Basic Rigging

For this assignment I chose the Brute character to rig. I added the joints and named them appropriate following a hierarchy. I then binded the skin with the skeleton system. I spent a lot of time painting weights. The root had influence of a lot of the joints. I removed that and made sure the skin moved properly while moving the bones.

I then added controls and made sure to freeze transformation on them. I matched transforms of the controls with the joints and froze transforms again. I then parented the controls to follow the hierarchy. Finally, I constrained the controls to the joints and made the character move by the controls.  

Before Skinning

After Skinning

After adding Controls and Constraints

Perforce Submission

Intro to Blueprints

For my Blueprints project, I created a door that opens based of plyer interaction. I developed a door Blueprint that allows the player to open and close the door by pressing the E key. The door detects which side of it the player is standing on and automatically opens in the opposite direction, preventing the door from hitting the player.

I also created the functional elevator Blueprint that lifts the player from the first floor to the second floor.

In addition, I incorporated the Blueprints created in class into my scene. These included the rotating teapot with a glowing rim and smoke effect, as well as the skull with glowing eyes. I positioned and integrated these interactive elements into the environment to enhance the scene.

This is my first time working with blueprint. I had a lot of challenges in setting it up and getting it to work. I have tried my best.

Perforce Submission

Basic Lighting & Materials

TechArt HW3 - Lighting Basics

For this assignment, I focused on creating a warm sunset environment and setting up lighting in one of the houses in this scene.

I then added environment lighting and adjusted the scene to create a sunset atmosphere using the Environment Light Mixer. I also added Post Process Volume.

I built walls for the open house in the scene to add to the structure of the environment.

I then added lighting to the hanging lamps placed throughout the scene.

I migrated assets from a Fantasy House Pack to set up a dining table scene and a fireplace in one of the houses. I created a candle flame material using a texture image, added movement to the flame and attached it to the candle on the table. I added a color parameter to the material. Then I created various material instances from the flame material and adjusted its color to fit the scene.

Reference Lighting

Perforce Submission

UE5 / Perforce Basics

For this Assignment, I migrated assets from the fantasy house project and I also found a barn asset pack, combined both the asset packss and created a small scene. I then added some scene appropriate lighting and finished the assignment after submitting in perforce.

Beauty Shot

Close up Shots

Perforce Submission