UDK, thought you guys should check them out and hopefully drop them both an e-mail inspiring to do more
ForecourseUI Update for July (Possibly August) Hello folks! Here is an update to ForecouseUI and changes go the CLIK classes that I have done to make the current version of ForecourseUI to work. This currently works for the July build as I have not migrated to August but I will migrate to September once its out
Allar's Dev Diary #9: Allar's Head + FaceFX Created a 3d model of my head with FaceGen Adrian Rodriguez rigged it and did some fancy FaceFX graph stuff. Nicolas Ziegler lent his voice. I imported .wav files, edited their animation graphs, shoved it all in mattinee. This is the result.
The Hunt - Hole 1 Preview by An-Tim Nguyen Preview of one of our first levels done by the QueSpeck Studios team. Our Lead Environment Artist (among other things) An-Tim Nguyen [http://nguyenantim.com/], has put together this nice little video. Enjoy!
The Hunt - TV Interview Project Lead for The Hunt, a student based game project I am currently Technical Director/Lead Programmer of, recently did a bit for Time Warner Cable. I'm the guy with the long and rattly hair lurking in the occasional shot. No true official coverage of me, mainly because
Making A Menu: ScaleForm Tutorial Series Hello thar! ScaleForm tutorials seem to be the latest craze so I've decided to make a series in regards to making a menu in ScaleForm]( http://allarsblog.com/unreal/MenuExample.jpg) You can view the final result of this series here. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-7AfAH3xM]
Allar's Dev Diary #7: Animated Static Mesh Hey... animated static meshes, what? I'll just leave this here.... [https://allarsblog.com/unreal/UDKBreathingStaticMesh/UDKBreathingStaticMesh.html] http://allarsblog.com/unreal/UDKBreathingStaticMesh/UDKBreathingStaticMesh.mp4 [https://allarsblog.com/unreal/UDKBreathingStaticMesh/UDKBreathingStaticMesh.html]
Allar's Dev Diary #6: Basic Level Building a level for my Advanced Level Design class. I'm a programmer so the assets are.... well, yeah. Anyways, heres the video if you are interested. GHOST_URL/unreal/TwoRivers3Days/TwoRivers3Days.html
Allar's Dev Diary #5: Public LAN Port Scanner Yup. Its a quick and dirty LAN port scanner. If you need one binded into UnrealScript, here you go, if not, move along. With the binded DLL, you can scan your network for any open ports, given the port to hunt for. If your game server is on port 7777
Allar's Dev Diary #4: Custom Character + Weapon Assets Just some custom assets I've assembled/created and implemented into my code. They should be replaced with proper artist assets later on but its more of a demonstration of a custom weapon that reloads, animates, plays sound, etc without any ut classes.
