Environmental Tools

To manage the various views we use in our game, we created a system that allows level designers to quickly place volumes that define camera transitions/cuts, and control mode/orientation.

To quickly decorate levels with intricate chains I created a tool that lays out chain links in various patterns along a spline.

To populate our levels with interesting obstacles, a vine tool was made to quickly generate varied meshes using Houdini Engine. The system is loosely based on a tool from SideFX's Titan tutorial series. 

Dense Vines in a gameplay area

I created a dynamic water material that adds white water near overlapping meshes and complex variation to hide any tiling. I learned these techniques on Alexander Amaye's Stylized Water Shader in Unity blog post, adapting his Unity Shader Graph and HLSL approaches to Unreal Material Networks.

Unreal Material Network

Our breakable wall system is based on pre-rendered RBD simulations created in Houdini and exported to Unreal as FBXs' 

Gameplay Shot

Unlike the breakable wall, the pillar actor was created using Unreal's built in physics...

This event dispatcher is fired every time a piece of the pillar hits something else. After a set number of hits these componets' physics is disabled to control the cost of these blueprints.

Our main melee effects for both sword and upper enhanced combat were created using ribbon renderers parented to the player character and activated through anim notifies. 

The dash effect was developed based on Starlord's dodge from Marvel Rivals, getting the pose of our character's skeletal mesh during the animation and spawning multiple instances to create after images.