Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Unwrapping & Winding up things.

So far the modeling part has came decent enough to represent the Chennai buildings, especially the Santhome High road to beach road to Parry corner, 80% of the building modeling works are successfully completed. I should Thank FIFA 2011, now its like being alone the whole day and my only entertainment and break from work is FIFA 2011, I play as Real Madrid often and scoring goals with Cristiano Ronaldo & Kaka' makes me so happy and puts be back to work agian with a refreshment. I never thought I would finish the modeling job at this speed, I am really amazed, becoz, when I got so low refference images, its a time consuming process to make things look so real, and I have decently managed it here. Even though few mistake are there, but it look the Chennai way here. Check yourself guys....

Absolute homes hotel, this was a easy task, I completed the model in an hour, and the unwrapping and texturing took some time, I couldn't use the Texture from the reference image, so I goggled a lot, then I made my own texture, and have managed to match it.


Finally figured out a way for alpha mapping, it was really been a headache, when ever I save the photoshop file with alpha map, as a targa format, and when I check it in Maya, the whole model will render like a see through...just the transperancy applied every where, then I learnt a old method to clear this problem. Anyway got to check with my teammate, whether this works in Cryengine.


Todays update I am working on unwrapping the buildings, once its done, I got few more building to go on, then I am done with the Iconic buildings, my next job from then would be modling the far away lowpoly buildings, Lights,busstops, Statue's on Marina, then finally the car. Ah, I have modeled a Camero old version, I used max. I followed lots of tutorial to do that.
  

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Officially Night Stay has started.



Ha..Finally we are back in the busy business. We have started to utilize the time as productive as we could. Today we went to Palmshore and Cafe day, Since this is the first night stay in this final year, we celebrated it and gave a good start. Allen is working on the HUD, and I am working on the Level design part. 

Monday, March 19, 2012

Pressure is on !

Today we had a exam board meeting at the college, And the shocking news was the deadlines. College announced us a very short deadline, May 18th, that is the final day to submit our works. We thought its going to be June 22. but this time, we don't have so much time left. We have four modules to complete in this very short amount of period,
1.Project (20% is done & stuck in the production phase :( ..)
2.Dissertation (Not even started till now)
3.portfolio Presentation, just started with visiting card & logo, flash class is going on the way.
4. Business of Media ( don't know anything about it)



Saturday, March 17, 2012

Done with Ezio Auditore Da Firenze.

Today I was really happy, I have finished the Assassin's Creed : Revelations , I saw the epic ending, The game had fantastic story, Which involved Altair, Niccolo Polo, Sofia, Sultan , And finally Ezio. I felt bad in the climax, when Ezio removes his hidden blade and say's " I have seen enough for one life ", this is epic. I never though Ezio will leave that place with out getting that apple of Eden. Now I am waiting to see the Assassin's creed III. 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Very good beginning

using the reference image from the Google map, we are using the scaling , so we hopefully may achieve a good real world scaling. This may be a time consuming process, and so far I have used so many separate meshes, and its coming out really well.  I have no clue, how I am going to unwrap this model...I had a very bad experience with le -Royal Meridian hotel modeling, my system crashed ans my attempt to recover the files are failed. Now I have made sure, that I have all my works backed up. 



Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Started with Santhome Church

Among many iconic buildings in Chennai and especially in this game, Santhome church is one of the very most important building, According to game story line, the very first race starts with this place and ends at Parry's corner, Chennai. I have never modeled such a old architectural building, this going to be a very tough & good learning experience for me. Let see, how much time I am gonna take for this.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Texturing Done for crane.

Whoo...Finally I have done with the texturing for the crane. As I have mentioned earlier, I gone through a way which I was not familiar with, when I started with 8K, my system luckily handled the amount of memory, I should love my system. But Saddly, the normal mapping process didn't come up well, the Nvidia normal map fillter failed me from using it. I tried my best for normal mapping, and failed with that process, still searching for an efficient way to get it done. So I may learn new things on the way.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Break from work

I have planned to enjoy this weekend with my friends.. Ah gonna attend a CS tournament..Let see , how this weekend will be. 

