Devlog#3- weeks 4-5

after a week of frustrating trial and error, the main escape method of my game is finally complete and successful. I mostly followed a series of tutorials from youtuber "Anthony Quinn". The series of tutorials originally felt defeating as the first few tutorials about how to make a physics door was unsuccessful from my part since a few of his settings were not locked unlike mine, certain boxes that needed to be checked out were locked grey for me while his was enabled. Out of frustration I did not continue working on the door during the weekend.

I went back into working on the door on Monday, I skipped the physics door video and watched the password door tutorial instead to see if i can continue while getting away with skipping the physics door tutorial entirely.

Turns out I did not need to watch the physics door at all

The password door tutorial is a follow up to the trigger door tutorial, so I watched that video first and was successful with implementing the methods to my door, changed a few things to keep things new. I created a blueprint class actor for the door, assets taken from the unreal starter pack. To allow pin keypad to pop up for the player to enter the password, I created a begin overlap box on the event graph of the blueprint of the door, casted on my player character with a 'branch' blueprint that both corresponds to the animated door and to open up a widget blueprint I created for the pin numbers when stepping into the overlap box.

A second overlap box is created for the pin widget to disappear when the player fails to enter the correct password.

for the pin UI, I created a widget blueprint and had the numbers 0-9, clear and ok. On that same blueprint, on the event graph i set the buttons as variables and set their respective character to a set input text blueprint. After all that is set, I then set the widget blueprint class to my password door blueprint with a "get all widgets of class" and selected the pin UI widget blueprint.

The widget blueprint class also allows me to change the password, even going beyond 3 characters, but I will keep mine simple and have a 3-pin code in numerical order

My next goal is to create an interactive sign to read the description of each painting to allow the player to decipher which paintings do not match the description, which are the fake paintings. 

On the top of my mind, the remaining mechanics is a way for my player to die or lose, either a time limit or a chasing NPC

implement procedural content generation, I was thinking instead of a high-class museum, I might instead make an abandoned museum with the plants growing its way inside the museum, since most of the tutorials about pcg in unreal engine use grass.

If doable, i could use quickly zbrush sculpted stone statues for the pcg instead