Week 15 10/18-10/24

In this week my group and I had to get all the stuff together. There were many problems we ran into when putting the file together. One problem involved getting the map to load up even though it we had gotten the map to load up before. Another problem involve the dynamite not showing up when we made the game into an executable. For more information go to: http://aftu.weebly.com/

Week 14 10/11-10/17

In this week I started off by finishing rigging the npc character I had made in week 9. Next, I started creating the female model. I followed the tutorial below for the female part.

http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/female_body/ (Female body)
http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/3d_modeling_of_a_human_head_3ds_max_01.html (Head)

The head wasn't too bad since I had a good visual of the 3D space for the head. The body however, took some time but it ended pretty well for a first time. After I finish modeling the part I wielded the parts together to get this.

Once I got one object I started UV mapping and texturing. Next, I created cloth, boots, and added hair to my female character. While working on the hair, I used plane and added texture to it first, and then I start placing the hair pieces on the head.

Once I got the whole thing texture, I started rigging the model. When I was rigging the model I had the cloth and boots a separate model, the hair a separate model, and the whole body a separate body. It was much more easier to rigged this time because I manage to get the Mirror Mode working.

Week 13 10/4-10/10

This week I had tried out many different things that I have not done in the past weeks. I finish making a laser rifle and a spaceship. I used my rifle I made in week 10 as base reference for the size and shape.

Once I got my outline of the laser rifle I did attach them but I did not start UV mapping them. I created another model that will be only one object base on the outline. I did this to make it easier to UV map the texture.

As shown above is my finish model of the laser rifle and UV map. The reason why I made the rifle white is because before I texture I use this image and created a color outline so it would have been easier to know what spot to be color what and more control.

I created my color outline of the laser rifle in Photoshop. I made used of the layer effect from InnerGlow to get the black outline. Once I got my color outline done I started to texture my model and giving it a specular texture and normal map. Here is my result:

I am almost done with the laser rifle. I had rigged the rifle and imported it into UDK. There I made use of the engine Material Editor to give it a glowing effect when use in game.

Material

Final result

With the spaceship, my group decided to have the spaceship to be a flying saucer. When working on my spaceship I had skip creating a color outline because the shape wasn't really complex, I just had to make sure to UV map it well.

Top view

Bottom view

No Normal Map

 When I had finish modeling and texturing I had imported it into UDK. I did not needed to rigged this time. When working with Material Editor, using what I learn from my laser rifle, I did made the space glow, but I made use of Panner to give my material some animation.

Material

Final result

week 12 9/27-10/3

In this week, my main focus was to finish my enemy model from last week. I manage to finish the enemy model, texturing the enemy model, and rigged the enemy model. When I was modeling the hand and the leg. I had to made sure that my model would match the same style as the model the other alien. So I reuse the parts from the alien model I made in week 2. I made use of the hand and feet, the tail I decided to just make a different tail.

When I was rigging it, I used a biped and some of the stuff I did differently is detaching parts of the body in separate object. The head, arm, spike, shoulder-pad, and tail was part of it own object. This really had made it easier to rigged. One really useful thing I had learned along the way is how to reset the biped position. If you clicked on any part of the biped and go to the motion tab that is between hierarchy and display, go to Copy and Paste, and click on the plus sign if it is not already there. Next, you would need to click on the Disk icon that say "Save Collection". Just save it anywhere you want. Once you do that, the clipboard under it should not be gray out anymore and there should be a "Copy Posture", "Paste Posture", and "Paste Opposite Posture". Now you need to click and highlight on any of the biped either alone or multiple bipeds, and click on Copy Posture. This would add a selection under "Copied Posture". Whenever you want to reset a biped to it original position, just clicked on any biped and under "Copied Posture", make sure it is showing the picture of the biped parts you want to reset to and click on "Paste Posture". This is my result of my rigged:

(Will not be used in game)

Week 11 9/20-9/26

In this week, I finish a good final version of my inventory menu and shop menu that will be use in Beta. I also manage to get them to interact with each other in flash. The only thing left to do is to get them to interact with the game. My next objective with flash would be to create a quest menu.

Another thing I did this week is started creating another alien enemy. Unlike before, this time my group gave me some reference to do. The difficult part is that my group only gave me one picture of the head and the body. I will have to use my imagination to do the rest.

Head

Body

With the image above this is how far I manage to get done during this week.

