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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhile doing so, I unpublished some projects that were either irrelevant or their quality wasn’t good enough, and made small adjustments here and there. And I revisited this old artwork from 2021 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lighting and idea are decent, but not as good anymore. I was going to delete it, but I thought I’d try to at least relight it and make minor adjustments to see if it could be salvaged. Turns out the answer is yes. I made 3 different light scenarios, two with the flashlight as the main source, and the third resembling the old render, but more threatening. It’s not in Unreal, and there’s a lot to improve, but it gets to stay in the portfolio as a good lighting example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I wanted to make a scifi\/industrial gun design, and I started looking for good examples I liked. And after a while I found the perfect one : this concept art of a heavy military truck…which is *not* a gun… oh well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started with the blockout of the major shapes first, to get it right. I had the concept art to work from, and reference pictures and diagrams of existing trucks and suspension. I did not want to rely too much on other interpretations and the in-game model that is found in Apex\/Tintanfall2, I wanted to treat it like a realistic task in a studio, like I’m the one making it for Titanfall2. I ran into the same issue the in-game model has, which is a very flat looking front end, it looked nearly identical despite me not using it as a reference, so I think it’s one of those cases where the concept doesn’t translate well into 3D. So I took some Artistic Liberty\u2122 and rounded the front end a little bit more, to make it *feel* more like the concept art, even though it’s technically different. The latest WIPs are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I finally did a task I was putting aside for too long, the hardest of them all : the settings menu! While I was at it, I finally made the decision to render at 50% resolution with dithering. Previously it was 100% resolution and 50% resolution dither. This has the benefit of making it easier to run at native 60FPS on the steam deck and lower end hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday I spent the entire day trying to fix an issue Unreal and Visual Studio (the project failed to launch\/compile), and it turns out the issue is VS enabling distributed compilation a while ago and I didn’t notice. My laptop was connected to the same network and has Visual Studio installed, but it was missing some components. It somehow caused the build to fail on my workstation? I disabled WiFi, and the project compiled without issue. I’m so done with technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s all for this time. Thanks for reading, and I hope to see you again next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Portfolio Update I updated the portfolio website (https:\/\/abdoubouam.artstation.com\/) and gave it a more modern and clean look. While doing so, I unpublished some projects that were either irrelevant or their quality wasn’t good enough, and made small adjustments here and there.I redid the lighting of the Tunic fanart scene, to make it brighter and match the mood of the game better. And I revisited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I redid the lighting of the Tunic fanart scene, to make it brighter and match the mood of the game better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Tunic2-1920x1080.jpg\")
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<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSamson from Titanfall2\/Apex Legends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I bought a ready made menu system that looked simple enough and fit the vibe i was going for. However, it wasn’t a straightforward task, as I had to port a lot of the code and adjust it because it had a lot of code in the Third Person and Game Instance, and I heavily modified those in my game.
So after cleanup, replacing references, porting code…etc. I found out that it didn’t even work properly out of the box in some areas (input reassignment) and had some very questionable decisions (eg. hard-coded screen resolution list). There was a lot of head-scratching, and I think I ended up adjusting maybe 50% of the code to simplify it or make it work better.
Overall, it still saved me a lot of time, but it wasn’t straightforward, and I can’t recommend it, especially for beginners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/abdoubouam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/UI2.jpg\")
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