Reflections – Scott Tansom

The reflections for Project Anaximander is a mix between my Trello board, blogs post made to this website and my Git commits.

Reflections start with these two blog posts covering the Autumn Term:

HSDC First Half of the Autumn Term 2023

This is my reflection for the first half of the Autumn Term for 2023 at HSDC South Downs.

HSDC Week 1 Second Half of the Autumn Term 2023

This is my reflection for the first week of the second half of the Autumn term 2023.

CSGO Workshop 1 – Unreal Engine Print Messages

Completed the first workshop task for Coding and Scripting for Games (CSGO) for university. It was a very basic task in which you had to play around with variables, arrays and printing debug messages to the screen. You only had to do this task using Unreal Engines Blueprints but as I am wanting to be

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #1

I started working on the programming for BearBearBear (BBB). I’ve decided to use C++ and Unreal Engine for this project as I want to improve my C++. The main challenge I was tackling today was trying to figure out how to get reels in a slot machine to work. My solution was to use a

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #2

Today I set up: My main trouble was trying to figure out how to call a subroutine from a different script. All the code I’ve done so far has been on the GameMode but I want to handle the rotation of the reels in the their script. So I needed to figure out how to

Everything past this point is a mixture of Trello board and Git commits:

Tuesday 5th December 2023

Unreal Git repo created

Thursday 7th December 2023

Blender Git repo created
Blender Guru Donut series completed up to Ep3

Friday 8th December 2023

Blender Guru Donut Ep3 redone

Monday 11th December 2023

Donut completed

Tuesday 19th December 2023

Base character model created

Tuesday 2nd January 2024

Dr Anaximander model created
Beat cop model created

Thursday 4th January 2024

Initial commit (Unreal repo)

Friday 5th January 2024

Some basic player movement working
- Walking, crouching and sprinting with stamina
Edited & cleaned up stamina code
- Made stamina code use milliseconds and fixed a bug with trying to sprint while crouching

Tuesday 9th January 2024

Dr Anaximander model exported
Beat cop model exported
Beat cop model changed – reexport needed
Stamina changed to a built in timer
Dr Anaximander model added in
- Idle to walk to run is animated
- Problem with the walk and run animation
Dr Anaximander walking and running animations fixed
Crouching animation added