With the head I just think of it as a left side view and use symmetry to get the other half. With the body, I had  to keep create the arm separate. I had to model a good amount of the body shape and then get rid half of the body. I use the bone tool to skin the half of the body to straighten things out so I can use symmetry to get a good other half of the body. I won't need to use the picture again until I finish a good basic shape of the body, and add feature such as the shoulder spike to my enemy.

Week 10 9/13-9/19

To start off, in this week I manage to finish modeling a repeater rifle, I am also done with our pause menu, and close to being done with the inventory system. For the rifle, I use the link from below to model and texture the rifle.

With this:
http://gunsofold.com/images/FD1253G_winchester_1873.gif

Got this:

With the pause menu, I follow the flow chart below:

The black line mean you can advance to the next square where as the red line mean you can return back to the previous square. Once the confirmation is set to yes, the game will exit.

The image above show the inventory and shop vendor menu I had been working on. The black circle is a cursor I just use to test some stuff out. I use the example from this site: http://www.freeactionscript.com/2008/11/drag-drop-snap-inventory-system-v2/ to get the overall idea on how to create the inventory setup. After showing this to the group, we talked and determine that I will need to make some more adjustment to both of the menu.

week 9 9/5-9/12

The first thing I did after returning from my break is fix some of the bugs involving my models in the game. I started off with my main menu. There wasn't really any major bug with the main menu. Some stuff I fix was re positioning my Return to main Menu button and reprogram to get the following image below.

Old

New

In the old main menu my problem was that it should not had started out on page 2 whenever I would click on the prologue button and the back button would be shown. In the new main menu you can see that the Return to main menu button has been re position and that it would start out on page 1.

My other bugs in the game include re positioning the cross-hair to get the ammo collision be spot on the cross-hair. To fix this would involve more programming wise in unrealscript. I also removed two little hexagon shape on the bottom right of the HUD. Finally I fixed some of the texture in the town so that it wouldn't show any of the UV lines.

Other than the bugs, I had scale the pistol down. Before, it was a little big for the hand. I had also finished creating two new models for this week, an npc and another enemy. Rather than new, I pretty much had to take part of old models and add something new to it, and re-texture. Right now, what matters in our group is getting a completed game, rather than a polish unfinished one. So if I have to, I will re-use an even older models that I had made.

Npc 1

Enemy 

Week 8 8/29-9/4

In this week, my group and I presented the Alpha phase. I think we did pretty well with our project so far, although there are still a lot of bugs that need to be fix such as Ai path finding. After an unfortunate event with one of our group member, I decided to take a break to release some stress. Our group plan will be to work on the work-statement in the next meeting.

Week 7 8/23-8/28

This is the last week to work on our project for Alpha stage. Because of that, I had to spend more time with my partners in getting all our work up to date. I did manage to make three model for Beta. They are:

Dynamite

Knife

Tool shed

All in all, I believe our game will not go as smooth as expected when our group present in front of the class. Even now, we still have many bugs such as Ai path finding.

Week 6 8/16-8/22

 In this week, I spent most of my time with making models. In continuation from week 3, I gave my level design partner the building to use as reference when he create and place the his building in UDK. As shown below to the left are my partner version of the buildings, where as the right will be the new building that we will use for our game.

                                                                       Wayne Saloon

  Cat House

Jim's Gun Shop

   Sheriff

                                   








Only four building will be use for our town level is what my level design partner had decided. When I created the custom collision for the buildings I used .ASE file rather than .FBX because for some reason, my box collision I place in 3ds Max was not sent through correctly when I imported the meshes into UDK. Other meshes I had made for my level design partner are a wagon and a bench.

One last thing I did this week is rigged my gunsmith model from week 3. It was much easier this time because I had used biped . It not like I hate biped, I prefer to use bone because there are no constraint on the bone when doing animation.

Week 5 8/9-8/15

In this week I spent most of my time getting my Main Menu(as seen from week 2) to work. As shown below is a flow chart on how the Main Menu should work when it is finish. This is only a rough flow chart so there may be change in the future.

I am finish with the "Start New Game" and "Options" section of the flow chart. The "Continue Game" and "Quit" will be added later on when I know my programming partner is ready to add it to the game. It is not needed for Alpha but will definitely be needed for Beta, although "Quit" will probably be added in Alpha.

Other task I complete this week is creating static meshes of: crate,barrel,rocks, and grass. With the grass, I had to create an opacity texture to give my grass texture a transparent background. For my other static meshes I used normal map to give it bumps so that meshes look more realistic.