12 February 2021

UV Maps and Deployment

Steam

So my game has been on Steam for a while now, privately and without a build. I thought that maybe now was the time that my game was ready and representative enough to be uploaded to Steam. This turned out to be an interesting process, after watching/reading tutorials I downloaded the SDK and developers tools. The entire process seems to be a terminal based command line program, which looked simple enough. In reality though, not as straightforward as I had hoped. Everything seemed to be linked up, IDs and config in place, followed all tutorials, but when I executed the command it would fail on upload. An error would occur...just wouldn't tell me why. A preview build worked fine, but not a 'proper' build. Turns out there's an drag and drop upload for .zip files in the portal anyway if the game is under 2GB....so I did that instead! Not a great start, but if I attempt it again, I will likely reinstall the SDK and tools and start from scratch. The game build is about 461MB at the moment, so this isn't a burning problem.

Due to this 'milestone' I've decided to label this version as my first 'alpha' version! Majority of the features there and it looks more or less how I want it to look, just need to add more environments, ablities and tracks. This doesn't mean a release data is anywhere near though!

UV Maps

This version has been focusing on liveries for the AITeams. As such, as is my weakness throughout this project, I have been learning a lot about UV maps and texturing during this process. In truth, the UV maps I made for the bikes have been terrible, and this has been ...read more