UTAS KIT207 Portfolio

Devlog

• Week 6 - Cameras and Post-Processing
  August 20, 2021 by jzachary

  Worked with cameras which would target the player and/or follow the player, as well as attempt to keep all selected objects within view. I found this all pretty intuitive and particularly liked the do... Continue reading

  
• Week 5 - Lighting
  August 17, 2021 by jzachary

  Worked with baked lighting rather than rendering it in real time. Followed Brackey's tutorial to test the basics, then tried to get the same working in my tourist scene. I had trouble getting the sett... Continue reading

  
• Week 4 - Health and UI
  August 10, 2021 by jzachary

  I started this self study module late due to struggling a bit with the tutorial task, and unfortunately didn't manage to finish everything in time (the lecture's just started!). But I'm pretty happy w... Continue reading

  
• Week 4 - NavMesh
  August 08, 2021 by jzachary

  Worked with NavMeshes for the first time, which is a surface that AI use to navigate the game world. The exercise involved getting a model to move where we clicked, and being able to jump over points... Continue reading

  
• Game Ideas
  August 05, 2021 by jzachary

  1. Ratcatcher The ratcatcher is tasked with catching all the rats in a building. The player chooses what weapon to equip the ratcatcher with and where to put traps (including arguably excessive option... Continue reading

  
• Week 3 - Terrain and Modelling in Unity
  August 03, 2021 by jzachary

  Built a terrain for the first time in Unity and shaped it will Terrain Tools, which were very versatile but seemed difficult to use with precision. I primarily used a paintbrush to raise the hills, an... Continue reading

  
• Week 3 - Animations in Unity
  August 02, 2021 by jzachary

  This week I worked on getting animations from Blender functioning in Unity, including multiple animations activating and deactivating at the right times using basic scripts. Unfortunately I had a frus... Continue reading

  
• Week 2 - Basic Animations
  July 27, 2021 by jzachary

  Worked through Blender tutorials for bones and rigging and then worked on some basic animations. I overlooked the detail that we were supposed to model someone at a tourist site and instead modelled a... Continue reading

  
• Week 2 - Importing into Unity
  July 20, 2021 by jzachary

  Just a basic Unity scene involving the barrel and vase created last week, plus some free models downloaded from TurboSquid ( bottle / cannonball ). The bottle came in two types (fbx and obj), and whil... Continue reading

  
• Week 1 - Barrel and Tourist Model
  July 19, 2021 by jzachary

  First proper time 3D modelling. Followed along Brackey's tutorial for making a barrel on Youtube and found it all fairly straightforward, except for UV mapping, where I started having difficulty makin... Continue reading