Chronicles: Game Development, Game Engines & Retro Futuristic Steampunk Musings.

Video Catch-up

31 August 2020
Unreal Third Person Blueprints

Exploring how to get a custom character to operate as a third person view protagonist – and essentially there are four steps: (1) Import character and animations, with at least those needed for the minium viable TPV e.g. idle, walk, run, jump. (2) Setup an event graph blueprint (3) Build out a state machine, using…

21 July 2020
Using Unreal for Cogwheel Chronicles

I’m continuing the investigation of using Epic’s Unreal Engine (version 4.25) for Cogwheel Chronicles. Presently as a beginner with Unreal, I followed an interesting tutorial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qNO6_xPx0 . This just scratches the surface of Unreal, but once through it I did know the very rough basics of importing assets and basic terrain creation and update.…

18 July 2020
New Hero Steampunk Airship

Some elements of 3d kitbashing have gone on to create this new hero airship for Cogwheel Chronicles. As much as I might want to create everything from scratch, I just don’t have the time at the moment. Still, I think it looks OK rendering in Unreal and looks pretty cool in action with flapping wings…

29 June 2020
Just Gotta Love The Steampunk Vibe

http://gastonklares.com/Steampunk.html

21 June 2020
Contrast Adaptive Sharpening – AMD Post Process Technique

I’ve been experimenting with part of AMD FidelityFX suite. So far the sharpening effect is really proving worthwhile at very little performance cost: Perhaps easier to see with this juxtapose approach: It produces a subtle but very clear sharpening effect, testing continues …

14 June 2020
Graf Zeppelin – The Popular Science Educator c. 1935

18 May 2020
unreal Unreal

Simply staggered by this evolution coming into Unreal Engine 5: And just as amazing is the announcement that studios pay nothing to Epic for using the unreal engine until the first $1M is earned! Another staggering fact for indie developers to mull over. The Lumen illumination and Nanite geometry capabilities are truly 21st century game…

17 May 2020
Cogwheel Chronicles Back Drop

Just exploring some of the game themes within a ‘mood board’ of sorts:

4 April 2020
SSAO Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

I isolated the inherited SSAO contribution to the overall post processing effects and was a little underwhelmed Definitely some AO contribution but this type of post processing is quite expensive to compute, so thought it could get a lot better. After a trawl of what others had achieved, a refactor of the shader produced this…

21 March 2020