"Find what you can do the slowest, for the longest and still absolutely love it, and go in that direction.” — Christina Koch 👩‍🚀

I found the dome's walls too plain, so I added all those panels today. Also fixed some of the cables and other smaller stuff. Procrastinating on the important things, as usual. 😅

Added a couple of options to my main menu... Mouse Sensitivity setting, Invert Mouse (no idea who is that crazy).😅 Also started messing around with Niagara effects for my energy beam.😎

audio maqueta I 🔊 I'm no sound designer. 🫣 Edited in DaVinci.

Ok, I got it to work. 3 level sequences... Turning On / Running(loop) / Turning Off. I also want to play around with sound & particle effects to learn more about how the UE sequencer works. Definitely something you can lose yourself in for an extended amount of time.😅

I think I'll need a second monitor. It's a pain working with the sequencer in UE with only one screen. 😡

Started recreating the animation in the sequencer. A little bit more work but much more control over each part. Will post when it's ready.😉🎬

Here is how it's supposed to look. Blades staggered in order.😉

I just noticed that the blades are moving out of order. I was using the Get Components by Tag node to create an array of each blade but that node creates the array in a random order. I went back to the Make Array node... doing it manually. 🤪

Trying to get more details into the opening/closing animation. Not much, but tomorrow is another day.🤷‍♂️

Today I added a few more details to the lower section and switched the emissives of the blades from a Dynamic Material Instance to Custom Primitive Data (didn't know that was a thing😅), cutting back on some draw calls. Don't mind my invisible walkway.

Deploy Blades... (Updated)😇

Retract Blades...😎

Vibe Check... one... two

I've no idea where the time went today. Anyhow, added a few details here and there: some frosted glass for the panel and some cool cable action, adding a tad more movement to the environment.

I'm pretty tired tonight, so I only added a few more props. Let's see what tomorrow brings.🥱

I hope I'll find some time to keep working on it tonight. Enjoying myself quite a lot.👨‍🏭