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 Fall Week 5 Worklog

9/29/2024

Finally getting my grubby little hands into the game engine. My goal for this week was to get a basic player controller and camera working while.

Ultimately I decided that it'd be neat to have the player character flip like they do in paper mario as opposed to having the characters just billboard depending on camera view. Ironically I feel with the billboarding effect I was initially wanting to go for it'd be hard to get a sense of depth/position.

Doc's actual sprite animations aren't done, so for now I just have a placeholder Doclet. While the flipping mechanic worked, I noticed the walk animation activating upon landing as well as my movements being a bit floaty feeling with this first go at things so I needed to play around and research more, but hey it was a start at least.

10/2/2024

So this week was basically mostly dedicated to getting the player movement controller refined. Did I succeed by my internal due date? No not at all I got swamped with other work I had to catch up on. That's why my entries have been getting posted so late whoops. Also surprise! I'm changing the format of these because typing after the fact is not working for me and I am wasting time I feel <3 I'll be writing these as I go going forward.

Anyways today was mostly a research day, being mostly experienced with 2D games means oh yeah, I need to learn 3D player and camera controls. Whichhhh also means that I am basically scrapping the bit of movement I had from the previous work day as I want to use Unity's new(ish) input system. I believe it'll be good for me in the long-run but it's not a thing I am as experienced with so I'm hitting some roadblocks.

The other reason I'm redoing a lot is because I realized that I am going to (…and am currently) run into issues with the player flipping if the player can also control the camera (which I would like to be the case). I need to get the movement system properly in place before I can work this problem out.

I am hoping to have things MOSTLY worked out by next Wednesday. I can fine-tune later. While I'm in a tricky spot right now I am confident that once I get the player controller working alright I'll be able to visibly make A LOT more progress. But for now you're just gonna have to take my word.


 

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