Devlogs

11/14/2021 (21ga1114.0)

Hey everyone! EMD is pretty much done!

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So I haven't done a bunch this week, but next week I bet I'll get a ton done, because I've started a new minigame, called Rocket Mayhem! RM is a bullet-hell game, and you can see more details on the trello. Anyways, here's what I've got.

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So I finally got enough knowledge of Unity's particle system to use it to make clouds. It isn't amazing, and I wish I could include bunches, but oh well, good enough (for now at least, who knows). I also started a bit on the sound effects of the game. I will end up working on music eventually, but it isn't a task I want to work on right now, so I'll probably do it towards the end of development. But I do have some sound effects for the game, and they work well. I learned how to use animation triggers, which are way better of a solution than my old solution, which was to toggle a variable in a script. Lmao, that one isn't nearly as neat and tidy as this one.

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I've also done a bit with post-processing. I'm not amazingly happy with it, and I'll probably come back to it once I get an idea of how exactly I want it, but it works for now. I thought I would have to use the post processing stack, but apparently HDRP already comes with post processing, so that was great. I couldn't get the stack to work anyways lmao, so at least we have this (though, I was probably just stupid and missed something obvious to get the stack to work. Oh well).

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That's basically it with EMD. We have levels to do, and I suck at making levels, so I'm not going to do it right now. Instead, I've started on the next minigame, Rocket Mayhem. I haven't done much, but I have selected a palette to use, mail24 (not sure why it's called that), and I've made a design for the player rocket, which will randomly be assigned a new color every time you load the scene. The rocket also moves in the direction of the mouse, when any key is pressed. It's also supposed to rotate towards the mouse position, but I don't have that one down yet. It just spins out of control right now.

Ending.

Anyways, that's about it. Since EMD is pretty much done, this will be the first alpha release. You basically only have one level, but you do get to test out the mechanics for yourself. Also, something I'm gonna want to do at some point is to lower the MSAA (Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing) count, because right now I have it at x3, and that will definitely not run on all computers. Something to fix in the future. Anyways, that's about it! Have a good one!

Stuff to Do:

• I have to make the arcade cabinet account for framerate like the player controller does when it angles the camera towards itself.
• Fix light flickering
• Reset the HDRP default settings and make custom ones for this camera only.
• Remodel the cabinet screen to use a well-known aspect ratio
• Add more details to cabinet
• Fix the camera acting weird when the player interacts with the cabinet by pressing "Space"
• Add stone textures to EMD
• Add an ability for the EMD hittable blocks to be hit multiple times
• Make the EMD enemy, you know, actually work
• Make the EMD player not be able to walk off screen
• Make the EMD player flash into a given color instead of only between clear and red
• Turn the EMD clouds into a particle system
• Finish the EMD pause menu
• Make the EMD start menu
• Make the RM (Rocket Mayhem) rocket not flip out when turning
• Obviously more.

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