This week I spent time working on incorporating my character into the game (with some issues persisting through the week) and continued setting up buildings within the game.
Character - Since I'm not a character animator I've decided to get my character animations from Mixamo. I gathered a small set of character animations for the game for now. I set up an animation state machine to control the animations and a blend space to transition between idle, walking, and running. The issue arose when I tried to substitute my character/skeleton/animations for the defaults. After some research and digging into the plug-in's code, I found out that the default skeleton is built fairly deep into the plug-in's system, and it will take some serious work to fully swap the two. I've decided to put this off for now as there are a few ways to approach it depending on how much time I have available.
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| Character mid animation |
Buildings - After the character issues, I decided to switch gears and start working on the buildings some more. I started by importing my first building into Unreal and adding it to my building blueprint. I also set up a UI widget which will display all of the actions that a building can perform. The only thing holding that up is that I'm not sure how to call a custom event within a UI widget blueprint. After some research, it seems like an event dispatcher may be useful here but I'm going to leave some of that work for next week.
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| UI toggle logic |
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| Building with real mesh. Light indicates the building is "on" in the game. This will be swapped out for active animations and an idle state. |
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