Module 3 Week 14 - Skydome & Mountains

- This week:

        - sky sphere

        - clouds

        - exponential height fog

        - mountains

- Move the start player position (closer to the talisman) - blue arrow should be on the ground

- Make the bear lighter (inside of the tree should be lighter)

- Edge of the world - make a slope/populate with more grass and rocks around the edge

- Smaller rock platform - the edge is too tight with the bigger one

- Fix the nav mesh

- Tree - try 4K resolution

Module 3 Week 13 - Tree Game Res

 Notes from last week that I worked on:

• Shadow bias in UE - put lower to cast shadows for vegetation (light setting, go lower).

• Play with a gradient in Ps to make the island less floaty / or add a fog on the bottom

• Get Orb’s shader for ZBrush

• Look into decals (green color under the vegetation)

• Could add a fourth material for the ground (use alpha)

• Make the plants with flowers bigger

• Small grass is too small

• Add a stand/rock for the talisman 

• Texture for the talisman (change the shadow to be warmer)

• Emissive gem in the middle

• The ground texture doesn’t make sense, the detail is too big

• Too much cracks texture (use more soil and sand texture)

• Think about gradient (more vegetation in the back of the tree)

• Gradient on the tree (lighter on the top) (check srgb channel, the colors look darker in UE)

Week 13 - Proxies and Concept

 Here are the slides I worked on for this week. In addition, I worked more on the concept art for Gary and kept working on the models for Bulbasaur and Gary. 

Module 3 Week 12 - Tree High Res

This week I worked on sculpting the high res models for the tree and the bear sculpture. I also created a new interactive object, added a third material for the ground variation, and edited the vegetation. 

Here are the notes that I worked on:

•  Bigger ground plane

•  Change the material on the grabbable object

•  Roughness on the plant 

• Tertiary forms for the plants

• Variation for the grass

• Ground texture seem

• Add more grass to create a path to the tree

•  Player is too high off the ground

•  Everything is too cramped

• Soil texture for the ground

• New interactive item (talisman)

Week 12 - Custom Style Guide/Prototyping

Here are the slides that I worked on for this week. 
As for the proxy models, I worked on the human mesh and the model for Bulbasaur (Charmander proxy was created by Roscoe)

Module 3 Week 11 - Vegetation

Notes for this week:

-  Make medium and small plants:

- Big - tall flower bush (1024 - 5K tris)

- Medium - smaller bush with smaller flowers (1024 - 2.5K tris)

- Small - one flower & small grass patch (512 - 1K tris)

- Build reflection capture

- Add a sandy texture

- Uncheck SRGB in texture map in Unreal (only for normal and the packed map)

- Bake high res normal for the rocks

- Check the emerald BP and collision

- Make a grey material for the other objects (get rid on the checkered material)

- Check out vertex paint in UE

Week 11 - Art Style Guide

 

Module 3 Week 10 - Ground/Modular Rock Set

This week I worked on creating a tile texture for the ground and texturing rocks (big, medium, and small). 
Notes from Nick from previous class that I addressed:

- Tiling texture for the ground

- Finish sculpting and texturing rocks

-  Swap out the interactable item (crystal) and add BluePrint

- Tree, rocks, grass, and floor - separate FBX objects (when importing to Unreal)

- Make smaller steps to get to the tree

- Populate the back of the tree

- Start lighting

- Take out Nick's files

- Add tall vegetation

- Add flowers