3D Computer Graphics I: Week 6

During class this week we have been working on the concepts for our third assignment. Now we will be making characters, so they need a lot of back story and personalities to justify why they look the way they do. Of course, they also need a world to live in. Since this class is focused on 3D, we were given the freedom to either create a concept of our own or find something that already exists, be it from a […]

First look at basic GDI graphics programming

One of the courses that I’m currently studying is called  Advanced C++ for Games II, where we are currently working with GDI for rendering of simple programs that will eventually develop into a racing game. GDI is a core component of the Windows operating system, where it handles simple rendering onto devices such as monitors.
So far we have only worked with various things related to the very basics of 3D-rendering, drawing triangles. And why is that? The reason is because a […]

Art Time!

Today I have been drawing all day! While listening to 80’s, Hans Zimmer and Disney soundtrack these three drawings occured 🙂 The music really seems to inspire me in many different ways.

Concept challenge: Arkan Rise

Last week we got a concept challenge. We had to go to a random character generator and create a concept for a game from that.
We used ”They fight crime” to generate ours.
“He’s a suicidal devious master criminal with no name. She’s a wealthy gold-digging femme fatale from aristocratic European stock.”
Starting out with an idea. We got the idea of a steampunk world for these characters and started building our story from there.
At first we needed to […]

Concept challenge: Arkan Rise

Last week we got a concept challenge. We had to go to a random character generator and create a concept for a game from that.
We used ”They fight crime” to generate ours.
“He’s a suicidal devious master criminal with no name. She’s a wealthy gold-digging femme fatale from aristocratic European stock.”
Starting out with an idea. We got the idea of a steampunk world for these characters and started building our story from there.
At first we needed to […]

3D Computer Graphics I: Assignment 2 Update – Final textures

After several days of hard work I have what could be viewed as the final product of the second assignment. Since the dead line still is in a week from now, I can imagine that there will be some tweaking until hand in. This is what it looks like now, at least.

in 3dsMax

In UDK, not in the very best lighting though

Diffuse Map

Specular Map. I might increase the brightness slightly until hand in.

Normal Map

3D I, Week 6, Part 2: Assignment 3, Character

In this blog post I will detail the character I have been assigned to model for Assignment 3. This character was designed and written by Camilla Jacobsen.

Character
The character I will be modeling is a young boy around the age of 7 or 8 named William. He is the oldest son of a lord, and serves as a page for a knight.
William is an energetic boy who loves swordfighting and playing with the other kids around the castle. He […]

3D Computer Graphics I: Assignment 2 Update – Final textures

After several days of hard work I have what could be viewed as the final product of the second assignment. Since the dead line still is in a week from now, I can imagine that there will be some tweaking until hand in. This is what it looks like now, at least.

in 3dsMax

In UDK, not in the very best lighting though

Diffuse Map

Specular Map. I might increase the brightness slightly until hand in.

Normal Map

Essay assignment: Impending Doom

Two weeks ago we received our first proper writing assignment in the game analysis course. We were to hand in an essay on a game concept with the theme “Impending Doom”.
This is how the assignment was explained to us:

Our essay had to include descriptions of gameplay and setting.
We had to explain our design decisions and why we thought those were the best.
The essay should focus on gameplay and how the sense of impeding doom was conveyed, not narrative or background.
We had […]

3D – Week 5 – Assignment 2 update

Here we go, finally an update on Assignment 2. I feel that I’m about a week behind schedule, but I’m trying and working as hard as I can to catch up again. This will be a short update, just to show you how far I’ve come. As mentioned in one of my last blogposts, I’ve been stupidly busy lately with many different assignments at once. For this assignment (Assignment 2 in the 3D1 course) we were tasked with modelling real-life […]

3D Week 06 – Assignment 2: part 3

Hi everybody!
This is the final update on the Assignment 2, just to show everyone how it turned out.
Tris count: 993
Texture size: 1024 * 1024
 
Hey ho, let’s go!
These are screenshots of the dagger/knife in UDK:

This is how it looks in 3DS max:

This is how the diffuse map looks like:

And this is how the specular map turned out:

And this is the normal map:

That’s it! Moving on to the assignment 3. See ya’ there!
-Lui

3D Week 06 – Assignment 2: part 3

Hi everybody!
This is the final update on the Assignment 2, just to show everyone how it turned out.
Tris count: 993
Texture size: 1024 * 1024
 
Hey ho, let’s go!
These are screenshots of the dagger/knife in UDK:

This is how it looks in 3DS max:

This is how the diffuse map looks like:

And this is how the specular map turned out:

And this is the normal map:

That’s it! Moving on to the assignment 3. See ya’ there!
-Lui