Wk7: Platform Palooza (Lava Hazard)
Week 7: (Feb 12-Feb 18)
Notes: This was actually 2 things in one video: platforms and a functioning lava death which closely resembled the quicksand hazard; I made the material with starter content and a tutorial and tweaked the values. Additionally, while it was a tad over-scoped for a micro passion project, I really wanted to put all kinds of platforms in a single week/video as some of them were faster than others. The only true bug I ran into was getting the lava to kill the player reliably. In the end, I scripted a workaround to make it reliable and to ensure the player could not get permanently locked out of player controls; I spent a significant amount of time debugging the issue (more than I should have for an MPP), and if this were in a professional space, I would have had a programmer look at what might be causing the issue.
Micro Passion Projects are intended to be short projects that can be completed in as little as 30 minutes or up to 4 hours. The goal is to try things, learn things, showcase things, have references to look at later, and have fun.
Resources I found helpful:
- • Unreal Engine 4- Lava Tutorial
- • How To Create Moving Platforms (automatic ...
- • How To Make Disappearing/Reappearing Platf...
- • How To Create A Dynamic Falling Platforms ...
- • WTF Is? Actor Rotation in Unreal Engine 4 ...
- • Unreal Engine 4 - Rotating Static Mesh Tut...
- • How To Make An Object Follow A Spline Path...
-The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Simplex by Kevin MacLeod
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4367-simplex
License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license