Working on the audio today, and most of it was very straightforward - as yesterday I had combed through the ProAssets I wanted for the game and converted the remaining audacity recordings from my colleagues into .wav files - so it was a case of simply upload and create sound cues.  

So I then created several sound variables and attached these on to the character BP - so that I can change them each from the world outliner, according to the player type.  

But, as is now considered inevitable, not all goes to plan... 

Along came the dreaded footsteps.  A few too many hours were sunk into numerous attempts to spawn sound in, with all the variant possibilities on that, and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t - even though I could see the red line of energy flowing through it.  Also, being able to turn this off when the player is stuck waiting to answer a question proved just near enough to sacrifice all patience.

However, Google, or rather I should actually credit Unreal community posting’s, came to the rescue, yet again, teaching me what to do... so next  I re-added the footsteps as an audio component instead as a variable sound cue. That way I could gain access to it, create an event to set it to play, and then earn the functionality to turn it back off when the player is in a stop event.

After a ridiculously busy week - and weekend training in York, I tried to get started on Pepe yesterday and this morning.  I went for using the rig I had used with Erol, but as you can see here his shape deforms.  So, it looks like I will have to use a completely new one.  I really need to chat to Jonny about all this, but fear he won’t be in tonight!

Update: 04/07/2017: so this happened.

Hua, the Highlighter. 

In my struggle to find a quicker way of working, basically creating a half mesh that I could use for the highlighter, eraser and sharpener (because they all have square-ish heads) I find myself now with a bit of a mess.

The quandary is, proceed with Hua...or go back to the start?

Character design

Worked on some very rough sketches for my game characters.

Meet:

Pepe, the pencil

Penny, the pen

Erol, the eraser

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