Apr 3, 2015
Community Announcements - howell2010
Hello Survivors! It's time for another Weekly Dead!
This week we've got some fun and interesting things to talk about.
Something Unreal
I'll start with a bit of work that isn't ours. A few days ago, the Unreal Engine devs posted a video from a livestream demonstrating a new feature they've developed for the engine. Procedural foliage generation. It works by giving individual trees a chance to spawn however many trees based on a procedural "seed" system, thus it can generate an entire properly (or improperly) spaced forest from the placement of one tree based on how many steps you give the system.
Why do I bring this up? Because TDL will be using the system as soon as Unreal releases it.
This is the video in case you would like a more technical description
Digital Wizardry
This is where most of the work has been done.
Richard has been working on the melee stuff. Specifically, picking up and equipping weapons (a katana is the example he's been using), implementing the melee swing animation, tracing the path of the blade through the air, and applying damage to zombies that intersect the path.
You can see what it looks like by following Richard's Twitch stream which he occasionally does while programming.
If you want to see past broadcasts by Richard, go no further than here.
And if you want to be alerted when he starts streaming than you need to do no more than follow @thedeadlinger on twitter...if you don't want to just, subscribe to him on twitch, which you absolutely should.
Items and Animation
We've got a couple things to show today in this category.
Atle has been making some walking and Running animations for boars.
^This gif slowed down in post for reasons, though you can now see how it's body moves while running.
These aren't in engine renders, so what you'll see in game will look much better than this.
On the Item front, Ryan has finished up the high poly of the AT Launcher and started the initial color pass.
It looks quite good if I say so myself. I wonder what one will do to a zombie.
Bug Corner
To round out this week's dead, we'll look at something silly. From Richard's Twitch stream, the dreaded "Crotch Sword".
Don't worry of course, Richard already knocked that bug "out of the ball park" in less than 5 minutes.
That about wraps it up for this week's weekly dead.
Be sure to follow us @TheDeadLinger for more development news!
Linger on, Survivors!
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