I designed a few layouts for the level,
deciding on which rooms I wanted to make, and decided on having a
small shop at the front which will be the starting point, leading
into a corridor where most of the doors will be locked, maybe you can
see something creepy through some of the doors. Then the one room you
can get in, the door will be locked or covered in rubble so you cant
get through any further, but there will be a hole in the floor that you fall down
into a vent, you crawl through the vent and end up in the main
factory. The factory will be full of weird machinery making sweets,
and they will have faces on them and a purple and green colour
scheme.
Using my floor plan, I make a basic
block out on 3DS Max and then started making separate walls from
this. One thing that I wanted to make in my group project was a vent
that connected two of the rooms together, that had to be crawled
through. But I didn't have a lot of time to figure this out before.
However for this project, I made it a priority for one of the days, I
now have a working crawl space to get into the factory. 
Once I had
made this I realised that it is quite similar to the vents on Arkham
Asylum/City, but this wasn't intentional. It took me a while to
figure out how to make the player actually crouch on UDK, I didn't
have to enable this feature on my group project as I was only
building things on there. Eventually I found out that the game mode
had to be changed in one of the many menus, but it wasn't an easy
find as I didn't know the exact words or phrase to be searching on
Google.
Using the existing design from the
Batman Vault book, I modelled the “chocolate machine” and started
texturing it with a basic tileable metal texture and a separate
texture for the features. I will make the additional pipes and metal
poles when I am happy with the walls and overall space that the
machine will need to fit into.
I made a few designs for other
machinery that could be in the factory part of the level – as this
will be the main focal point. I wanted to reflect the real-life
machinery that would be in a sweet factory, so these designs are for
ovens that conveyor belts will go through to transport the sweets and
heat them. I don't think that all of the machinery will have faces
on, but I decided that an oven might be quite a creepy thing to have
a face on.
It could be turned into an Adam West
Batman style trap where Batman is captured, tied up onto the very end
of conveyor belt, left in the room on his own and just as he’s
about to get cooked alive, he escapes using a ridiculous gadget that
he just happened to be carrying on that day.
So far I have made most of the walls,
the crawl-able vent, the chocolate machine, the oven without conveyor
belt, a tileable brick texture, a tileable metal texture, a tileable
dirt texture, and a texture for the chocolate machine. I think I am
working at an ok pace, I don't have a lot of rooms to do so I should
get it finished by the time limit.
However, I have just found out that I
am suitable for laser eye surgery and am having the operation on 5th
July, so I may not be able to work around this time unfortunately as
my eyes will hurt a lot! I may have to extend my set deadline because
of this, but I will try and work harder before the surgery!
eye drops are weird :/
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