@markmsq.bsky.social

@markmsq.bsky.social

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1. Reviewed what I learnt in the class and built the frame (or boundary) for the core part of my scene like what professor Kane did in his class. 2. Added a landscape into my scene. But I also want to use it to build the background environment which I don't want to let player get to, so that's why it's not wholly in the boundary. 3. Added some cubes and cylinders as the reference. 4. Used the geometry components and tools to build a simple building, transfer the group of boxes into a static mesh, and set the pivot to the center of bottom. 5. I've made a simple automatic material for the terrain! This part is not required for the class, but it took me a lot of time, just because of my damn curiosity! To satisfy my curiosity, I researched the material in the resource the professor offered. The structure is very complex, and there are a lot of confusing material functions, but what I was looking for is just the ***VertexNormalWS*** node, which is used to dot a Z-up normalized vector to find where is the ground and where is the wall or cliff. Eventually, I achieved my own simple version, although I forgot to eat dinner. 6. Refined my material by adding ***Step*** nodes and the ***Absolute World Position*** node to make the edge between colors sharper and make cliffs at different height varied, which is more useful and suitable for voxel or cartoon style. * P.S. Thanks for the crash of UE, I found I need to eat, finally, LOL.