PERSONAL WORK
Unreal Engine Tools
On my latest project, I oversee the usability of our level designers and the World Design Team and always try to enhance either game mechanics given by programmers to be more user-friendly or create my own helpful tools for better communication through the editor by making valuable guidelines.
Player activity guideline
A guideline tool I use to mark player interactions with the world, mainly for communicating gameplay to Level Artist. I can show different gameplay activities we desire from the player and also markup viewpoints with a point chooser and the ability to check
view blockers
Objects along spline
We have an escort activity that is made with a spline. The gameplay presumes to have checkpoints along the path and a reward at the end. I've made a prototype tool for programmers to showcase how we want this mechanic to behave for faster implementation of multiple gameplay elements in the level
Select overlapping actors
It was extremely simple but saved a ton of our team time when we needed to move large compositions around the big map, especially when others forgot to combine them in groups or level instances. The tool does what it says: it can multi-select actors overlapping with already selected ones and has a radius scaler
Player path guideline
Spline has options for visualizing three path types I use to showcase player navigation. The tool can switch between paths, copy spline points from other splines, reset pivot point, and even optimize itself if it becomes too long. I also feed these guideline paths into PCG logic for gameplay element distribution.
Construction Crane Boss
This was a 1-day project to make a boss prototype challenge back in 2018. A co-op battle against a Construction Crane set in Tom Clancy's The Division universe. The boss doesn’t move its base but can move the crane itself. The boss has a cargo attached, that will crush the player. The fight has 3 stages and requires the collaboration of several players because one player will be vulnerable to the boss and incoming enemies while he is dragging Flammable-explosive barrels to make a damaging impact on the boss.
There is more description in the blueprint slides.
● There is an initial ability to start from (Slam ability) ● Each damage via Barrel is triggering an event that checks the amount of Bosses HP ● If the HP is lower then 65 then go to stage 2 ● If the HP is lower then 35 then go to stage 3 ● Before the stage changes, there is a Whirlwind ability that turns on(which determines the end of a stage)
● When the Ability starts, first the Boss moves to its starting position, this is made for the player to understand that new Stage has begone. ● When the player grabs the Barrel this information passes to the Boss and the Boss starts to track this player's position when the player enters the proximity of the boss ● There is an overlap collision under the cargo so if the player goes under, the boss drops down the cargo ○ The drop down goes via trace by a channel to the ground from the cargo posi
● Put all placed points into an array ● Pick a random point from the array ● Do it at Begin play and on each Barrel destroyed Event after 3 seconds
● There is an initial ability to start from (Slam ability) ● Each damage via Barrel is triggering an event that checks the amount of Bosses HP ● If the HP is lower then 65 then go to stage 2 ● If the HP is lower then 35 then go to stage 3 ● Before the stage changes, there is a Whirlwind ability that turns on(which determines the end of a stage)