Friday, February 17, 2012

Hmm...Working on the Crane Texture.

Suffff...Done with unwrapping, now I am doing a normal map research, I am using a 8K unwrapp, and gonna texture the crane, the will be reducing the texture to 1k or 2k. So I can achieve a good detail and the normal map too will have a good result in the end, I am expecting this to come well, so that I can add in my portfolio, lets see how good this comes.

Now I have gathered few pictures, which I can use in Photoshop to create texture for the crane.


Thursday, February 16, 2012

unwrapping a Crane.

I have done a crane, and it is quite complicated to unwrap, because it has nearly 25 seperate parts. Its taking time for me. I am really confused how big should the UV map resolution should be. I have planned to go for 2048 X 2048 ,since its going to be very big, but few of my friends suggested 1K will be enough. Anyway, Now I have planned to go for 8k and will texture it in 8K then I will gradually decrease to 2K or 1K which ever satisfies my need. I may add this to my port folio if this is gonna come well with all maps.



This is the crane I am unwrapping. This has many complicated parts and I am feeling hard to compress all the part in one single UV layout. But this is really a challenging task for me. I may learn some thing from this.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

First Formative Jury

Today , I woke early to attend the jury. I arrived at college by 9.30 am and started to go through the checklist once, with my team mate Allen Paulson. We almost had everything, The very first team was a bit late so we got the chance to present first. Lecturer Mr.Jyothi is the jury head. And we started to pitch the concept and we showed our work progressions, and we had some minus points, according to Mr.Jyothi. He kindly asked us not to commit mistake in the further juries. It took approximately 20mins for us. And after that we left the college. I went to purchase GTA 4, and after getting it I arrived at home by 3.30 pm. I took some rest and turned on my computer to Install GTA 4, bad luck the second disk was corrupted. Oh my god this is third time it happens. 

Monday, January 23, 2012

Reference Picture day!

Today, I am writing this blog at 4am in the early morning, because, From my home to santhome area travelling time is 2 hours in train. I need to go there as early as possible, so I will reach Santhome at 6.30, and I can get reference photo very clearly with no vehicles on the road. Early morning has no traffic.

And I will be in the college for the whole day and will be working on the Internship project. I have done something yesterday..I need to get it approved from Jai sir.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Maverick's Workshop: More modelling...

Maverick's Workshop: More modelling...: Still modelling things for the game. But things just seem to cause problems here and there. The file converters and stuff is causing a majo...

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Jury Pressure is on the way.

Today I had a new from my HOD, that I have a class. So I went to check with that, later there were no class for us, but it was to give us some info on jury. So I have a pre-production jury heading this 24th of january, before that I need to get signed the Art works from Murugasen (Art Faculty) and I got to get approval for my dissertation project.

Hmm, I hadn't worked on anything today.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Modelling Vehicle for test purpose.

hmm, today I was working on 3ds max, we had big issues when working with two softwares "Maya & Max", so i decided to go on with max.

I am working on the ambassador, this is the second time I am starting with the ambassador model, because previously I lost the works.

Monday, January 9, 2012

UVW unwrapping

Last night I slept after 3am, me and my team mate Allen worked on modeling , unwrapping and And baking normal maps. it was really hard to find a quick and easy workflow, today I am switching my self from maya to 3ds max 2012.

Lets see whats this lead us to..

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Starting to unwrap asset's


I was unwrapping this model, its a bus stop, done by Allen Paulson, the normal map came weird, we couldn't figure out why it came in a horrible way, any way, we are working on things. we will deliver a high quality content. 

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy new year 2012

Ha, from Nov 25th to Dec 31st I didn't have a System to work, I have lost a big time in our pre-production work. That is  because, I got my laptop spoiled by getting wet in rain..Anyway, the good news is, as a the New year, I have bought a New PC, which is Core i 7 3.4Ghz, 16GB DDR 3 Ram, GTX 550 Ti Nvidia 1GB GPU, 1 TB HDD, 23" LED ACER monitor, Cooler Master Cabin & power supply unit. Hmm...I hope this will be a good begining for me & my one and only team mate Allen Paulson.

I am Back on Track with 4X speed!!!