For the morning....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPkh7r22G7o

Custom HUD

I want the HUD to be very simplistic, one, maybe two items on screen max. The reason for this is I'm a huge fan of the Uncharted 3 HUD. It is in no way distracting, but does the job very well.

I took a screen shot in-game and photoshopped a HUD concept over the top for the three different weapons I plan on having in the game.

M16A1 HUD

SPAS-12 HUD

Sig Sauer P230 HUD

Health:

I don't want a health bar to be shown on screen, but a desaturation of the screen when the player is in trouble, much like what is seen in a number of games these days...

Example below...

Health depletion

Bots

My FaceGen mechanic will be applied to the enemy AI, so I decided to get some bots into the game using Kismet. I had some success....

The bots spawn correctly, but are more interested in killing eachother instead of me, so I need to find a way to work around this.

'Genesis'

Character cusomisation menu in UDK.

The video shows the player changing the outfit for a whole group of characters, which is exactly what I need. My customisation will be focused on the villains.

....now I need to find the guy and get some answers!!

Started building suburb houses

Quickly laid out the ground floor of one of the suburban houses, though I think it's a little to big, I'll be fixing that shortly.

'The Retrieval' promo guy in UDK....

I made a simple character body, and placed it with a FaceGen model of my friend. I'll create more FaceGens to simulate the changing of heads in-game.

Logo

I've created a logo for the game. The title 'The Retrieval' has a mask layer over it, and so does the black background. Then underneath I've layed out images of California, as this is where the game is set.