Everything is an engineering problem!
Condensed some of our VFX materials down, gonna require a bit of time to do the rest gonna have to get back to those due to their implementation.
Spent all day trying to solve our scaling issues with our inventory. Before we used the VR expansion kit plugin our items grew when you grabbed them from the inventory, but when we implemented that years ago we found that it caused the hands to get flung away from the character so we disabled it and just snapped the actor to 1 while also attaching the actor to the hand. The only issue was that it meant all actors would get grabbed at the pivot which looked especially bad on weapons causing the player to have to readjust their weapons after leaving the inventory which just felt terrible, that has now been solved.
Created a tool to reparent some of our material instances to a few different master materials.
Removed phong lighting static switch from our lighting we are basically never gonna use per vertex so its just creating unneeded permutations.
Spent like 12 hours today creating tools, new master materials, and optimizing our existing materials. I’ve reduced our dependence on static switches across the board.
Fixed bug related to collision where the dummy quivers wouldnt show up on the wrist UI
Fixed Bug where arrows taken from dummy quiver would collide with the player mesh and cause the physics to freak out
Fixed a bug where the player could shoot stacks of arrows as a single object
Wrist Ui is now working for option items again after refactoring code from player character to the wrist UI widget BP.
Updated all the descriptions and option texts for all the option items.
Added tag called door to base door
Added the code in for cutting the player speed when they are using a great shield, its been written for a bit that that’s what happened and we apparently forgot to actually program it.
Added in the tag GreatShield to each of the great shields in the Item data table
Added UpdatePlayerHoldingGreatShield_OnInterface event to BTGS interface
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Fixed the bug where the hands wouldn’t animate in the menu.
Cleaned up some of the material usage in the inventory shelf.
Fixed the bug where staff and wand effects didnt show on the wrist UI