Unreal | Ben Ahlbrand CV

Environment Modeling in Unreal Engine 4

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

For an environment modeling course I took at Purdue University with Daniel Triplett, we had to put together a classic corridor scene in Unreal Engine 4 w/a couple of different lighting setups. All textures were made in Substance Designer.

Here’s a video with the post processing and day time lighting:

Here’s a few stills from the night lighting:

Unreal Engine game jams

Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

VR Asteroids Gaze

I built this in a few hours for a VR experience similar to the class Asteroids game - sans player thrusters, as the issues with motion sickness would be pretty excaberated in a 3D free fall situation like that.

VR Shooting Gallery

I built this quickly riffing on standard assets available with Unreal Engine in order to procedurally generate a shooting gallery tower by means of blueprints

VR Online Multiplayer FPS Unreal Engine 4

Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My good friend Jacob Richwine and I built a VR successor to the source engine game Ricochet that we called, Tricochet (clever, eh?) that leaned very heavily into the TRON design stereotype. Fun fact - Disney’s investment in TRON computer graphics VFX sparked a lot of amazing innovations (one of which is procedural gradient noise).

We had a lot of fun with it, and added too much post FX, player AI, blinding attacks, physics based discs. We networked it together for a multiplayer experience.