Kismet: Pre-Scaleform Keypad (Unreal UIScene)

I needed a keypad for a project and had no idea how to implement one in the UT3 Engine so I decided to attempt to teach myself the UIScene Editor. I had no experience with the editor and documentation on it was virtually nonexistent at the time I was working on this project so after much trial and error, I devised a layered UIScene interface and several kismet sequences to accomplish my goal. The setup is not ideal and is not as clean and elegant as it would be with today’s Scaleform GFx UI’s, but it got the job done and it serves as another example of my ability to problem solve and pick up unfamiliar systems.

C++ Games

These are some quick games I wrote in C++ while trying to learn the language. I have not worked extensively in C++ having learned it on my own, but I am very comfortable learning new languages and am always trying to expand my knowledge. If you would like to try the two small games I’ve written the links are provided below:

Number Guessing Game
Hang Man Game

MEL: D&D Dice Roller

This was a project I undertook during my time at The Art Institute of California – San Diego. It is featured in my main demo reel. The assignment I was given was to write a MEL process that would accept variables and give different output based on the data provided to the process. I decided I wanted to go beyond the basic requirements and asked the instructor if that would be OK; he agreed. The dice roller was born out of my desire to challenge myself and to stretch the definition of what MEL can do. I didn’t want to write another procedure to duplicate a piece of geometry and apply arbitrary transformations to it, I wanted to do something that would force me to think outside of the box; the dice roller idea was born.

I created a dice roller application that builds on the Maya physics engine to roll the dice. Rather that just make a random number generator that tells the die which face will point vertical after the roll, I decided to use three random values per die and assign them to the three spin variables for X, Y, and Z as well as a fourth random value that would be assigned to the initial velocity of the die, thus achieving a more natural die roll. I also wanted the user to be able to select which type of die to roll and how many, allowing the alternative dice used in Dungeons and Dragons rather than just a standard six sided die.

Cogshire: UnrealScript

On this project I was thrown into an unfamiliar scripting language with which I had never previously worked. I had to implement a custom weapon into our prototype which did not conform to any of those supplied by the engine. Over the course of 3 weeks I taught myself the rudiments of UnrealScript and implemented our custom weapon into our prototype by drawing from the exiting weapon classes and modifying the code to fit our game.