Playable build!

Just in case you didn't know, a playable build is now available for download: http://www.indiedb.com/games/colourrunners

PC controls are as follows:

W,A,S,D - move
Shift - sprint
Space - jump (hold to walk up walls)
Left mouse button - spray ink

Update

Hey guys just a tiny update. We're currently looking for an Unreal scripter and beginning to build our city. We now have a Moddb page which is where we'll be uploading any playable builds and what not.


ColourRunners Moddb page

Tech Build

It's been a while since our last post. We've been trying to get a fully playable build ready for the hand in. Rob Strachan kindly put together a paintgun for us and helped us out with some UTScritps. We've tried to create a small area that demonstrates the ink running mechanic. We were hoping we could get it working by using Kismet scripting. Sadly there are just way too many problems when trying to script it in Kismet.

We have managed to make a build that plays reasonably well and really demonstrates how we want our mechanic to work.


Here's a section of our Kismet setup
We really wanted to have animated decals in the build, however we started getting some weird performance issues when using a movie texture. We shot a separate video to show how we wanted them to work.



We've recently started testing out FlipBook textures as an alternative. These might be more restrictive in terms of frame numbers but they shouldn't affect the game's performance.

Decal Uncovering

Trying to get the images to uncover while being masked by the ink you lay was a tad harder that we initially thought. After a whole lot of tinkering we finally have something that works pretty well.


This is the material setup we're using for the decal

Sketches

Two environment sketches I've been meaning to post up. First is a waterway area that's a tad too futury and dirty. Second is a rough alley mock up.

Jumping - Solved!

After two days of solidly toiling away and a whole ton of different kismet setups we finally managed to implement jumping into the build. You can see from the video the player can now jump onto a blank patch and land producing a big splat of ink. The player is then trapped within the ink splat until they shoot out a new line of ink. The falling damage and damage indicator should be disabled in the final build :)

Whitebox

We finally have something moving in engine! Sadly we had to use black ink as the coloured ink has some ugly blending issues that we're still trying to work out. This is our very very very first whtiebox test so there's still a whole lot of doodads that need working out.


We also have animated decals up and running (literally) in engine.