Homework 1: Make a Scene

Short Description:

This assignment is worth 70 points.

Goals

• Have established where you will work on homework for this class.
• Created an account with unreal
• Worked through a tutorial on the learning environment.
• Worked through a tutorial on the user interface.
• Have created a basic scene using the unreal interface.

Formal Description

• If you don't have one, create an account with unreal.com
• Complete the course Tour of the New Unreal Engine Learning Portal"
  • This is an overview of the unreal course library
  • It has less than 10 minutes of video.
  • It has two quizzes.
• Complete the course Introducing the Unreal Engine.
  • This has a little over an hour of videos.
  • It has four quizzes.
  • You may wish to do the next portion as you watch this set of videos.
• [30 point] Take a screenshot of your badges, near your name, showing that you have completed these two courses.
  • 
• Create a homework 1 game by performing the following steps.
  • Start a new project
    • Call this Homework1
    • Base it on the Third Person template
  • [5 points] The scene contains an isolated cube called CubeMesh
    • Rename this to be Walkway Extension
    • Make it
      • 15 units long in the x dimension
      • 2 units wide in the y dimension
      • As tall as the Ramp Static Mesh item next to it.
    • Change the material to be RampMaterial
    • Align it with the Ramp Static Mesh item so it is an extension of the existing walkway.
    • 
  • [2 points] Set bookmark 7 to be roughly at the position shown
    • 
  • [10 points] Create a light sphere object
    • Place a sphere at (-500,-500,-500)
    • Rename it to be MyLightGlobe
    • Use the default scale.
    • Apply a glass material
    • Add a point light source
    • Make this a child of component of MyLightGlobe
    • Make the light color a Green.
    • Create a blueprint called MyLightGlobe_Blueprint
    • 
  • [4 points] Create three instances of the new light globe.
    • Place these at

      • X	Y	Z
        -260	-640	700
        -730	-640	700
        -1300	-640	700

    • Rename these to be Globe1, Globe2, Globe3.
    • You might want to rebuild the lighting at this point.
    • 
  • [4 points] Add a folder to the world outliner
    • Call it Walkway
    • Move the Walkway Extension and the three Globes to this folder.
  • [5 points] The scene contains a TextRenderActor labeled Third Person
    • Change this to be your name's Homework 1
      • IE: Dan Bennett's Homework 1
    • Rotate it into the y-z Plane
    • Move it to the top of the back wall
    • Scale it by (1.0, 1.5, 1.5)
    • 
  • [5 points] Add another text element
    • It should say "This is my walkway."
    • It should be on the walkway
    • It should be added to the Walkway folder
    • 
  • [3 points] Change the following
    • Project Description: A description of the project.
    • Project Title : Yourname Homework 1
    • Support Contact: Your email
  • [2 points] Changing the world settings
    • Remove wall9
    • Play the game and run off the end of the world. Observe
    • Change the World Kill Z to be -10
    • Play the game and runny off the end of the world. Observe
• Save the project.

Note

Please do not hide the required items in any way. They should be easy to locate and evaluate in your final project.

Submission

• You should have a folder associated with your account here, use this.
• Create a folder inside of your folder called Homework1
• Place your work in this folder. (\\filestore.cs.edinboro.edu\csci340\202020\dbennett\Homework1 would be my solution)