Made a new animation system to work with unreal poseable meshes and now the "world scrubber" has a full redesign along with procedural sleep, wake, and climb animations. Sound FX work next week, along with multiplayer stuff.

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Started running into Quest 2 perf limit, had to rethink game design, which provided a lot of clarity and now I'm happier with the direction of things.

Also now have this line of sight material swap so the player doesn't lose sight of their Feng ship.

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it's been sound production for the last month. more familiarity with Bitwig, but unnerving to "leave" the actual game for so long.

worked on "FengCam" (ship POV) material today (still not ready to include sound in the videos quite yet)

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Added the "FengCam" which gives you a little ship POV screen under your controls, very helpful for double-checking your Feng's alignment. Also have the new "dagger" obstacle type seen here hitting the Feng ship.

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phew. Got my new playlist system running for building spawn patterns. This is essentially how I will do level design, with lots of procedural variation. Seems we've got ourselves a video game here...

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While trying to get more organized I wound up completely reworking my procedural animation approach. So it goes. This blog post by Charles Boury is a great motivator anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/charlesboury.fr/post/3l6ymjnrxsc2y

One step closer to good enough.

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Decided to switch gears and do another pass on the motion control UI today. My system uses a single axis for yaw and pitch control and I really like how simple it is while still allowing very fine-grain adjustments, suits the arcade feel I'm going for.

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moving on from "baubles" next week, gonna do some last things with control UI and "World Scrubber" FX, just a few more systems to revisit after that before going all in on actual game design and level progression...

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I'm making a laid back VR game called YoFengYo, inspired by old, short-session arcade games (with unique motion controls and gameplay systems), follow for wip content

here's some video of the "falling bauble" pickup design/code I worked on today

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almost done with new Bauble design, I'll show the different growth stages later this week (as well as what happens when you collect one of them) but for now just a rain of red and blue baubles

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