I took a break yesterday to watch some ghibli movie, and today i’m pretty excited to get back into making progress. I had several ideas on things I wanna do. I actually started drafting the cut scene using after effects. I wasn’t sure if I should back the text into the video or dynamically generate them at run time.

I took me a little bit time to figure out the correct asset to hook up because when I ran into the problem of widget brush drop down couldn’t pull up the media texture at it’s shown in this tutorial. So instead i had to make a UI material using that texture and reference it in the UMG.

Then i had the problem of it not showing up in the UMG which meant i had to open the source of the pre-cached video so it will run at runtime. It’s interesting because i realise that it’s important to allocate when the source is open (since i set the media player to be on autoplay). Once i fix that it’s all good. I scaffolded the subtitle so when the player is going through different galleries the appropriate string will show up.

I am pretty happy how it turned out, I will need to figure out how to the play again and quit buttons though.

To do tomorrow:

wrap up this cut scene and do the same for the success state
ripple shader for the opening of the main menu