Devlog#6- weeks 6-8

I made lots of progress in the past few weeks.

I completed every mechanic I want to implement for my game; I got the highlight and description for the paintings, the randomly roaming collector enemy npc that attacks you and forcing the player to respawn, and after some time, I learned how to allow more than one blueprints to randomly spawn. To do this, on the level blueprint itself, I should have the event beginplay node attach to a sequence node, with the sequence node I can add as much input pins as i want, so in my case, since i want to have 6 paintings in total to procedurally spawn, i will have 6 input notes for the sequence and attach them all to the node chart for each painting to spawn in random points.

For the enemy to randomly roam, the collector blueprint should have an on see pawn pawnsensing node attach to an ai move to node, with "self" set to pawn. This will let me add an invisible box to my level, which is the area that allows the blueprint actor to move randomly so long as its in the box. Thankfully, the npc will turn the other direction  when running into a wall with a collision which will work well in the maze like structure of my museum. 

The killing "jumpscare" was created with a custom event node attached to a target is a plyaer controller node, which attaches to a play animation node, in my case, set to a jumping animation, then the play animation is attached to a delay node, which is how long it will take for the player to respawn, i set it to 1 second. The output node is then attached to open level, set to the level of my game, this all allows the player to spawn to the start of the game when caught by the npc.

For the outline in the paintings to show when the player is near it, I created a material and material instance for the outline, i currently set a bright yellow for real paintings and thinking of a slightly off yellow color for fake paintings to add hints to the player.  I created a collision box for the outline to appear, set "event actorbeginoverlap" attached to a set overlay material that has the material instance for the outline.

I repeated the same sequence of nodes for the old dialogue with the collector to the painting and set the dialogue to the description i want for the painting, not outright telling the player the name of the painting, but a loose description with an accurate description of a specific part of the painting, and if the description does not match, those will be the fake paintings.