Greeting and welcome to our 2nd ever newsletter!
Our latest video dev log has been released on YouTube and can be found here:
Dev Log 3
Last Week:
Spent time researching light and film techniques to improve the dev log videos. Was able to find some inexpensive light bulbs at the dollar store that could be set to different colors via Bluetooth in phone app. I’d recommend checking your local Dollar stores for great deals for simple lights that can spruce up your the backgrounds in your videos! These were only 5 bucks Canadian!
Worked on writing and recording the catch up video dev logs. Edited the videos and uploaded them to YouTube, this is what my budget lighting and film setup looks like. Not pretty but it works.
Found a few issues with weight painting and rigging on custom skeleton so started the clean up and re-rigging of the model received on an unreal skeleton using the tutorial below and plugin they suggested.
Plugin Link: Game Rig Tools (Blender Addon)
Researched deck building game mechanics to possibly improve the game design of hacking system. I have a rough system worked out but I’m not super happy with it but deckbuilding is quite the rabbit hole so I might end up making a simpler solution.
Next Week:
- Working on refining high level list of requirements for steam store page. We are hoping to launch store page the first week of September!
- Integrating male character model into animation and movement systems for pistol aim. Will be the same process we use for all weapons’ so its important to get this pipeline working correctly.
- Start on environmental art: 3 modals each from a different biome to showcase the different visuals of the game for gameplay video on store page
That is all for this update,
Stay tuned for more!
Tony D
Cronoforge Studios Inc