Its been a while since I made one of these but that’s because I’ve been busy working on my PhD and some real progress as been made. First thing I’ve developed the scenario in which the agents will operate in. I’ve not written the narrative yet but the idea is you are a ships AI …
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PhD Project Blog 2
Its been a busy few months, between the end of the last blog and November I’ve been working on the first pass of my Utility Based AI. I used the node editor I created in the previous blog to setup the tools for the UBAI which the first pass can be seen in the screen …
PhD Project Blog 1
Hi Its been a while, that’s because for most evenings I’ve been busy working on my PhD project. So finally, I have something to talk about. I won’t go into full detail of what my project will be as I will save that for other post. But it does involve using artificial intelligence in creating …
Hello World AI in UE
Hello. Again, it’s been a while since the last blog update, all I can say is life gets in the way. But I am back. PhD is going well, next month is the first major milestone where I must have everything ready to go up for review, after that it will be drumming down into …
Working from home
Hi Everyone Last few weeks have been interesting. We’ve been moving to a new house during a global pandemic as well as working from home for the first time. I have to say I am really enjoying working from home, I expected it to be a lonely experience since I would be missing the banter …
Back to UE4 and Life sucks update :P
Its been a while since my last update. I’ve been ridiculously busy, 1st, we are having to move to a new house due to our landlord retiring, 2nd, my car developed one fault after another, when finally, all repaired and working well again, someone rear ended me, resulting in whiplash and a f***ed up right …
Something I am not sure you should do.
Quick blog post on more work on the game I wrote about the other week. So I decided that before Christmas I wanted to get all the front end menus done. Then all that will be left for this game would be polish before release. I am no artist which I think I have mentioned …
Parallax Scrolling in Unity 2D
It’s been a busy week both with work and with trying to get the groundwork done for my PhD (more to come on that later). But I did manage to get my parallax background code working for a Unity game I am working on. Parallax backgrounds are made up of multiple layers each one has …
Getting Visual Studio to work in Unity again
Short post this week as I spent most of it playing the fantastic Jedi Fallen Order. I may do a write up of this as it had some very interesting ways in which the narrative was presented. I may be doing more of these since I am starting a part time PhD in January in …
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Making an Arena Wall In Unreal Engine
So this week I took another look at that 3D brawler I decided to do in the Unreal Engine. I wanted to create the arena where the battles will take place, unfortunately for me a skill that I completely lack is art. I can draw a semi ok cartoon duck head and that’s about it. …