Week 12

Lecture Reflection

Through this week's lecture, I get some idea of abandoned architectures. I suddenly aware that before this lecture, I have paid much attention on just to make the outside of my building looks like it has been damaged, such as ti damage the walls and roof of the building, I got really confused about how to make it better, but from now,  I will focus on more detailed things, such like the inside of the architecture and the texture things, I decide to build some stuff inside such like damaged chairs tables and rotten food, etc. Otherwise, I am going to pay some attention on to construct the environment outside my architecture to add the feelings of a abandoned 100 years city. I am thinking abandoned cars around maybe.

Week 11

Lecture Reflection

Week 10

Lecture Reflection

Week 09

Lecture Reflection

Week 08

Lecture Reflection

Week 07(experiment 2)

Lecture reflection

This week's lecture, there is a brief of the experiment 2, 'Life after people'. After we are gone, what is the left, what would happen to our city, our body or staffs people leave. In experiment 2,  we are going to create architecture model to express the idea of 'life after people'. What I am thinking now is a picture which is a mix of dystopia and utopia,  with animals, grass on abandoned city blocks, trees, high quality and magnificent but damaged buddings, etc.

Week 06

5 Images

Lecture reflection

This week's lecture talked about the movement,  the lecture is good and I have also watched some video tutorials on youtube, I have learned how to use the trailer for our final submission. Otherwise, my own island is finish, I really like it, haha.

Final submission

YOUTUBE LINK: http://youtu.be/T_4ZUFkUcFY

O4 trailer

Week 05

Student name: Mengyao liu

Student No: z3432214

Last letter of last name: "O"
Last number of student ID: "4"

YOUTUBE LINK:
http://youtu.be/PSiMzfC0ldU

Lecture reflection

Today's lecture is going to inspire us in create the letter and number combination.

Strategy embed the "O4" into the island

I have decide to build a forest, roads diverged in this wood to reveal the message of "O4".

Draft island

Week 04

Image from today's lecture:

before

after

new weather

Lecture reflection

In today's lecture, we talked about some elements of environment. I decide to add some fog or rain to my island in order to change the environment and mode of my island. Maybe, I could also change the time of day to get it looks better. 

Week 03

5 Reference images

• Claude Lorrain
  

• William Gilpin

• Capability Brown
  
• Humphrey Repton
  
  
  
• JMW Turner

• Chinese garden

My custom island

Lecture reflection

In this week's lecture, we talked about the picturesque, including thinking about the terrain's vegetation, such as trees and gras; division of ground views, etc. I have considered new texture style to my island and I have also learned to use the fraps to take high resolution screenshots.

Week 02

5 Different landscape images

 forest; stone aside the road; not too much lighting, this terrain slopes gently.(basis of my second island)

country of origin: inner Mongolia landscape  full of sand and big wind not to much lighting, the sky is getting dark, some sort of ancient architecture lies dimly at a distance.

High mountains lie on the green ground,  water falls at distance, light is bright.(basis of my own island)

Some sort of terraced fields, green and full of sun light, mountains at distance.

Mountains aside, flat water, wooden bridge, sky is blue and bright.

last letter: "O"& lest number: "4"

(My custom island)Based on the last letter of my last name and last number of my student ID,

World creator "O4"screenshot

3 images of second island in cryengine SDK

  

New texture

Lecture reflection (02)

In this week's lecture, we talked about some of the examples of the hyperrealism and computer generated imagery(CGI) demo, and some kind of scuplture research between real and unreal. I found the geometry in sculpture is very interesting, I would like to use it in my own work someday. Otherwise, I have learned some how to create the terrain of my island, haha.

Week 01

cryENGINE sandbox

a,  5 things I learned about the Sandbox folder structure:

1, you can enter into the sandbox interface by click on the editor in 64 or 32 folder.

2,64bit compare to 32bit, is faster and allow to use more memory.

3,Game folder is really important, a bunch of zip folder in there, music, sound etc. you can extract them and working with them.

4, before start work, we should check the green lights turned on in setting manager in tools folder in order to have your assets imported correct.

5,you may have to install the exporter plug ins for 3ds max in cry engine tools folder.

b,  10 tips and tricks related to the Sandbox User Interface:

1,Key WSAD on the keyboard can be used to move the view of your island on the screen.

2, You can change resolution size on the top right corner with that 2 numbers.

3, You can use WAD keys in keyboard to move the character.

4,  You can use group tool to group several objects into one single object.

5, Press control+G will change to the game mode.

6, You can use view tab to hide and show different panels.

7, Press F3 on the keyboard can help to use the wireframe.

8, You can change the speed of moving the view of your island, for example, 0.1, 1,etc.

9, Roll up bar is very useful to do a lot of things, such as adding vegetation, river or road.

10, You can use lock select button to prevent some accident option errors.

c,  5 ways to customise the Sandbox editor setup:

1, You can put the particular editor box wherever you like by dragging and dropping it.
2, You can editor the number of undo commands if you intend to retrace the work.

3, if you want to change some undos you have made, go to preference.

4, You can resize the window or editor box by click and drag.

5, You can create or add more buttons to customise the key option of keyboard.

d,  3 different ways of moving around the level:

1, press "WSAD"key no the keyboard can move the view view around.

2, Press 'alt+mouse button', you can rotate the view of your island. 

3, Press "middle mouse button" to move the view around.

e,  User Interface Panels (identifies 5 shortcuts or buttons, and what each of their functions are):

1, press "control+G" will go to game mode.

2,  press "control+S", you can save your work.

3, press "control+C", copy the selected object.

4, press "control+Z", to undo your last step.

5, press"control+shift+click the object" can move the object.

f,  reflection on this week one's lecture and make a unique observation regarding its content as it relates to your own work;

During the first lecture, there was a introduction of this course,including the assignments in this course and  many past year student's work have been show to us.  We are going to mainly use the cry engine software to do some work, the first assignment is to crate my own island. I am going to try my best on doing this course.