Thumbnails Assignment

The previous week was the start of the 2D Computer Graphics: Theory and Application 1 course, and one of our first assignments was to choose one out of two game concepts and create twenty character thumbnails fitting in with what we chose. I tried to keep myself within a 10-15 minutes time-frame for each sketch, with a few taking closer to 25 minutes after realising I wanted to take that particular thumbnail in another direction.
The world setting I visualised was […]

Programming update

So here is the finished guessing game. I should have posted it way earlier because it already feels like I could do it better with the knowledge from the first lectures of this week. But I figure this is too basic a game to put any more time into, because regardless how perfect, it will always be a boring game to play.

#include
#include
#include

int random(int min, int max)
{
    return min + (rand() % (max – min + 1));
}

int main(int […]

Programming update

So here is the finished guessing game. I should have posted it way earlier because it already feels like I could do it better with the knowledge from the first lectures of this week. But I figure this is too basic a game to put any more time into, because regardless how perfect, it will always be a boring game to play.

#include
#include
#include

int random(int min, int max)
{
    return min + (rand() % (max – min + 1));
}

int main(int […]

3D – Anatomy knowledge and 3D scanning

I’ve been doing 3D and 2D for about six years now but it was not until a few years ago that I really started thinking more seriously about it. It started out as a hobby when I got involved in the modding community of Warcraft 3. I was always and still am amazed by the user-created content of Warcraft 3. I started out by doing icons for abilities and later moved on to models, this was without no prior knowledge. […]

Nim the Snowman

The background for the winter level of Totemic is complete, as a bonus you get Nim, the snowman. 🙂

Game Programming III – the second week, linked lists part two (2)

 

Hello again.
Let’s continue with our linked list shall we? This post will (hopefully) go through the remaining methods for our linked list and in part three (3) I will make a variant that is generic, so that it can store all types of data, not just integer values. I’ve added a clear method to the class as well as deallocations in the destructor to prevent memory leaks. I should also point out that the methods are not always showing […]

Game Programming III – the second week, linked lists part two (2)

Hello again.
Let’s continue with our linked list shall we? This post will (hopefully) go through the remaining methods for our linked list and in part three (3) I will make a variant that is generic, so that it can store all types of data, not just integer values. I’ve added a clear method to the class as well as deallocations in the destructor to prevent memory leaks. I should also point out that the methods are not always showing […]

Metal Texture

I have been working on a tiled metal texture over the last few days, there are still some problems with the dark patches but it is starting to look pretty good. It has Diffuse, Gloss and Normal maps attached to it and this is how it looks in Unreal 4.

Motion Capture – A Quick Uncharted 3 Animation Analysis

I have chosen to do some research and write about one of my favourites; Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011) and how they used motion capture for some of the animations.
Finding information about the setup was pretty tricky since a lot of the information found was not full explained which lead me on a wild goose chase trying to find out the correct and full story. While some say that Naughty Dog used an in-house studio, others say that they used […]

Motion Capture in Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain used Passive Optical Motion Capture, both for body- and facial capture.
These two were done separately, recording the body capture in one take and the facial capture in a separate take.
Facial capture was most likely not used very heavily in intense action scenes, but rather for the more “intimate” scenes in between when the player gets to see the faces more up-close, inciting an emotional reaction.
I’m not sure how much the method cost Quantic Dream during development, but […]

Motion Capture in Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain used Passive Optical Motion Capture, both for body- and facial capture.
These two were done separately, recording the body capture in one take and the facial capture in a separate take.
Facial capture was most likely not used very heavily in intense action scenes, but rather for the more “intimate” scenes in between when the player gets to see the faces more up-close, inciting an emotional reaction.
I’m not sure how much the method cost Quantic Dream during development, but […]

Totemic Winter Level

Today I have been working on a new level for Totemic, it is a special winter theme for DreamHack Winter that we are leaving for in less than two weeks now. There is still a lot to do on it but it is starting to look pretty cool and we are really excited to show it at DreamHack!