Greyboxing in Unreal Engine (Mohammed Sharif)

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 Having a fiddle with Unreal Engine


For this programming lesson, we were meant to be doing a practical lesson, where we fiddled around with Unreal Engine. We were getting used to the controls & the overall UI. For materials we had to save them (I dont remember the controls & hotkeys very well)


Our teacher told us, she told us to find a game level or map that we can, using the functions & hotkeys we were taught, greybox a game level of a choosing. UE4 wasn't working for me so, someone next to me shared their computer with me. 

We decided to the first "Cube & Button" test chamber from Portal. Here's the original version:


And, here is our greybox version of the first test chamber (see image below)



Overall, we nailed the accuracy and we're both are happy with the final result.

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