Unreal Engine Project Sentinel Dev Log 4 | Materials, Props & Level Layout Progress

In this fourth development log, I continue work on Project Sentinel, a university game development project built in Unreal Engine 5.

The game follows a rogue sentinel robot escaping from a mysterious factory controlled by a crazed AI. My goal is to build a short but engaging gameplay experience featuring traps, platforming, and a final boss encounter.

In this episode, I demonstrate several new additions created during class sessions and continued progress on the level layout:

Creating metallic and emissive materials, and using them to build material instances

Adjusting colour variations for the player character and pipes in the level

Building a new prop — deactivated sentinels with red emissive faceplates, suspended on poles and moving along a conveyor

Adding sound effects to doors for improved feedback

Completing the level skeleton layout using the procedural tools from earlier dev logs

🎮 All narration, gameplay, and audio are my own.

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