Bex: 2012

Monday, 15 October 2012

Video

http://youtu.be/xfIOIhzUmEQ

Music: Citizen Nyx - Undercover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfIOIhzUmEQ&feature=youtu.be

The video was saved as HD but looks a bit less quality in Youtube?

Beginnings of the movie

First time having a go with Movie Maker
Played with some transition effects and chose the face out from black when it jumps to the next scene

I added music to my movie and made that fade out towards the end as well
The song I chose is a jazz piece I got from http://dig.ccmixter.org/music_for_film_and_video which was from a link off the Creative Commons site

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Gaming details

I figured out how to get rid of all the gaming info:
Lettering in the right hand corner     ~, r_displayinfo 0
Game info                                        ~, g_showhud 0
Hands and gun                                ~, r_nodrawnear=1

More screen shots

Movement 1

Movement 2

Still deciding whether to have the scene at night time so the lights create different shadows or have it in the light to see the textures better.

Monday, 1 October 2012

Rotate and move in a direction

I wanted to make this centre window shape go up but rotate at the same time. I managed to finally do this by creating a simple movement flowgraph and then add a rotation movement by itself and it does exactly what I wanted it to do.

Sunday, 30 September 2012

Rotating an object on its centre point

I spent ages trying to figure out how to rotate one object on its centre point and finally figured out how to use a tag point to make that work. I also found out that the flow graph doesn't have to be complicated at all and is actually really simple.

Monday, 24 September 2012

Underwater lighting

I thought I'd play with the lighting underwater so I can make up my mind whether I want to keep the water or not. I do think the water works well with my model but I'm still going to think about it.

Creating a Flow Graph

I created my first flow graph to enable the stack of triangles to the right to move upwards 5 metres and it works!

Creating a spawning point

100 Words

I was thinking about using a lot of rotation for my movement in my model. I want to try make the stacks of triangles move through the insides of the square parts of the models and have the square parts spinning around. I think the industrial sort of textures suit my model the best and will stick to those but continue to look for different options.
I also want to add much more lighting but keep it suttle and kind of hidden so I can have a lot but not so it washes everything out. Keepint the background very black would help bring out interesting shadows.

More trials and the 3 I would have liked to have used for Mid Review

These are the 3 I would have liked to pick for the mid review. They show good and different lighting and have different textures.

Mid Review

I was disappointed with my images I chose for mid review because I had only started to figure out how to play with lighting. I liked the angles I chose though. I want to try out different textures as well because I think the white cracks over the whole thing isn't interesting enough.

Adding lights

I also had trouble adding lights, I was following the tutorial but they wouldn't drag in, I finally got one to work and played with colour since my texture was white.