Homework 3: Unreal First Steps

I started with the starter content to create a new scene. I erased the starter content, then went to file and added a new level. I hit the default new level option. I added a cylinder from the Geometry shapes, I reshaped and resized it and played around a bit with it. I added a curved stair leading up to the cylinder. I made a higher cylinder and spiral staircase in the sky, sort of like another level that the fairy in the game might be able to fly up to.  At this point, I also added a directional light and played around with the shadows which were cast.

Next, I changed the scale of the floor for X,Y, and Z to 5. I began adding texture to the stairs and cylinders. I added a cobblestone texture to the stairs and a chose the ground grass texture for the base floor.

Here, I right-clicked and added a actor, and chose the camera actor option. The following screenshots shows the camera actor view. 

Here, I just began adding additional content from the content folders. I chose the boulders to help add more objects in the scene.

Thank you!

Group Meeting

After meeting with one member of our group, Sunny, we have decided to do a game that combines racing, flying, and a maze or mazes.  We would like to add a feature with levels of the mazes that get increasingly harder or have increasingly difficult time constraints. We are also considering having bonus items that would give the character speed or strength capabilities to break through walls, etc. We also discussed including enemies or obstacles in the game that would cause time delays, traps, or loss of lives. When discussing roles and responsibilities, Sunny volunteered to program it. I will create character and scene designs and will work with Sunny to learn and help with the programming. We have decided to look at some UNREAL tutorials as homework for the project to better learn how to use the program to fit our game's needs.  In addition to my home computer which could access the program, I now have a laptop that is able to access the program and will be able to follow along with the class to learn more as well.