My Journey on the NextGen Games, Animation & VFX Course

  Flow Diagrams Flow diagrams, are a diagram which displays a process of a certain action or actions done by a machine like an ATM or a Self-Checkout service at a shop. Flow Diagrams can list the standard layout of an action and also, layout solutions to problems too. For practice, I've attempted two flow diagrams for an ATM and a Self-Checkout Service;

  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.

Introduction to Variables in Programming In our first lesson of programming, in the NextGen course, we've been introduced to different variables in programming. Integers Are whole numbers represented as binary values - stored as variables. Integers can be positive, negative or zero Float Are numbers that isn't a whole number so 1.5, aka Decimals. It can be any decimal value String A data type which are made up of a sequence of characters aka text. Numbers can be used but they'll be classed as string numbers Boolean A data type that has two values True or False or On or Off.  Vector A type of array (list) that's one Dimensional - used for storing data We will be using vectors in Unreal Engine for locations.  Arrays Lists can be 1 dimensional or 2 dimensional  A list of integers - holds lists of information eg; 7                                            ...