Bathing Minigame + Materials

I scripted the bathing and hair dying minigame, timer, UI buttons, created the materials for the art assets, created the water, bubble, hair poof, and sparkle vfx. We learned during our research phase that dye and lye mixtures were used to add color to or bleach facial and head hair by the vikings, To simulate this, I added a dynamic parameter to control the color of the hair material but clamped it to ensure that the color remained within a realistic range.

To make the mud material be able to get washed off using the bucket, I used a lerp function to have the material go from full opacity to zero opacity, passed through a procedurally created noise map in Substance Designer. Collision settings were set so if the bucket is activated outside of the character’s collision, the mud would stop washing away.

A similar setup was created for the grime to be washed off with lye soap, to simulate suds cleaning away the caked-on dirt beneath the mud layer.

Certain conditions were set to trigger the various VFX, such as hitting a certain cleanliness level for the sparkles, activating the bucket with right click for the water particles, and the comb and lye soap colliding with the player collision for the hair poof and bubbles.