Fish AI Game For the "Games and AI Techniques subject" at RMIT, I worked with one other student on an AI-focussed game that we designed based on the AI techniques we were required to demonstrate. The game we ended up creating involves: The player controls a single fish that can change its colour at will Fish of the same colour will exhibit boid-like flocking behaviours "Hungry" fish will perform predator behaviours, roaming and pathfinding to prey if within range The player must guide two flocks of fish to their respective "safe zones" before they get eaten by predator fish I was responsible for implementing the pathfinding algorithm for the "hungry" fish (while they are roaming). The course material was mostly around 2D pathfinding algorithms and node structures - which had to be modified and extended to be relevant to our playspace which was not only visually 3D, but actually navigable in all 3 dimesions which required some extra time spent on how to connect nodes and weight them considering distance travelled on diagonals vs. cardinal directions. I was also responsible for the 3D node grid creation system. This involved dealing with a playspace that was arbitrarily shaped (based on a 3D mesh file created […]
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Screenshot of in-game footage from Wayward Strand's trailer Paintover by Kalonica QuigleyWayward Strand Technical Art Wayward Strand is a real-time narrative game where players explore an airship hospital in the 1970s.Wayward Strand is currently being developed by Ghost Pattern and more information can be found here: https://waywardstrand.com/I was brought on to the project to assist with the Technical Art aspects of the project, as well as some supporting 3D Art work. Some of my work on the project includes:- Creating 3D Environment/Prop Art Asset Pipelines- Contributing to development of art style/how to best achieve these aesthetics in Unity- Collaborating with Architectural consultants and the team to design the layout of the ship's interior and exterior- Creation of the ship's modular interior components and the exterior of the ship- Creation of various Environment and Prop 3D Models- Creation of supporting textures to function as a backup for any non-bespoke assets- Improving Shaders to better reflect our visual goals- Documentation of pipelines, and optimisation of models and Unity project structure
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Concept art - by Jennifer ReuterTri-planar Detail Shader in Unity A shader I created for a project in development called 'I Love You Tokyo'The shader was created to limit the amount of art production time spent creating individual UVs/textures for every asset in the game. The brief was to emulate the concept art's addition of "impressionistic" blobs/shapes on assets.The shader is still a work in progress but currently supports:Flat colour outlinesVariable thickness outlines, generated from either mesh normals or custom normals baked into vertex colour data Rim lightingStandard Rim lighting controls Custom Shadow lighting Color picked for shadow colour, and per material control of how "sharp" a shadow is - intended for cell shading but softer Custom tri-planar overlay texturesAbility to choose from "pattern" textures that convert RGB channel data to HSV offsets. This means that the same pattern texture can be used on any coloured object and still give good results. An extensive amount of control over tiling/offsets of each texture, as well as global scale values.
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