Dec 11, 2017

Game Scene - Final Post and Presentation



Here is our group's final submission for the project. It took a lot of time and effort. The scene contains four buildings. Three buildings are taken from a town called Lurelin in the video game Legend of Zelda: Breath of the WIld. They have a somewhat tropical, beachside theme. My building is a generic stable for horses that is found in many spots around the game world, as there wasn't any other unique buildings I could create.



To create our models and UV meshes, our group used the Maya 3D software. I personally used Photoshop to make textures for the various parts of my structure, though I can't speak for my group members whether they only used Photoshop. After the completion of our group's work, we placed our individual pieces into a game scene in Unity to allow ourselves to 'physically' walk around and look at them fully rendered for any mistakes.


My original complete model had a lot of open spaces that I didn't fully realize would be completely see-through when placed into a game engine like Unity. I then had to go around and combine lots of vertices to close those spaces, as well as create new geometry where there was only a one-sided faces. I also made the horse structure a little less wide because I thought it was just too fat.



I had a tough time making textures for my model.The model it is based off of is quite complicated, and my limited poly count prevented me from representing many of the features present. Essentially, I had to swallow a big heaping of guilt at not getting things accurate and just get something done. I have 2 full complete texture maps, along with 2 bump maps and, though not used, 2 normal maps.



In the end, our group worked well. Each member did what was required, and turned in great material. Except for me, whose model didn't really fit the theme of the project and didn't have very good textures.