I had an unfortunate series of things go wrong as of late; I spent about 20 hours trying to fix a very particular bug that I was having. I even contacted outside support for help and he was equally stumped. Needless to say, this past week was a little frustrating, but onward we go! If I can't figure out this particular issue, I will simply have to go a different direction.

Let us know what you think! Description of how this was achieved below.

This effect was fairly simple to create, but I love having things like this to make the game more immersive and just feel smoother to the player.

Essentially, when the game is first loaded up, I reduce the camera arm length of the character to about -2000 (so the camera arm length is in front of the character at that point) and instantly add the start menu widget. I also ignore move input for the character so that the player can't make the camera do strange things during the transition. From there, once the player selects "New Adventure" I lerp the camera arm length from -2000 to the default camera arm length for my game (which I believe is 800). From there, it is just adding back player movement and voila!
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Every time Juda collects one of these glowing polygons, he gets a new ability!

For this update I had a little help from cool people on the internet. The material for the glowing light was created by following two tutorials on youtube:

Erode tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaElxD9dDlI

Gradient tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9un3Wf5Xo

The animation was created in blender. As for the blue spinning particles, these were created in cascade in UE4, by using an orbit module with upward velocity and drag (so it spreads them out vertically). I probably could have used a cylinder location to make this work but I couldn't get it looking how I desired. From there, when Juda hits the material, (on collision begin overlap), I have created a dynamic material instance so the blue particles have downward acceleration (fall down to the ground) and the material erodes. Then, I add another burst particle with cone velocity to make the cool sphere particle effect.

For the glowing eyes, that was simply using a material on the eyes that blends between an emissive material and the normal black one. Then I just lerp the blend value between them to change them smoothly!

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This is the new wallride ability that we have added to Reky Studio's current game-in-development, JUDA. If you want to see more cool updates like this, head on over to our discord or follow us on twitter.

Our goal was to make something simple, with a focus on the game's environment. Hopefully you enjoy and thanks for watching!

Lot's of creatures can run, or glide, but Juda is a creature who stands alone. How many other animals do you know that can take off their wing and use it as a snowboard? :D

If you like what you see, don't forget to join our discord to join the conversation and stay up with our development of this cute little guy! Discord link: ​https://discord.gg/rPYGDYZ

Make sure to join our discord if you want to stay up-to-date on all of our development with our up-and-coming game, JUDA! Join our discord at this link: ​https://discord.gg/rPYGDYZ

Reky Studios is proud and excited to announce our current game-in-development, JUDA. Set to be an exploration and adventure game in a beautiful low-poly world we are greatly excited for what JUDA will become. But don't just take my word for it, check out our announcement video and say hi to our player character below:

​We have a long road ahead of us, but would love for you to join the discussion. Track our progress and join the discussion in our development discord: discord.gg/kJswUag. Thank you so much for your support with You're Not Special. We hope we can continue to meet your expectations and create super fun games!