Work Experience Journal - Day 3

I improved the physics door by removing unneeded blueprints, replacing a event tick with a timer and stopping the timer from looping if the door is broken. I also fixed a glitch with the door. Before, to make sure that the door was staying up properly I set X and Y rotation to 0 which worked but if the door was broken the door would still remain standing no matter how many times you shot it. I fixed it by getting X and Y rotation on the door. In hindsight, I should never set actor rotation to 0 and should always get actor rotation.

I tried to get the door timer to stop looping when the door is closed by that would require an event tick or another timer which is what we are trying to avoid as it would increase the workload a computer has to do while playing the game.

My third task is to create a flickering light with these variables: Minimum brightness maximum brightness On/Off Ratio Colour Attenuation Radius

I got the flickering lights to work but I had a lot of difficulty trying to get the rate of flicker variable to appear in the actor's detail panel. Finally, I manged to edit the rate of flicker from the actor's detail panel by creating a variable in the actors blueprints and setting the "Rate of flicker Param" to the value of the new variable.

Today, I learnt substantial amount of blueprinting with materials. With this knowledge I can once again add more life and movement into future projects that are absence in older projects. On top of that, I can use materials to slowly ease actors from visible to invisible which would have been very helpful for our collaborative project.

Helpful Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZMcZqL1Eqw

Harvard Referencing

Sarter, R (2019) All images; 10 January 2019

Wood, S. (2019) Unreal. Discord; 10 January 2019 [online]

Retro Gamer (2016). Unreal Engine 4 - Light Flicker Tutorial. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZMcZqL1Eqw [Accessed 10 Jan. 2019].