I wanted to post some videos, images, and presentations from our team milestones. The way it works for our Junior game class is that we have to meet several milestones: game concept, engine proof, first playable, alpha, beta, and gold. These milestones include a presentation in front of the 3 game professors. I think it helps us bring focus and urgency to our games which is nice. So, I'm going to start this post off with our presentation PowerPoint for the game concept milestone!
Game Concept PowerPoint
Friday, March 19, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Learning 3ds Max
At DigiPen we have to take GAT 300, 3d modeling and animation for programmers. I took the class last summer, but I decided to take the class a little bit above and beyond the usual assignment specs. Someday I would really like to become a good artist along with being a good programmer. Eventually I might want to be a Technical Artist, but for now I’ll just focus on programming. I would however like to show my current knowledge of 3ds Max in this post.
The first assignment is the one that I spent the most time on. While the original assignment specifications were to make a simple vehicle from the teacher’s template, I decided to make the vehicle from scratch. Also, the original didn’t include making an interior, so I asked the teacher if I could make one. He approved and gave me a poly limit of 800 instead of 600.
For the assignment I made the model, textures (diffuse, specular, glossiness, opacity, reflection), unwrap, lighting. The only thing I wanted to make, but didn’t have time for, was a bump/normal map. Here are the results:
For the second assignment we had to set the vehicle and the plane, which the teacher provided, to follow a path. We also had to model the island using some of the teacher’s textures. I decided to make a few more custom things using textures from www.cgtextures.com. In the end I made the tree models, island model, the lamp post models, the house models, and created a particle effect for the volcano exploding. I also animated the plane and vehicle.
For the last assignment, the easiest of the three, I had to make a mech, which the teacher modeled and textured, walk. We learned about simple forward animation and inverse kinematics. I was much more impressed with my animations than on my previous assignment.
I think these assignments were a great learning experience because I can now understand more of what an artist goes through.
The first assignment is the one that I spent the most time on. While the original assignment specifications were to make a simple vehicle from the teacher’s template, I decided to make the vehicle from scratch. Also, the original didn’t include making an interior, so I asked the teacher if I could make one. He approved and gave me a poly limit of 800 instead of 600.
For the assignment I made the model, textures (diffuse, specular, glossiness, opacity, reflection), unwrap, lighting. The only thing I wanted to make, but didn’t have time for, was a bump/normal map. Here are the results:
For the second assignment we had to set the vehicle and the plane, which the teacher provided, to follow a path. We also had to model the island using some of the teacher’s textures. I decided to make a few more custom things using textures from www.cgtextures.com. In the end I made the tree models, island model, the lamp post models, the house models, and created a particle effect for the volcano exploding. I also animated the plane and vehicle.
For the last assignment, the easiest of the three, I had to make a mech, which the teacher modeled and textured, walk. We learned about simple forward animation and inverse kinematics. I was much more impressed with my animations than on my previous assignment.
I think these assignments were a great learning experience because I can now understand more of what an artist goes through.
Math 300 Splines
I wanted to show some old projects from school, so I thought I would start with my Math 300 project. The class was about splines and curves. We basically listened to the professor prove formulas for splines; while, for homework we learned the math behind them and then coded projects showing our knowledge. The project goes through different spline types we learned. The project was coded in C#.
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