I won’t lie. This is one of my favorite topics concerning the tool set. Feel free to check out some of the animation and effects I created for Global Agenda so you can see the possibilities.
Also, the videos are stored on the class server under Tutorial Three if you are having issues with the streaming video.
First guess is you don’t have the latest version of that package loaded up. Go ahead and download the latest, just to be certain, and replace the one that is there. Close UDK and relaunch. I just double checked here and had no problems. The particles sub-directory was grey when I launched UDK and then loaded when asked to.
Had a question today about what if your circles are spinning the opposite way from the demo. My response;
Easy fix!
Remember how in matinee you set the rotation in the curve graph to -360 or something? Change it to 360 ( or the inverse of whatever you have currently. Basically if it’s currently positive 360 switch it to negative 360 or vice versa.
This is why. When you place the circle it knows which way is front. I placed it in the demo facing one way, you the other. Your circle thinks its facing opposite of mine. Another solution is turning the circle BUT if you’ve already started animating then don’t……bad things will happen.
Had a question today about what if your circles are spinning the opposite way from the demo. My response;
Easy fix!
Remember how in matinee you set the rotation in the curve graph to -360 or something? Change it to 360 ( or the inverse of whatever you have currently. Basically if it’s currently positive 360 switch it to negative 360 or vice versa.
This is why. When you place the circle it knows which way is front. I placed it in the demo facing one way, you the other. Your circle thinks its facing opposite of mine. Another solution is turning the circle BUT if you’ve already started animating then don’t……bad things will happen.
To shrink the map build time you will want to reduce the Override Light Map value on each of the assets to something like 8 or 16 temporarily. In addition to that you can change the light build from Production or High down to Preview. Before you build the final you will want to bump those light maps back up to something that looks nice and change the light map build to Production.
I built the particles in a particle editor called Cascade that is part of the UDK tool set. We may or may not get to mess with particles based on the strength of the class later in the semester.
