Meeting at TOW each morning:
Friday 1st@ 8:00 - Stephan, Dries, Duncan, Jon, Werner
Saturday 2nd@ 7:30 - Stephan, Ben, Chantelle, Jon, Mareli, Stefan
Sunday 3rd@ 8:30 - Hendre, Jon, Louwrens, William, Stephan will arrive later.
If its easier for you to meet us at the Coca-Cola Dome please leave a comment on the blog, or sms if you need to cancel so that we don't have to wait for you.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Game Lecture for rAge
Aaargh, mateys!
There be a game lecture on Tuesday from 1:30 until... whenever we finish getting our stuff together! See you there.
(Also, I've got the top-down view working and all that - even though it means you can no longer shoot - so we'll be able to use UDK to preview all of our level stuff, including baking lightmaps and collision. For collision to work without my having to fiddle around with it a lot, please make a collision mesh for each object in your level that requires collision. So, for example, if you have a bench, and it's called "SuperBench", then you would create a box that surrounds the bench, and call it "UCX_SuperBench". UDK automatically detects the naming upon import and creates the collision stuff.
Note that your collision mesh needs to be made up of convex objects. If you don't know what that means, just build the mesh out of boxes. Otherwise, I can walk you through it all on Tuesday too.)
There be a game lecture on Tuesday from 1:30 until... whenever we finish getting our stuff together! See you there.
(Also, I've got the top-down view working and all that - even though it means you can no longer shoot - so we'll be able to use UDK to preview all of our level stuff, including baking lightmaps and collision. For collision to work without my having to fiddle around with it a lot, please make a collision mesh for each object in your level that requires collision. So, for example, if you have a bench, and it's called "SuperBench", then you would create a box that surrounds the bench, and call it "UCX_SuperBench". UDK automatically detects the naming upon import and creates the collision stuff.
Note that your collision mesh needs to be made up of convex objects. If you don't know what that means, just build the mesh out of boxes. Otherwise, I can walk you through it all on Tuesday too.)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Visualization Techniques 2 (AV)
I've heard via Stephan that Dalene is allowing the AV students to pick whatever medium they wish.
Thank you to those who've been involved in organising this. :)
Thank you to those who've been involved in organising this. :)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Happy Friday!
CrazyBump is widely known as being the software to use for creating 2D maps. It allows you to generate a bunch of believable height/display/normal/etc. maps, and drag sliders while seeing what effect they'll give you in an awesome preview window. (It's kind of similar to the nVidia plugin for PS... but much, much more.) Awesome for turning simple photos into full 3D materials. The full price is in the region of 300USD...
(For making maps from 3D meshes, i.e. baking a high poly down to a low poly mesh, xNormal's pretty much the standard. It's accurate, customisable, fast. And it's free. The interface is just rather ugly.)
Also, Softimage 2011.5 has been announced, and includes, among other things, Lagoa physics, "ICE for Artists" (lol?), MatchMover (previously bundled with Maya), Composite (bundled with Max) and stereo cameras. And a ViewCube, if you're into that sort of thing. :P Click here to see a more comprehensive (although not exhaustive) list that also includes some videos showing Lagoa in action.
(For making maps from 3D meshes, i.e. baking a high poly down to a low poly mesh, xNormal's pretty much the standard. It's accurate, customisable, fast. And it's free. The interface is just rather ugly.)
Also, Softimage 2011.5 has been announced, and includes, among other things, Lagoa physics, "ICE for Artists" (lol?), MatchMover (previously bundled with Maya), Composite (bundled with Max) and stereo cameras. And a ViewCube, if you're into that sort of thing. :P Click here to see a more comprehensive (although not exhaustive) list that also includes some videos showing Lagoa in action.
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