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Easy Weapon Designer Toolkit (EWDTK) (2022)

This image here is V1 of the project, V2 below

This project was created for the prototyping module. This project required me research and develop a tool / plugin for Unreal by doing development sprints and gathering user feedback.

I decided to create a system that would allow a designer to create weapons using modeled mesh parts to create new weapons or randomly create new weapon with a click of a button.

The configuration created here then could be used in the game to spawn the created configuration.

Whole user interface and blueprint code

Mesh finding and sorting. This system was flawed as I was saving the gun configs using integers that corresponded with the meshes inside the project meaning the if the other designer does not have the same meshes imported as the orginal gun config file it would use the wrong mesh or produce errors.

V2

In version 2 I implemented a updated user interface and allowed the user to click on the physical part of the gun model and use scroll wheel to quickly change the part without clicking the drop down box and scrolling through the parts.

These changes were based off user feedback and testing.

Overall this tool / plugin allowed users to import their own meshes with pre placed sockets to allowed snapping of parts to the correct positions so any part created could snap to existing sockets on the main body of the weapon.

Any meshes imported in to these folders are picked up and are added to the dropdown boxes for the user to use.

The config save and load system used mesh names instead of integers in a list meaning now as long 2 users have same imported mesh their gun configs would save and load between them.

Conclusion

Sadly I was not able to include all the feature I would like to add or ones suggested by users due to time constraints and other projects requiring my attention however I have learned about Unreal's asset management system and UMG design and interaction with the editor.

Small RTS Project (2021)

Individual summer project

This was a summer project where I wanted to explore real time strategy gameplay systems.

This video shows me testing placing buildings and testing rotation and hitbox collision.

Crewmember (2020) First time with Unreal

Individual Project

Wave based first person defence

This project was my first time in unreal and was ambitious small prototype for unit.

The concept of the game was to defend your plane while managing and fixing your plane.

This was inspired by the game Bomber Crew but instead was in first person.

I had to learn basics of Unreal by blueprinting, using the montage system and using Cascade FX system.

Key features of this project is the heavy machine gun turret when fired it would start with 1 audio sample and then randomly switch to 9 others to create a realistic sounding machine gun that warmed up and also used VFX to show muzzle flash.

Conclusion

This project was fun to do as I had to search how to do things in Unreal and figure out how the core systems should work. From doing this project it really pushed me in to Unreal engine and started challenging my self by creating demos based off games I like to help gain knowledge on how those systems worked.

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