So I'm back from my holiday now, I had
a great time, but now it's back to work before I have my eye
operation! I have made a few more assets for my level, but the most
important thing that I had to sort out was the floor. I was using the
existing UDK floor in my level, meaning that the vent couldn’t be
crawled through as it went underground. I decided that I would make
separate floor pieces for each room, as I may want a different
texture on each of them. I made a new floor just for the factory, and
just applied my basic tileable dirt texture to it to get an idea of
what it would look like. I would like to create a concrete or slab
flooring for this room eventually.
After I made the floor in the factory,
I played through my level to test it and found out that now every
time I tried to crawl through the vent, I would automatically die. I
thought that this might be a glitch with my flooring, or maybe the
collision boxes, but I managed to solve the problem by selecting
everything and moving it up. I figured out that as the vent was lower
than the floor, UDK was seeing it as the player had fallen off the
edge rather than crawling through a vent. So I have learnt that the
player cannot go down past a certain point so things should be made
above the default floor, this may be able to be changed through one
of the menus, but I'm glad that I figured this out.
Most of the new assets I created are
various parts of machinery just for the factory. The factory is my
main focus at the moment, but I will make a few assets for the sweet
shop soon. I experimented a lot with lighting on the machinery, and I
would like to make some kind of animation of liquid chocolate or
sweets being transported in the pipes of the machines.
I have put some basic walls in to get
an idea of the size and scale of the rooms. I will match up the
textures later on, but I think I have a good idea of what it will
look like and the amount of assets I will have to add to it to get
the look I am going for.
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