Many pieces of the puzzle are falling into place.
I managed to build a server and clients – while I still don’t know how to connect the clients to the server, but that’s true for everything I learn: there are more wholes left than in a Swiss cheese! -, I can make a character move, I learned most of what I need about using blueprints, I have ideas about the map, the spellbook, the effects, the materials and tons of other stuff but there is one thing that freaks me out: animation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to build my first chest, to test materials so I don’t have to texture most objects, just use materials, and I also want to test interaction between the character and the chest: point and click and move to the chest which opens when close enough or use the modern approach: move up to the chest and press E when close enough. I still have to decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever, I need to animate the opening and closing of the chest and for that there are 2 techniques: build a blueprint in UE4 and apply rotators to the lid of the chest on a timetable, or rig a chest in Blender the same way characters are rigged: with armatures, basically bones to which are attached vertices and which move following animation patterns that can be exported to UE4 and connected one to the other with a state machine, more on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can animate the chest fine using rotators but I thought now is a good time to learn object\/character rigging so I’m back in Blender 2.8 learning the whole process of armature creation and weight painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This probably is the hardest thing in the whole project, everything is going nicely at the moment, to a point I can see the whole project coming to fruition, but I have to overcome animation difficulties. Animator is a job by itself, yet another job I have to learn, and it’s a hard one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many pieces of the puzzle are falling into place.I managed to build a server and clients – while I still don’t know how to connect the clients to the server, but that’s true for everything I learn: there are more … Continue reading