Development

• Unreal Engine 5
  Unreal Engine 5 was our main tool.
  We built our project and put all small parts together as one.
• Steam
  We were able to play “Could it be more Unreal?” with Steam multiplayer using the Advanced Steam Sessions plugin.
• MetaHuman
  MetaHuman is a framework that enables anyone to create highly realistic human characters.

Modeling

• Blender
  Blender is a 3D content creation software and was used to create assets for our project.
• Quixel Bridge
  Quixel Bridge is an asset marketplace containing thousands of real-world scanned 3D assets (Megascans) and surfaces.

Brand Design

• Illustrator
  Adobe Illustrator is a vector based graphics program for creating the icons of the radial menu and the graphics for the tutorial screen.
• Indesign
  To create a quick storyboard, a self-created template in InDesign was used. This gave us the opportunity to iterate more quickly in the process of finding the visual language for the trailer.

Texturing

• Photoshop
  For editing some textures from the version downloaded online or masking out the people for better photogrammetry results, Adobe Photoshop was used.

Photogrammetry

• Meshroom
  Free photogrammetry tool to turn our photos into rough 3D-Models for the busts in the final part of the demo.
• Polycam
  Polycam was used for photogrammetry scans where Meshroom did not give the desired result. Polycam seemed promising at first because it uses a Lidar sensor in addition to the images, but in the end only the Photo mode was used because it provided a higher level of detail.

Communication

• Discord
  We kept very close contact via Discord as a team and exchanged information almost daily via chat.
• ZOOM
  ZOOM was used for meetings with our supervisor Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz every two weeks. We discussed our current progress and talked about how to proceed.

Version Control

• Git (HTW GitLab)
  Git is a free software for distributed version management of files. In this project, Git was used in combination with the Large File System. Git turned out to be the most cost-effective solution, but not necessarily the best technical combination with the Unreal Engine.
• SmartGit
  SmartGit is a graphical Git Client that was especially useful for selectively reverting unwanted changes on branches so they could be safely merged into the main branch.

Other

• Miro
  Especially in the idea generation process, a Miro Board was used analogously to a classic whiteboard. Classic brainstorming techniques were used, mood boards were created and ideas were visualized as well as discussed.