{"id":330,"date":"2023-02-12T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2023-02-14T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:12:08","slug":"personal-project-soul-reaver-in-unreal-engine-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Personal Project: Soul Reaver in Unreal Engine 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over my holiday break I found some inspiration to create a little UE4 project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver were remade today, in UE4?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wanting to practice the Character workflows from Maya to UE4, I set about doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First was a model, from the PS2 era. I Ai Upscaled the textures, generated Roughness, Metallic and Normal Maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Then Rigging, using my custom Auto Rigger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Then retargeted animations from Mixamo using Human IK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Quickly modelled an environment, with some VFX objects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Export processes in-between, and it’s off to Unreal Engine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshots for the project in real-time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over my holiday break I found some inspiration to create a little UE4 project. What if Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver were remade today, in UE4? Wanting to practice the Character workflows from Maya to UE4, I set about doing so. Export processes in-between, and it’s off to Unreal Engine. Screenshots for the project in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maya"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}