Giganta Chaos Destruction Testing (Patreon)

Happy New Year!

So to get this all going, it took like 2 days of 7-hour tutorials. One day was for learning Chaos destruction and cutting up the building and the other was learning just a sample of Niagara so I could troubleshoot why smoke wasn't popping up when destruction happened. Of course, probably still best to add smoke just as Giganta collides with the building so that it looks more obvious. (Beforehand the smoke only happened after the pieces crumbled underneath just like the monument)

But with how this building was cut up in these pictures below, you're gonna see some serious shit in this video.

Here's the game plan for destruction right now on a building scale.
First, cut up the building how I want in Blender. Then if it's a flat panel of building, add some inner layer wall for UE4 to fracture it with. (I got lucky that this building had thickness to its walls but the next building won't be so lucky for me) Then Export the different layers of cuts into UE4 as separate skeletons. The destroyed piece in the beginning isn't a skeleton building part anymore so I guess I don't need to do this too much. But I was thinking that I needed to add shape keys so the inner side of this building could sag like it's supposed to. Gotta get that implemented.

Once it's all in UE4, add in rubble and junk to make the cut off parts look better. It turns out I can keep parts of Chaos together around the edges of the destruction so I gotta look into doing that. Looks GREAT on that corner of the building chunk at the beginning.

Ground destruction will be interesting. It's like pushing up the sides around her foot while the inner part will be pushed down into a void that's hidden by dirt. Meanwhile, some random dirt landscape I created will be moved upwards smoothly for the smushed effect. I bet i'll get better at this over time when particles get involved. Speaking of getting better, I need to use Quixel Megascans assets. Crazy high quality potential there!

On top of this, I have a building getting ripped in half and thrown at WW... Jesus, I did not let myself escape destruction this time. NO shortcuts here. It's gonna be GREAT!

Some people during the stream were saying to set up a fight between Ms. Marvel and Giganta at the end. With a fight between Diane and Mt. Lady planned, I think I might pass for now... It COULD be cool though. (That line of thinking has failed me up the ladder so far so it's a maybe) 

We'll see if building destruction goes as well as current implementation has gone. If it does, then i'm down for fucking up a city block for them to fight!