Interactive Environments and Level Design – Asset List

• Lamp Post
• Carts
• Bikes
• Rubbish/Litter
• Bins
• Signs
• Sandwich Board
• Manure
• Hay Bales
• Show Shiner
• Post Box
• Coal Guy
• Telephone Box
• Pigeons
• Seagulls
• Dogs
• Cats
• People
• Street Sweeper
• Debris
• Guy in box selling papers
• Chestnut cart
• Homeless
• Benches
• Information Board
• Street Vendors
• Sewer Grates
• Pot Holes
• Manhole Covers
• Kids Playing
• Cardboard Boxes
• Trees
• Cleaners
• Buckets
• Barrels

Interactive Environments and Level Design – Group Meeting

Topic of Discussion – Assets

Asset List on Basecamp

Ridiculous Quests (Also Known as ‘Fetch Quests’

Character – Historical Researcher

Game Mechanics

• Discovery
• Reward
• Achievement

 

Interactive Environments and Level Design – Lesson Notes

‘A modular environment is an environment built out of reusable textures and models.’

Texture Atlas?

Using vertex colours – painting/tint geometry.

Use vertex materials for damage

[Theory: Efficient planning for modular environments]

Separate textures – major, minor, decals

Vertex Blending?

Floating plane with alpha map

Light maps?

PBR Workflow (Physically Based Rendering)

Video 1 – Texture Maps Explained – PBR Workflow (Physically Based Rendering).

• First image (texture cube) features a base colour, metallic, roughness, normal, height and ambient occlusion.
• Base Colour/Albedo/Diffuse – The literal colour of areas on a given space of your textures.
• Cube without base colour is just white.
• Metallic – The ability of your surface to reflect the imagery around it.
• If material is not too reflective (brick) the metallic map will be black and if it is reflective it will be white. Can adjust values in Unreal Engine.
• Roughness – The ability of your surface to reflect or absorb white light.
• White = Rough Black = Smooth
• Normals – Determines the illusion of depth and features.
• Height – The fake depth or height of areas on your map. (Bump)
• Parallax Illusion?
• Ambient Occlusion – Determines which areas are inherently darkened to simulate shadows. (Not essential).

Video 2 – Creating a PBR texture for Unreal Engine 4 in GIMP

Interactive Environments and level Design – Ideas List

Heritage Project

Themes

• Action
• Text Based
• Shooter
• Educational
• Action Adventure
• Adventure
• Driving
• Role Playing
• Multiplayer
• Fantasy
• Strategy
• Puzzle
• War Game

People (Sterotypes/job roles)

• Elderly
• Office Worker
• Shop Keeper
• Performer
• Thief
• Tourist
• Mayor
• Fisherman
• Reporter
• Artist
• Doctor
• Trader
• Drunk
• Privileged Class
• Gate Keeper
• Tram Workers
• Fortune Teller
• Children
• Beggar
• Police
• Firemen

Buildings

• Maritime Museum
• Princes Quay
• Jewelers
• Punch Hotel
• Hull City Hall
• Prudential Tower
• Banks?
• Empty Building
• Cafe Nero

 

Interactive Environments and Level Design – 3D

Tasks given

Harry langddon – The Puynch Hotel

Sam McNeil – Cafe Nero

Matthew Britchford – Ferens Art Gallery

Hannah Bales – Hull City Hall

Kyle Agnew – Maritime Museum

John Ovington – William Wilberforce Statue

Sam Akester – Prudential Tower

Harry Javan – Empty Building

 

 

 

3D Programs

3DS Max 2016

Unreal Engine Version 4.13.0

Mudbox/Zbrush

Photoshop

Substance – Painter, Designer, Bitmap2Material

Crazybump/Quixel Suite

Mixamo

Marvelous Designer

Make Human

Marmoset Toolbag

Creative Futures – Lesson Notes

• Vertex Painting
• Occlusion Culling
• Modeler Workflow

Define 3D Modelling Terms

Source Control

Github

Creative Futures – Tech Skills – Portfolio, research job sites, small client projects, making my own website, glossary, discussions, paperwork.

Paperwork – Disclosure Forms, model sheets, credits list, bibliography, signatures etc.

Look at the British Film Industry.