Cyberdream Project

Genre: VR Character Action/Level Builder
Engine: Unreal Engine 5 Beta
Team Size: 8
Project Duration: 3 months
Contribution: Created User Interface behavior which organizes, all build items and spawn them on click. Created early blocking icon containing core behavior including spawning and overlap behavior.

Cyberdream Project: Welcome

Build Menu

The build menu creates and organizes UI buttons representing icons for each placeable object in the build mode, click said icon would spawn that object in the icon. The largest hurdle was to have all the icons represent each building efficiently. I propose to use the existing build object script to hold and reference each items icon data via subclasses. This is then turned into blueprints and placed in a data asset for UI access.

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Build Icon Data Struct

With every build object class coming from one parent class, I made a struct which holds an array of said parent class allow for easy access to all the build object. This method was effect for this prototype with the small amount of build items, but overall would need to be improved for easier addition of many classes

Class Data Organization

Gathering all the classes data conviniently allows me to get the each objects type defined by an enum and the texture for that item. With this I can assign each object to a tab and assign the texture approprately to each button.

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Blocking UI

With first person combat being the core gameplay system we wanted to focus on this prototype, thus conveying where and when to block something I wanted to help with. The challenge was how we want to convey a block indicator, whether it be through the enemies that can be seen on screen or on the players screen at all times. We decided to go with the latter due to the easier readability and less chaotic situations happening outside the players vision.

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Block Icon Spawning

Spawning behavior for the block icon which randomly appears in the players screen. This behavior was a demonstration prior to VR integration and art update for the icon.

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