Description

Cyberball MOTHER: is a big ball drone that leads smaller balls flock. This relations is important for both sides. Mother gives(feeds) energy to smaller balls and as answer smaller balls covers surface of mother. this works for both defence and mobility. if she wants, mother can live long time without contacting to ground. it means comfort and safety.

Balls acts as one big ball when covering mother. can roll, jump and do other things. also can be in relaxed state that allows balls move-roll individually and they follows mother.

Asset can be used as character, minion, companion, enemy, weapon, robo-parasite or even decoration of sci fi interiors. also have big potential for robotic-puzzle games.

Backstory:

CyberBalls are small individual balls that shares (or creates) a collective AI. This upper mind is also recognizes itself as a big ball. (so predictable) They can roll as big ball or can relax their magnetic connections and can move as individs. in both cases they are very usefull for many things. from assasinations to espionage they can do many different tasks. Also they can be a good helpfull companion or a terrible hacker-parasyte for other robot.

CyberBall: Mother preview video

Playable DEMO

important to know: 

– All previews are rendered in unreal engine 5.

– Lumen is enabled for better visuals in UE5. Lumen documentation

– Physics are different in UE5 because of physics engine change. PhysX and Chaos Physics Systems 

Technical Details

– Electric connections

– Physically dynamic balls

– Mesh with clear topology

– Advanced materials for balls and electric.

– Mixable emission effects: pulse and wave

– Realistic PBR

– Ball skins for big and small balls.

Rigged: Yes

Rigged to Epic skeleton: No

Animated: Yes

Number of Animations: 40

Animation types: In-place

Number of characters: 1

Vertex counts of characters: 18.268 vertices, 20.644 vertices with electric

Number of Materials and Material Instances: 3

Number of Textures: 36

Texture Resolutions: 2048×2048 & 4096×4096

Tested on: Windows 10

Supported Engine Versions

4.26 – 4.27, 5.0 – 5.3