The Sunken Athenaeum

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1. ☆ Anatomy of the Deep: Entities & Components Mastery scene-graph

   Student can create entities, attach/get components failably, and reason about the simulation entity tree beyond the intro level.

   🏗️ Builds: Foundation for every Athenaeum entity: relics, pedestals, guardian

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2. ☆ Forge a Custom Component: relic_component scene-graph

   Student can author a custom Verse component (fields, OnBegin/OnSimulate, per-entity data) and add it to entities at edit- and run-time.

   🏗️ Builds: relic_component: carries relic ID, value, banked-state on every treasure entity

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3. ☆ Currents and Coordinates: Hierarchy & Transforms scene-graph

   Student can parent/unparent entities and manipulate local vs global transforms (translate/rotate/scale) through the hierarchy.

   🏗️ Builds: Pedestal sockets: banked relics parent to their pedestal and inherit its transform

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4. ☆ The Swimming Relic: Animate-to-Targets Component animation

   Student can build a reusable component that eases an entity through keyframed target transforms over time (the scene-graph animation pattern above MoveTo/prop_mover).

   🏗️ Builds: Banked relics SWIM along a spline of targets to their Athenaeum pedestal

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5. ☆ Dress the Deep: Custom Asset Components (Mesh, VFX, SFX) scene-graph

   Student can attach and drive mesh_component, particle/VFX and sound components from Verse so an entity looks, glows and sounds alive.

   🏗️ Builds: Relic presentation: glowing mesh, bubble-trail VFX, sonar-ping SFX on proximity

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6. ☆ Skeletal Mesh Components & Animation Playback animation

   Student can add a skeletal mesh component to a scene-graph entity and play/blend skeletal animations from Verse — the step between ease/prop animation and control rig.

   🏗️ Builds: The Athenaeum guardian's swim/idle skeletal animations before control-rig takes over

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7. ☆ Lights of the Athenaeum: Cinematic Sequencer cinematics

   Student can author a Level Sequence in Sequencer (camera cuts, prop tracks) and play/stop/scrub it per-player from Verse via cinematic_sequence_device.

   🏗️ Builds: The vault-opening cutscene when the final relic is banked

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8. ☆ The Hidden Wing: Data Layers Reveal cinematics

   Student can organize content into World Partition data layers and activate/deactivate them at runtime (via sequencer/device) to reveal the inner Athenaeum.

   🏗️ Builds: The sealed inner library wing that materializes when all pedestals are filled

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9. ☆ Warden of the Depths: Advanced NPC Behavior npc

   Student can author a custom npc_behavior Verse class with a patrol/chase/return state machine, spawn it via npc_spawner_device, and react to perception.

   🏗️ Builds: The kraken-guardian NPC that patrols the Athenaeum and chases relic carriers

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10. ☆ Puppet the Kraken: Animation up to CONTROL RIG animation

    Student can rig a skeletal mesh with Control Rig, keyframe rig controls in Sequencer, and trigger the rig-driven animation in-game — the summit of the island's animation arc.

    🏗️ Builds: The kraken guardian's tentacle-sweep animation in the victory cutscene and its idle sway in-world

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11. ☆ CAPSTONE: Athenaeum Depths scene-graph

    Student ships the full two-phase minigame: the device-driven Sunken Dive Round fused with the scene-graph relic economy, sequencer/data-layer reveal, control-rig kraken and persistent progress.

    🏗️ Builds: THE capstone — the shippable UEFN island launched from the AweShucks Town matchmaking portal

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