#assimistruct

24/01/18

Created a wheeled mechanical theropod, a biometal construct by the name of Rapturbo, for a school project involving a first-person platformer game.

The original concept of this character was that they collect scrap metal to upgrade their chassis, granting the ability to crouch and use all four wheels for greater forward speed but sacrificing sideways movement, and to flatten the wheels to be used as feet which would greatly reduce speed, but enable the player to climb stairs.

Body contains 13K triangles, cables/wires contain 2.3K triangles. The high triangle count is due to having a large number of small parts throughout the mesh.

Makes use of two diffuse, metallic, and roughness maps for the body, and a single-color emissive material for the eye

Rig is composed of 174 bones:

-22 main control

-20 forward kinematic

-12 inverse kinematic

-117 auxhiliary [cables, hydraulics]

-3 sockets

The wires and cables make use of inverse kinematics to follow the limb position more accurately without needing to manually animate them in place.

Update on that level design thing.

So in the past week I’ve managed to create pickups [or at least, the base item that floats in place], as well as making a good handful of environmental assets.

I still have no idea how to do a level layout, so at this point I’m just assembling random structures out of all these modular parts I have. I kinda have a start at some environments, sure, but there’s still no platforming, so I’ll need to get to that soon.

A S S I M I S T R U C T

School project where we needed to make a 3D first-person platformer.

It’s a little rudimentary, containing two levels, as well as a start menu, end screen and a game over screen.

ASSIMISTRUCT takes place in an environment in my larger working title, Spacebender. The player takes control of the wheeled biometal construct by the name of Rapturbo, collecting scrap in the Atraxei Industrial complex, and to navigate the canyon and later the complex itself.

Note: Due to Rapturbo having wheeled feet, you can’t climb stairs! Try finding an alternate route to higher ground.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a1toxfLRsaFjz_ywgywtjmFiIZQdkDtd

Version 0.5.2 is up for download! Simply extract the entire ZIP into a folder and open the .exe file. Works for PC/Mac/Linux, 32-bit.

WASD to move, space to jump, mouse to look.