Semester Wrap-Up! The Battle-zone Colab.

As the video says, I was the modeler. It got to a point where I was almost throwing the models out for my partner Brett to fix and purtify. Good job Brett, it was fun and I'm liking how the scene turned out!

CryEngine

So Tiring.

Tutorials: Quite exhausting

I've done as mush as I can on the tutorials. Some objects keep dissappearing whenever I open a file, and my fog doesn't work. But I have rain. Now I'm going to work on my other finals before I go Kaput.
The house also disappeared, CryEngine is a cruel and confusing thing, is it someone's Ex-Girlfriend?

The Cabin in the woods

I've gone and thrown in the cabin and more veggies and such. Things happened, objects needed replacing (because I loaded his files, and he apparently used stuff that our cryengine's don't have)
Lesson 16 down, let's see how far I get before other assignments crash upon my puny skull.

Veggie Tales

I'm starting on the vegetation. X-Trees looks kind of interesting. Lesson 13.

Crying Lesson 10

Lots of painting, lots of shaping, lots of time.

CryEngine Lesson 8

Lesson 8. Things keep glitching, but I'm suffering through it.

Begginings of CryEngine and many sleepless nights

I managed to get up to lesson 5 in CryEngine during my workshift, and although it is a beautiful looking program I fear I won't have time to enjoy it.

Update of items!

So I cranked out all of these items (mostly untextured, because I HATE texturing) today, and am now exhausted. I'm not sure if I'll be able to handle 7 art projects, 2 tests, and the tutorials. Wish me as much luck as you can, I'm gonna need it.

I don't quite know how to do strings, so let's see if I figure out an easy way or do it the hard way.

I think my Rubix Cube looks mighty awesome!

Progress on making stuff

So I've been piecing stuff together and slightly editing other stuff, here's what I have so far:

 

 

Nothing is textured or too detailed, because I am terrible at that and will (hopefully) be back to it soonish. some objects will be duplicated.

Tank without Chain

Later on I'll come in and make a chain to link the wheels, but for now I should jump to a bed and such.

Some tank research

So here's some of the images I was looking at when researching toy tanks for battlezone.
-toy tanks
-toy robots
-Ghost in the shell Tachikomas (spider tanks)

A toy bear! Er.. maybe pig.

So I was going to make a little toy bear to have in the background. Why? What little kid grew up without a teddy bear? Well, it turns out that I evoked my inner pig, not bear. So here's my progress on that as of now.

Modeling of our tanks - Round 1

So I've started on modeling the tanks. I have the first one up to a default mesh and some shaping of the top piece.

Here's a link to the tutorial series I'm using. I plan to build a default mesh and then modify the tanks based on what genre they will be from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf-i4bjp0Z4

Toybox Battlezone!

So Brett and I are hoping to make battlezone into a more toyboxy/toy story like way. I've gone and made a VERY rough graybox of what it'll look like. The ball is a ball, probably a basketball, that will have rigidbody and may move upon being shot. We'll see. the blocks making a pattern is a rough idea of blocking in the battlezone, and the blocks inside of said battlezone will be random modeled toys. There will be at least 1 modeled train lying around as cover. I also want to add a barrel of monkeys, and plan to use the alphabet blocks as both a battlezone divider and as makeshift credits. The highlighted object in the center is the first person camera, just so you know.

Tips lesson 17 cloth

I feel sufficiently prepared to start tearing some cloth.

Tips Lesson 16

Cubed Textures. Awesome. I had seen the examples and wondered how they did that, now I'm happy.

Tips Lesson 15 - Rendering Modes

Alpha - spot little hiccups with black space seeping into level's white space.
Overdraw - Spot things that may need to be culled.
Mipmaps - Show areas with too much resolution or not enough resolution. Red = Too much, Blue = Too Little.