Second year, week one!
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*gently dusts off blog* Hello everyone, I’m back! I have to admit I didn’t do much during the summer, and it feels a bit strange to be back here. It kind of feels like I was never away. But mostly in a good way! So, this has been my first week of the second year. It’s been a gentle start mostly, which suited me fine. The most interesting part has been finally getting into 3D. We are using 3ds Max as our program of choice and the two classes we have had this week have been very basic. We started off going through what some buttons do and some keyboard shortcuts, and then we started making basic shapes.
After that we started putting the shapes together.
Now, the parts of this desk don’t actually fit together. They are loose and can be dragged away individually. I think we’ll learn how to actually put things together next week, though I’ll probably try it on my own before then! After getting started in 3ds Max we tried Unreal Engine 4, which is free for anyone to download and use. We tried making shapes in Unreal as well, because our teacher wanted us to understand that most 3D programs are very similar and have similar functions. However, 3ds Max is more useful for modeling complex forms and Unreal is better suited for quickly trying out level designs, as you can easily make 3D environments. We were allowed to just mess around in Unreal, which was fun, and I ended up making this nightmare of a room.
And finally, during the thursday we had a workshop in Advanced Game Design with Marcus where we played a board game called US vs IT. The ”IT” is a robot attacking a city, and the ”US” is a number of tanks trying to stop it. Our task was to change the ”AI” of the robot to make the fight against it as dramatic as possible, which unsurprisingly turned out to be way harder than you’d think.
So this has been my first week of the second year! I’m looking forward to next week, especially to learn more 3D stuff!  |
