Author: AbdouBouam

This week I experimented a bit on character clothing, added some character AI behaviors, and improved the greetings/chatter system. Here’s a detailed explanation. Character Clothing I experimented more with Marvelous designer and made a “real” scenario. I made the entire thing in Marvelous designer (so no manual sculpting), and got a lot more familiar with sewing patterns and styling. I textured it quickly in […]

It’s been a while since my last devlog. I took 3 weeks of vacation. I visited Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey, spent a few days with parents, and took a few relaxed days too. I’ll be back to work at full capacity starting from this Monday. In the meantime here’s a summary of what I did. Marvelous Designer Trial I am going to make […]

Here’s a summary of what I did in the last two weeks Art I wanted to make a dark/cinematic/creepy render with the robot model, so I did. I used foliage from Megascans, and most of the other stuff aside from the watch tower is from old models. I rendered it in Unreal instead of blender this time as an exercise, and I’m satisfied with […]

Bevel baker I made a one-click bevel baking tool for Blender. It will be useful for models that don’t have a highpoly version. I made it by modifying one of my addons (Grungit).I didn’t test it extensively yet, that will happen when I actually start using it Robot Head 2 I made another robot head for adverts and posters and other stuff in the […]

Robot Model I added some final touches for the robot texture, and also added an armature and weights I made up another brand for lore resons : What would a robotic/tech company in the 80’s be named? Preferably one from Eastern Europe/west Aisia and the Slavic region. It had to be related to something that conveys trust and also shows that the goal is […]

From now on I’ll keep the devlogs bi-weekly. There are many uninteresting things that aren’t worth showing, and also a lot of behind the curtains work that I won’t show. Things like story writing, experiments, networking, research, courses, paperwork…etc. This devlog is fairly short, here’s a summary Robot Model Low Poly + Texture This took the majority of a week to finish. There were […]

Here’s what I did this week Blockout I worked more on the village blockout. I used a combination of Unreal Spline tools and Blender Geometry Nodes. It’s still a rough blockout, but I’m happy with the overall vibe. I also did some performance tests on the Steam Deck, and I was getting 70+ with no optimization. I always keep underestimating its performance. Debug movement […]

I didn’t want to post week 35 on its own because most of it was spent on the robot model and I didn’t feel like that’s worth a devlog on its own. So instead here’s a summary of what I did in the past 2 weeks. Mechanics I was talking with a friend about how spinning the character is one of the first things […]

Dialog variables I needed to make the dialog adjust for the player character’s name, gender, age…etc. So I added variables to the dialog. For example : Hello $PlayerName$ becomes Hello Abdou. Of course this can be anything, but for now I just need it for name and pronouns when the player is referred to in third person. This can be changed dynamically during runtime […]

Player character model I worked a little bit more on the player character, sculpting more details and adding a clothed version to the game project The first pass of the legs is done too. I used plasticity for the circular and square cover thingies, but the rest is regular sub-d modelling Characters Look at objects of interest I added a “look at” feature for […]