My Contribution to the 3D Art Jam

I was able to contribute some great stuff to a 3D Art Jam that was happening at Gamegen. Using what I learned about Material switches and Dynamic Material Instances, I created a flashing effect in the floor texture emissive. First, I converted the floor pieces into Static Mesh Actor blueprints so I could code with them:

Then, I made a set up with Floor Piece 002 that was similar to how I learned to make a dynamic material instance in those tutorials I found:

All of the variable are made public so that other developers and access and customize them very easily. After that, that I made a similar construction script for Floor Piece 3 but this time I hooked up the values from the previous blueprint directly into this one so they are synced up:

Here's how it looks:

I'm very proud of what I was able to contribute to this group project and I'm looking for to the next one.

Extra Bloooooooooooog

I also managed to expand my shader knowledge this week. There's a couple more videos in the Unreal Shaders tutorials about Raymarching and this is from the second to last one of those videos. I learned to do some crazy things with those shaped.

I made an animated deformation for the sphere. It takes a time variable and plugs it into an equations that changes the form based on sinewave exaggerations of the xyz values.

I also learned how to use structures and functions in HLSL to make even more unique shapes. It allows me to add some more complicated code in a more organized manner.

That's it for this week. Happy Friday!