Video

This video is for my presentation - Cut up to show each section with slowed-down in game footage (the character moves too quickly so it felt like it was rushed so i slowed down all but the final boss room)

Final Design Screenshots of the last section

Started work on the final "filler" section, just this and the last boss to go now...

Placement of walls and some filler "size correct" objects for some assets i have yet to finish / need to make... (much like a secondary blockout but much faster and just there for a minute)

MiniBoss Almost Done

The only thing left for this room would be some small little lantern 

* I have texture space on the wall that i made for this specific room (though i will probably re-use it on the final boss room)*

Ps. The portal is just there for play-testing. Quickly put those in there to make life easier while testing the flow of the level and if things needed moving etc... There are crates setup in the scene to make getting from one platform to the other possible. Previously there wasnt really a way of making it work but still in jumping range (dont know the jump range of the street fist character, just assumed it might be the same or close to the same as the UDK default and went by that)

Custom Camera

Kismet and camera in UDEditor

The Camera Angle in game - This only acts like a normal camera, it doesnt lock Y and Z axis like a side-scroller should and is literally just there so that i can preview the levels properly. 

Previewing the levels normally (first person) is too confining and not really accurate to the final result. using the in-build "behindview" command isnt great either, it's too close and at a bad angle.

The problem with this camera though is the fact it's at a 90 degree angle to the character and the keys are still the same so controlling the character isn't very natural, but at least i get a better preview.

Been a slow week

Slow week - done the corner part (integral to building all the sewer floors)

Had a few snapping issues which i wasted a couple of hours on due to lack of fore-thought. Learnt from this error and will strive to plan better in the future .

Some seams still in the texture which i'll fix ASAP

After this part of the level is complete, the final part is just instancing this same bit for most of it so wont take as long to complete.

Few Fixes to textures in the boss room

Walls taken away- reworking the dimensions of the room too.

UDK Population

New improved Graffiti

3 More Prop assets

Figured i might as well get as many of the stand alone props done as possible now i have the generic parts of the scenery complete...

(left) Main UVs                                                                    (right) Alpha for the pipe mesh

The pipe can afford to have no back to it because it will always be embedded in a wall so the wall its put through will act as a back for it (it'll be out of view of the camera so it looks like it could go somewhere...

MiniBoss

Room in UDK so far - Need to put in ladder and other platforms (walls are preliminary and not going to be quite like this - i need to add path ways for example)

Alpha UVs                                                                                                              Normal UVs

The normal UVs have black boxes around the alpha'd pieces as they were showing up with a white outline and this was the simplest way of correcting this mistake - Tweaking the alpha wouldve been relatively pointless as the shapes i wanted were black anyway and it only made them slightly thicker and from a distance look perfectly good.

Wrecking Ball - UV and Render.

This is for the MiniBoss in the middle of the level. It shares a texture sheet with the ground for the boss fight and the platforms which are suspended from the ceiling (they have chains attached to them too so i can re-use the chain texture from this ball)

Graffiti planes...

....Graffiti.... 

With Frame - 1 Plane each

I have decided to put some modular graffiti in for this to continue with the pattern from the rest of the game (there are gang members etc... down in the sewer that will have painted graffiti in their hideout)

Tilable WALL texture

In UDK This is my finished general wall texture that i can tile round the entire level. on a 256x256 texture it is a single 1poly plane. It can be tiled separately to the floor for the later parts of the level where i'd want the wall to tile up as well as across. (also  i wouldnt ALWAYS want it tiled along with the sewer floor for example)

Basic eg of how i did the bricks - starting with a simple rectangle, bevel, Emboss and contour are used with specific settings to make the edge sharp and the lighting appear to come from the direction of where the character is needing to go to. (usually to the right)

UV sheet (after putting in some basic grimey overlays using photoshop cloud render and also making a grunge texture from scratch using paintbrushes). Notice space at the bottom - ill most likely use this space for a few gang related grafiti drawings around the sewers which ill project onto planes in front of the wall geometry.

Tilable Floor

The basic sewer floor with a river of sludgey water down the middle - Modular and Tilable 256x256 Texture for now and only 7 Polys. This is fairly optimised.

This also snaps to the UDK grid so that each modular piece can line up correctly leaving as little-a-seam as possible and making placement that bit easier.

Asset Creation and implimentation to UDK

 Typical UV Map / Texture AND Light Map 

*(To counter overlapping UVs in UDK so the lighting works correctly

Normal UVs

Light Map Uvs

In UDK

PART 3

This part is short, it involves the player walking on, in the time it takes the player to reach the doorway the boss (that is previously talking to his two minions saying something like "he's becoming a thorn in my side, i want you to deal with him" and the player comes into view, as this happens the boss says "there he is, get him" and the two short guys by his side walk through the door and it closes behind them (at this point the player cannot return back and cannot progress further. In order for the rest of the level to unlock he has to defeat these two enemies). The short men may not look like much but they're extremely fast, hard hitting and have a lot of health points.

Final Boss Fight

Sketch

Block-out

The player starts by entering the screen left (at this point the camera moves into position and the player cannot move too far left or right) the boss will have a mini-speech saying something like "Lets see how you fare against my doggies" at which point dogs and their armed handlers will come down each ramp and the fight will begin. 

Killing the dogs and handlers will trigger the boss to jump down from his platform. The valve at the back is usable by the player for a very sort period (say 5 seconds) so as an 'easter egg' the boss will be killable within that time by someone that knows how avoiding the fight 

** this is for the optional achievement to kill each boss within a set time ** 

If that is not chosen or known, the boss will attack the player and from time to time cut off half of the room using a massive jet of water by hitting the player and walking away ( if the player doesnt move swiftly he will be hit by the water) if caught by water the player will be stunned for a short period and take a fairly high amount of damage so its unwise to get hit. After this repeats for a while the boss will eventually die and the level is complete.

Still to come:

• Block out and plan of secret area 001
• Final Asset building and implementation
• MAYA building
• UDK implementation