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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.

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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.

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Zbrush Alt + Click on object : select that sub tool   Brush Alt + click drag : opposite effect / different effect (e.

Zbrush basics This week I worked on a skull on a table scene, to introduce the most common features of ZBrush.

A week of baking!

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Substance Designer Always set new substance to Relative to Parent Set graph to 256x256 so the SD plugin works in UE4 Always good to create the height map in SD first, then colourise it Press 1 or 3 to toggle node output collapse   https://share.

Explored Substance Designer in detail including how to generate Ambient Occlusion outputs from height maps.

UE4 Materials Ctrl and click node connections to disconnect all and reconnect to something else Heightmaps need to be minimum 0.

Dug deeper into Unreal Engine's powerful materials builder, including building materials which can be used in conjunction with vertex painting to create variation over surfaces.

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