Coscoroba

A 2-player Alt-Control game in which players have to crank a pipe and hit a foot-pedal each, to control the up-down and side-to-side motion and firing, for an all powerful Anti-Aircraft gun setup on a spaceship

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The Magic Part 1 - The Ship

A. Base Character (The Spline Rider)

1. Header / C++
2. It's the lowest layer of the PlayerCharacter hierarchy
3. Controls how the ships ride SplineActors
4. Used some real cool interpolation to make the ship
   • Lerp to the next spline point instead of teleporting, to make the movement feel super smooth
   • Lean like a bike upon turning

B. Camera Controller Subclass

1. Header / C++
2. Implemented a 2-layer buffer system to mitigate the Input Irregularities from the Alt-Ctrl
3. Input X/Y => Current Yaw/Pitch Rates (which has it's own Rise/Fall Rate)

C. Weapon Controller Subclass

1. Header / C++
2. Implemented a Generalized Weapon Firing System to which you can tag as many weapons as you want attached to a ship, each with its own firing properties
3. Originally created with a star wars destroyer in mind, with numerous guns attached to one body

Part 2 - Gun Setup

A. Base Projectile

1. Header / C++
2. Created a base layer

B. Airburst Subclass

1. Header / C++
2. Implemented a delayed explosion trigger mechanism on the airburst
3. Wrote the radial damage calculator
   
   
   

C. Gatling Subclass

1. Header / C++
2. Wrote an AnimBP to apply bone rotation to the gatling gun
3. Weapon logic to only start firing over Threshold RPM | Rise/fall of bone rotation upon trigger | Overheat logic & dynamic material control
   
   
   
   

Alt Control In Action

This video shows the first prototype of the Alt-Controller as a teammate and I try to shoot down a plane on the far screen