I need practice doing more of these until I stop rambling on and repeating myself… but anyways.
Quick video talking about and demonstrating the FOV settings we now have in Ground Branch.
Personally, I have a 24″ monitor that I sit about 90cm/3′ from.
Then again, I sit about 10mm away from the lenses of the Rift.
-Kris
Projectiles in Ground Branch are taken from a player specific ‘pool’ whenever a player uses a firearm. A projectile taken from this pool is assigned any relevant info and sent along its way, using the Unreal Physics to simulate bullet flight and drop. Phsyx could be used instead, but we see little benefit in using it over the basic Unreal physics.
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As stated last week, the default right mouse button is assigned to the left hand, not aiming.
First thing to think about – we’re going to let you choose to be right or left handed, and support the ability to swap hands in-game. Your handedness dictates your ‘main hand’, with the opposite hand being your ‘offhand’. Aesthetic reasons aside, the game play enhancements are just something we don’t want to pass up. …
Bit of a slow week, continuing my efforts into Scaleform and Action Script, this time in relation to the main UI.
Some discussion lead to a pretty significant change – there is no main menu. Being a PC focused game, having to go back to a central screen to choose another seemed odd. Animations are also currently non-existent. Quick transitions may be added later, but that is about it. We figure people would prefer to be in-game playing, rather than waiting for flashy animations and camera flybys.
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What began as a test of the basic parts of the inventory system ended with me diving head long into the Scaleform and Action Script.
End result was the following:
Forgive the programmer art – I was going for function, not aesthetics.
And functional it is.
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