Now, I will be looking at how to export a model from Maya which will allow me to import it into Substance Painter and from there I will do the baking process which is where you bake all the information from the higher poly model into the low poly model that you have created. And…
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Before I show you the process of how I created a low poly version of my Shuriken, I will look at what a low poly is and the differences between a high and low poly model and where you could use a low and high poly model. Firstly, a low poly model is a type…
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When I finished modelling my Shuriken in Maya I went to go look at it in the smooth mode which is a preview of what an object will look like when you render it and as you can see in the image below the shape of the shuriken has been changed because it has lost…
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I designed various objects/ areas that could fit with the environment that I am creating with my group, and I had to make sure these concepts fit the themes of the environment and to make sure that they fit in with the other parts of the environment that the rest of the group were going…
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Now, that I have picked the concept I am going to use for my hero piece which is a Shuriken and I am going to show the process of how I created the 3D model for my Shuriken in Maya, firstly I will be using a square as the basis for my shuriken and the…
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Before I decided to draw any potential concepts for my hero asset and pick the concept I was going to use for the final hero asset I needed to do some planning so I needed to know what type of things I wanted to create for the hero asset that related to the themes for…
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When designing the various concepts for my hero asset I had to make sure they were related to themes for this project which are a blacksmith and the Edo period of Japan and to make sure they were related to both of my themes I did some research on what type of things they were…
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This week I was tasked with UV mapping an object and then unwrapping that object so firstly, I will be discussing what these mean so UV mapping is where there will be a flat representation of the 3D model I have made and with this, it will allow me to apply textures to any model…
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Creating a Material Now, I am going to discuss the process of making materials in Unreal and materials affect the look of the object when a material is placed on it so you can use a material to make an object in your scene look the way that you want it to. So firstly, to…
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Before I and my group decided to create anything relating to our themes, we needed to do some planning as we needed to know what we wanted to create for the environment piece and to help us plan we created a mood board and this would help us because it would allow us to collect…
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