This post will detail the development of the story I am creating for the Immersive Design module. Considering the theme of Down The Rabbit Hole, I wrote down a variety of ideas I believed to fit the theme. The ideas vary but all share the theme of an unnatural manipulation Read more…
This post will cover the testing I did with MASH in this weeks lab session. Following the tutorials on Canvas, I created a cube and turned it into a MASH mesh. Once I had created the MASH mesh, I experimented with distribution types. I then added further changes to the Read more…
Hamilton, A. S. (2021) Rural Australia [Asset Pack] Available online: https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/rural-australia [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Crouched Sneaking Right [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Crouched+sneaking+right&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Idle [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=Idle&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Male Crouch Pose [Animation] Available online: https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&query=male+crouch+pose&type=Motion%2CMotionPack [Accessed 02/01/2023] Mixamo (2022) Ninja [Asset] Available online: Read more…
Now that I knew the basics of animating in Unreal Engine, I wanted to find some more advanced settings I could work with. I found various settings I could tweak by watching the youtube video How I get UNREAL ENGINE to look like a movie | FULL BREAKDOWN (pwnisher, 2021) Read more…
I will be tracking my progress throughout the project using a Trello board. I will be using a Trello board as it allows me to list the various elements that I will be working on individually and move them along the timeline when appropriate. Tracking my progress throughout the project Read more…
Following the YouTube tutorials How To Make Rain Niagara Rain Particle System – Unreal Engine Tutorial (2021) and Thunder And Lightning – Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial (Aspland, 2020), I added rain, thunder and lightning VFX to an Unreal project. The first tutorial I followed was how to add thunder and Read more…
The first and most important feature of the application is the re-creation of specific locations within Pontefract Castle using augmented reality. The user would scan a QR code using the application and point their phone towards the location of the ruined structure. Having scanned the QR code, the application would Read more…
This post will show the concepts for the various characters in my digital comic. After deciding to create my characters in the style of One, I drew out some concepts. I feel like I strayed slightly from the style but I am a fan of the characters. Although they aren’t Read more…
To plan out elements of my digital story, I am using a Trello board. On this board I write down key elements I need to work on in To Do. While I am working on them, I place them in doing. Once they are finished, I place them in Done.
Pontefract is a market town located in West Yorkshire England. Fawcett (1921) noted that, during the English Civil War, the town was a dominating military position that had no rival as a fortress site. Though the town has been known as Pontefract for centuries now, that was not the town’s Read more…