Anduo Report October 13th, 2023

 Welcome, cleanse thyselves with thy news from the creators! This moon is the full blood moon also known as total lunar eclipse. 🌑

Clearly the blood moon sparks curiosity and the imagination of many, as well as in our circles, observe:

Bear:

Much of my time the past 2 weeks was tied up in finishing up the release of Rosas are red. However, I do want to talk a bit about a big thing we’re currently testing.

We’re testing how realistic it is to port Erokin from Unity to Unreal. As I’m sure most of you have heard, Unity has been in a lot of rough waters recently and we are convinced that it would be a good decision for Anduo Games as a whole to not only be able to use a single engine.

I’ve put a ton of work to port the core of Erokins current gameplay into unreal:

• Interaction system
• Walking / Running
• Zooming
• Rotate character towards another
• LookAt IK
• Moving mouth depending on voiceacting track loudness
• Dialogue System with simple 1-node for "Play Dialogue Line"

The task is still hard to grasp in scale. We’ve written out the rough shape of what needs to be done:

I’ll put some more work into feeling out how realistic porting to unreal is. I’m mostly waiting on Animation work right now anyways, so this isn’t suuuper blocking right now anyways.

Still. This is pretty scary. I haven’t ever made anything even close to this scale in unreal. We’ll see how it goes!

The guard lady has now been summoned into the world of Unreal - can you tell the difference?

Jugger:

Jugger has been melting away all the candles and dressing the beautiful statuettes with it 🕯️ :

PKing:

 PKing has been working on summing our alchemist ⚗️  ,

here she is in the process:

Looks like she might soon appear in Gateston!

Nerada:

Nerada has been working on some down and dirty animations

As well as trying out some motion tracking on some characters, quite the theatric 🎭 :

Swurst:

Swurst has made some animations for the guards and gone in to details:

 Thank you for visiting even amidst a blood moon, we wish the rest for the weary and have a safe weeks end. Stay true one of a Erokin’d.