Mike Ricks Game Design blog

Figured i can do some of the walls with the landscape tool and maybe paint a different material.

Added a rough ground for the level then worked on the sub.

I only had time to work on the sub for a bit.

My plan is to have 2 or 3 switches to be activated in order to drop the gate and proceed through the gate Have the level mostly blocked out. i guess i can start working on the landscape. im tring to figure out how to do the canyon and valley bit.

Plugging away on the sub and level. making like a cage for the lights with a spline The game will be a flying with a sub.

Figured i try to get a head start on the level and my sub asset.

An idea for a submarine using the ufo for scale. Some of my initial ideas and sketches, i know its hard to see because its mostly pencil but it helps me so far.

Just finished and packaging the game. Breezed through the cinematic. i couldnt get my scene to render but his does and im not sure why.

Messing with the matinee which apparently is an outdated legacy system so ill have to research the latest cinematic tool. this particular tool was pretty frustrating so if i wanted to undo something it would lock the undo tool even after i close matinee tool.

Finished particles and the visual scripting.

Finish off  the lighting then kind of breezed through the post processing effects mainly because everyone they showed was already enabled. I figured i could mess with the exposure to help make it darker but i dont know how to make the shadows less strong.

new directional light. spotlights reflection box Starting on making lighting. so whenever i build the lighting my models all turn pitch black so i gotta figure that.

Getting into textures and materials Forgot the add the lamp. the map already had the lit lamp so i had to apply the not lit texture Then topped off the module with iterations which is interesting. On to module 7 and just in time lol.

For some reason the scale of my world is insanely massive and at this point i dont know how to uniformly scale everything down. ported my landscape and objects to Maya but Maya has a hard time maneuvering and viewing everything. and since everything is so large got assets and props into the level. looking at materials.