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Finished Ratchet and Fastener Systems

December 20, 2017 by AlecMoody

Over the last few weeks I have built up the gameplay systems for tools and fasteners in Wrench. I talked briefly about what my plans were for the fasteners in my last post, but now that the systems are finished I can show it off in detail. This video is an overview of how both […]

Categories: Art, blueprint, Game Design, gameplay systems

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Gameplay systems progress

December 1, 2017 by AlecMoody

In addition to building art content for the cylinder head I have been working on improving the systems for part assembly and I have begun building the fastener object class so that I can start implementing tools. For my assembly systems I have been working on a flexible way to allow a single part to […]

Categories: Art, blueprint, Game Design, gameplay systems

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Implementing content and finding out my gameplay systems were broken

August 7, 2017 by AlecMoody

The next step is taking all my art content and getting it set up with the pickup and snapping system I have already posted about. For VR, it’s best to do as little as possible in tick events. Current VR headsets run at 90 frames per second and future headsets my run at higher framerates. […]

Categories: Art, blueprint, gameplay systems, Uncategorized

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Game update

July 28, 2017 by AlecMoody

Over the last week I made a bunch of a new art and did polish pass on the gameplay system. In the prior gameplay systems posts I was working with a single variable that controlled install and removal called “bInstalled.” This was good for testing the flow of communication and getting the basic structure working, […]

Categories: Art, blueprint, gameplay systems, Uncategorized

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Gameplay systems update

July 11, 2017 by AlecMoody

I am nearly finished with the first pass of prototype functionality. Here is a video of the current system in action:   This still needs a lot of polish and there are a few bugs. It’s possible for the bools to be in the wrong state if you swap parts in your hands while in […]

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Assembly and Disassembly update

July 7, 2017 by AlecMoody

I am almost finished with the basic systems for assembly and disassembly. Each car part is a child class with a new static mesh and target socket defined in the construction script. I also implemented the ability to pickup and drop sub objects in a blueprint. I am planning around a basic structure with 3 […]

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