This game will be a combination of all sections in this course and what i have gone on to learn during the course time and more.
The video shown below is before a massive rebuild and new features and fixes have gone into Shadow Stalkers since its former life as Building Escape V2 Rebooted.
Video to be updated in a few days.
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A little sneak into the rebuild.
Incidently anyone following this you may find that for some reason doors break your navmesh.
I found if i turned off the “Can affect Navigation” on the doors and items that are blocking it then it allows the navmesh through. (Have not tested enemies passing though door as assume thats colliders and enemy would just keeep trying to get though door).
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Is the door on the left where the navmesh is really thin an indication of the fix or the issue @Marc_Carlyon? I ask only because I remember seeing someone demo some of the Unity functionality at a talk and something similar was occurring (not with doors) - there was a radius that could be set from memory, in this case it stopped the character (npc) from not walking “through” the walls whilst following the mesh… wondered if maybe there was a setting for the size of the navmesh, or rather, the distance away from things which maybe meant that the navmesh became too narrow for the doors? Just guessing really…
Great work on the above by the way… 
The thin piece is actually just the angle and the archway making it thinner as its covering a bad join in the scenary 
(Although i will keep an eye on that in later testing, Thanks)
The problem you cant see because the navmesh is also displaying on the ceilings.
Just beyond the trigger box (Box with the button in it) is a door sitting in its frame with a similar archway as to the one previously mentioned.
If the Can Affect Navigation is turned on i think what is happening is that regardless of the door being opened or closed the collider for the frame blocks the navigation mesh.
With both the door and the frame having Can Affect Navigation off the navigation mesh is allowed to pass through even with the door closed.
I think the colliders will prevent enemies walking though doors they shouldnt if i make an error in their patrol routes or something.
Sssshhhhh… no one knew! 
Something that will actually be quite good fun to test
I actually tested some today and built more level.
I was actually surprised as the AI did something rather unexpected.
I deliberatly set the Enemy AI to have a patrol point the other side of a closed door.
Expected Behaviour :- NPC to walk to door and keep trying to walk though the door.
Actual Behaviour :- NPC walks to the door, STOPS, Waits for 5 seconds (Time to wait after reaching way point) and then moves to next waypoint.
Thats some clever under the hood AI!
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Ooh thats a bit sweet with out having to add anything yourself. Did it just stand their facing the door or drop.back into another state and say maybe turn around to face the other way?
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What he is programmed to do via blueprint is select the waypoint, Move to it, Wait 3 seconds (+/-2), Continue to next way point.
I the video the waypoint is the other side of the door and the door can only be opened by a trigger volume on the same side as the waypoint.
Its like he tries, Realises he cant get there and goes into the wait state and then moves on!
Extremely powerful engine!
And just as a treat
WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK 
http://sendvid.com/fm0m9oh8
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Update-
Mostly working on the Dining Room and Library sections although they are far from finished a lot of work has been done with lighting.
My favourite screenshot of they day
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Update Day
Been working behind the scenes a lot recently with refactoring and following Sams latest videos .
Spotted future issues in that we cant do the UI like we did in battle tank and this creates a major stumbling block at the moment. (Hopefully this will tie in with the health and damage lectures to come)
Started playing with the sequencer and made the first cut scene. (Video below)
The sequencer as yet still does not export sounds sadly and is on their to do list (Video is from in game so has sounds)
Player gets knocked out.
http://sendvid.com/fyxlm0ny
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I have since got the video sequence to end at the floor and load the next level/sequence rather than respawning the player. (oops)
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It is Looking very good so far @Marc_Carlyon! looking forward into playing it!
Just a question, what is knocking the player out ?
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Unconscious, The player got hit in the back of the head and leaned forward, sways a bit then falls to the floor
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Update
Added fade to the level sequence and destroyed the actor so gun is not appearing in the scene.
Had to set up a ResetFade level squence for the start menu to turn off the fade applied else everything is black.
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That’s looking really good… definitely has the feeling of being knocked out…
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Game Dev Update.
Taken a little hiatus due to kids being sick at present. (Just so you know i havent abandoned the project just delayed a bit)
Minor graphical fixes.
In the last video forgot i added placemarkers added for UI although i could do the health and damage system from this it would be blueprint and prefer to see what Sam does with it first.
Level design on hold as wondering if a transistion scene is needed to expand existing map before moving to new area. (Ie hotel rooms loaded in a level seperate rather than tagged on to the existing map.)
Will be pushing more from Tuesday onwards (Kids health depending)
I like the sound of that
I was going to say yesterday, but refrained in case I was suggesting things that were too complex, but now you’ve mentioned that… hehe… Not sure what the story is etc, but I’m guessing something along the lines of, “wake up, in a strange place, try to escape” (massively overly simplified nutshell version!)… just struck me yesterday that you video of being knocked unconscious would be quite interesting as a “how the story starts” type of video… maybe quite happily walking in some nice woodland area or whatever… here something… stop, look around… nothing… go again… hear the noise again… stop… look around… still nothing… then on the third time… thwack… fade to black… wake up in your first level
Just an idea… not really part of the game play as such but was inspired from your video content above
I think you have a pretty good read on me and game design lol.
My intentions are to expand what i have but not progress much into a new area and yes the being knocked out is the link to that.
I plan to do the transistions to the hotel rooms with puzzles to get to the final area and leave it at that as the alpha test/demo.
I am being a little tight lipped on storyline here but i have a cunning plan
Fully understand, no worries, I appreciate people don’t always like to give too much of their ideas away. Really like the sound of feel of what you are doing though, looking forwards to having a go in due course
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New update video!
Bugs to fix but waiting on Sam a little here (crouch is now a pain as it broke as did the flashlight as attached to gun.)
Gun and arms can push though walls (annoying)
Aiming needs to be fixed.
Hope you enjoy what i have so far