Texturing & Environment Design

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Outdoor 3D game environment

Due April 26th

1-3 group members

This post will be updated and specifics could change.

Requirements

High-poly centerpiece(s) modeled & textured

Low-poly supporting objects modeled & textured

Animated camera (5-15 seconds moving shot)

Terrain: sculpted & painted with 3+ repeating textures

Foliage (grass, bushes, & trees come with Unity Standard Assets Environment Package) rocks, rubble, etc

Tech Specs

Turn in an .EXE file

Post Processing Behavior setup

Color Space = Linear

Rendering Path = Deferred

Tonemapper = Filmic (ACES)

Bonus

Add animated characters (2D or 3D)

Add your names in the Unity UI or world space (be subtle)

Description

Outdoor 3D scene should include a foreground with 1 or more centerpiece objects that use high-poly modeling techniques and are lit using 3-point lighting; and a background made up of 4 or more supporting objects that use low-poly modeling techniques lit with skybox, directional light, etc.

Animate a simple camera movement like a crane, pan, or truck, 5-10 seconds.

Example ideas:

Bench in a park (foreground) with city skyline in background

Escape pod (foreground) with crashed ship in background

Battering ram at city gate (foreground) with castle in background

Spaceship on landing pad (foreground) with alien city in background

Gypsy wagon (foreground) with carnival in background

Fountain (foreground) with village in background

Pirate ship (foreground) with port-city in background

Ruined city gate (foreground) with ancient temple in background

Space station (foreground) with planets & galaxies in background

Cemetery (foreground) with haunted mansion in background

Expensive car (foreground) with fancy hotel complex in background

Wrecked car (foreground) with post-apocalyptic city in background

Turn your scene up to 11!

Please post a render of your centerpiece object along with the textures as images to your Tumblr.

1. Go to the Services tab and turn on the the collaboration feature

2. Once it’s activated a number of other features will open up under it.

3. In those other options you can be able to have others access your scene through clicking Publish> “Open the Collab tool bar” or you can go to the top right of the screen and click the Collab button to drop down the menu

4. Once you click either/or a comment box will open up along with your everything you have in your scene as well as the “publish” option. Type a short sentence or give a little detail of what your scene is or just put the title of what your scene is and click publish.

5. Once everything is loaded(make sure you are in the services tab or go back to it) click the “back to services” on the collaboration window 

6. Then go to Member> add the email address of the one you are going to collaborate with and click invite.

How Others Can Access Your Scene

1. When your collaborator opens unity they will see an invite or a new scene on their main menu

2. Click on the scene; They will have to set where they want to have the file saved. Then turn on the Collaboration Feature

3. You might have to sign in again. Then under the drop down menu of the Collab button or Window click “update” and the scene will load on your file.

Finished…..

*When ever you make changes to your scene you have to go to the collab button then type in whatever changes you made and click publish. The other person will get a notification so they can update their scene……

As you’ve noticed, the school’s Maya 2017 license is expiring before the end of the semester, so IT staff will be installing Maya 2018 on the computers this week.