All the good stuff
2017
And so it begins... This is the van we'll be doing up an hopefully living in for a while next year.
I can't do anything without modelling up a plan in 3D first.
Today I started work on the van... How exciting! Even though it commenced with one of the least glamorous of jobs - cleaning the roof - it was still great.
They said it wouldn't rain. It rained.
Can you feel it?
Out with the rotten ply floor boards, in with the decking timber.
2018
I finally got around to starting the insulation - only 2 months behind schedule!
With the Luton box insulation finished, I continued working along the ceiling, cutting 50mm polystyrene rectangles to slot in between the batten wood I fixed in place previously.
Having finished the ceiling insulation, I decided to do the floor next before I start the walls, the reason being it makes more sense for the wall insulation and cladding to rest on top of the ply lined floor.
It took all of 5 minutes to lay down the 3m x 2m wood effect vinyl sheet.
I'm no carpenter, so rather than putting together some wobbly wooden structures, I took the easy option and used some lightweight racking.
The next job is to install the leisure battery and mains hookup so we have power in the back for lighting and charging.
To keep power usage down, USB sockets will provide power for lighting.
I've wired in a car radiator fan to provide ventilation at the front of the van.
Trudge on.
Started building the back wall.
I bought an old stable door without measuring the gap first. Foolish.
Behold, racking transforms into a kitchen before your very eyes.
I'm currently sat on a little sofa next to Laurel, in our van, which is parked on the island of Mosterøy, Norway.
Mood boards Cinematography Study lighting GDC talks GDC flipped normals transparency First project 2 room map for mobile top down don't have any transparency Think about what to create, do what you like Finish art bible by Friday Blockout wk2 Rewind - VR experiences MA - Assignment1 - Mobile Photoshop New > Check 'Artboards' Alt click drag > new layer Art Bible exercise (Red Sky in the Morning) Started Maya for first time MAYA: Maya units are cm but UE4 uses world units so change grid settings Display > Grid (click white square) If maya crashes and you can't reopen, Documents > maya > [YEAR] << delete this folder and open Maya.
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As a beginner to Maya and UE4, week one has been information overload however Christian will be recapping over topics regularly over the coming weeks.
Model something every day - Kristian Avigni, 2018 In keeping with this quote I will be modelling something every day.
My first assignment is to design an area for a level in a game, to be run on a mobile device.
We started off the week with a review of our art bibles for the first module project.
Mesh modelling tutorials Booleans (Intersection and Union) Improving geometry by removing triangles IMPORTANT: Ctrl + Del on Edges to delete vertices as well, otherwise you will be left with floating vertices Target weld to merge vertices and make geometry more efficient Display > Polygons > Custom Polygon Display.
The level will feature a variety of re-usable and some one-off assets. I will be using my experience of modelling in 3D Studio Max combined with recent skills learned in the classroom with Maya to produce some simple, low-polygon assets which keep the level within the 120k triangle limit.
Unreal materials Texture Coordinates node: plug this into a texture's UV input to change the amount of tiling.
Lighting The image shows the basic light setup for a new level. Directional light: Onle angle matters.
Assignment3_4.
Zbrush Alt + Click on object : select that sub tool Brush Alt + click drag : opposite effect / different effect (e.
Michael Pavlovich tutorials Baking in Maya Bevel edges without chamfer Choose Rendering from TL dropdown Tangent space - different for different software Tangent space is same as relative space, as opposed to World space Mikkt tangent space - look up Mikktspace workflow Crucial - make sure to triangulate is checked at first export because different software triangulates in different directions UV Smoothing groups Seams appear on UV shell sides because direction of light rays Harden all V borders, Soften all others Set hard and soft edges script HardEdges Use this MEL script to create a custom shelf command which you can apply to any primitive Naming convention baking Put meshes into groups of low and high: Zbrush A really nice workflow to get meshes from Zbrush baked Polygroups > Group by normals then Geometry > Crease > Crease PG (Crease by polygroups) Subdivide as much as required Do some sculpting! Del Lower Then Geometry > Dynamesh > change resolution to whatever is needed (eg 1024) Dynamesh evenly distributes polygons as much as possible across the whole mesh Decimate and bake!.