{"id":1204,"date":"2025-02-14T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/hm3g23\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:55:37","slug":"week-3-level-design-and-rat-modelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/hm3g23\/2025\/02\/14\/week-3-level-design-and-rat-modelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: Level Design and Rat Modelling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Week 3 consisted of a couple of group meetings to really improve the greybox and more work on the rat model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In lectures we are still learning about project management and how much time tasks will take, since it will help us to even out the workload.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The image above shows tasks with the potential time they could take and their priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My second sprint was to improve the grey box, finish the rat model and animate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Level Design:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Me and parker made some changes to the greybox throughout this week.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We added furniture and redesigned the kitchen a bit, We started thinking about platforming and player movement inside so we added some shelves to direct and allow for interesting parkour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on that week we all got together to do some level design and think about the players expirience.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We managed to get rid of some dead space in the living room by bringing the walls closer in. We also decided we are going to have a tunnel where the rat starts at the beginning of the vertical slice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our prototype development a couple people played our game and gave some feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User Feedback:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User feedback from Xane: ‘The jumping wasn’t very precise, the camera kept clipping to the cube, there wasn’t enough momentum when sprint jumping and the movement is twitchy.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User feedback from Toby: Toby didn’t give much feedback on the game but he said it reminded him of ‘rat simulator’, after having a look at the game I think it will make good research and inspiration for our game<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User feedback from Sam: ‘Its got satisfying movement and good omnidirectional air movement, there are some errors like the cube sliding on the slope and the level design is bland.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rat Model:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This week I fixed up the rats topology and began UV unwrapping it. I used a UV checker grid to make sure that the UV map is clean so that it doesn’t effect the textures later on.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I unwrapped it and made the UV map as neat as I could, it isn’t perfect but it will do since we are not going for a hyper realistic look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the unwrap was done I began texture painting it with simple base colours.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I didn’t worry too much about the materials and shading since we will add a cell shader package onto our assets in unity later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began my second sprint this week which included finishing the rat model, all I had to do to finish the model and begin animation was give the model a rig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used a blender addon called rigify which helps you generate rigs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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