Monday, February 15, 2010
Game Character Creation
in Game Character Creation
The Finalization Of My Concept =)
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Bug fixing, interactions and MS2 deliveries
in OpenCL Particle SystemI’ve begun implementing interactions (forces) between the particles. This will be done using Lennard-Jones potential – a mathematical model that describes the interaction between a pair of atoms or molecules. It’s currently done in n^2 complexity, which makes it very computational heavy with only 1K particles. To speed it up I will look into spatial hashing later the upcoming week.
Tomorrow is the milestone 2 presentation, and I will show off a proof of concept movie I’ve prepared which shows what the framework is capable of so far. It’s available in the public section.
For the upcoming week I’ll be cleaning up the code, make it possible to change the particles’ attributes during runtime, and look into the spatial hashing.
Progress report
in 3D Portal RenderingThings have changed quite a bit since last week in terms of the loading of levels in the portal system. My first idea on the level loader was to structure everything up directly in maya with sections and portals structured in folders, so i then in nebula hack up the big levelscene and create the portals and sections from that. That wasn’t as easy as i had hoped! The Nebula 3 Engine is quite different from the previous version 2 and that has taken alot of extra time, things i thought would be peice of cake acually took alot of energy.
So i’ve decided to go with some kind of script that reads in objects, sections and portals separatly. The best way would be to be able to generate this script directly from maya so i’m thinking about lerning som MEL-scripting later in the project. But now i focus on the structure in my project and make everything work there before i start thinking about loading anything.
I’ve created a portal server singleton that will manage all of the sections and sections in turn will manage the objects as well as the portals.
I think i have gotten over the biggest humps now in terms of nebula 3 and belive that implementation of the system now can start for real.
Peasant Village - Object tracking and Body double
in Peasant Village, Visual effects in live actionThis is a Maya Playblast (NOT render) from my object tracking scene (added some motion blur). I felt I was on a roll yesterday, tracking stuff, so I went on and tracked the object I’m holding in this shot (I created it from a black candle and some white pins). I used Syntheyes once again and the whole process went very smoothly. I imported the meat snake to the scene and constrained it to the tracked object, just to see if I was going in the right direction. This is just a quick test - and I noticed some problems right away. For example, I am not reacting to the shifting weight when the snake moves. The actual tracking object will be easily removed in post, it looks kind of weird now when it’s visible behind the snake…
My plan was to roto my fingers in post to make them appear to be on the meat snake. Now I think I will create simple finger meshes with projected textures instead.
I also created a body double. We will use this in one shot, and it will replace the Doctor for maybe 15 frames or so. In the shot it will be kind of small and moving at great speed - so it’s really low poly and has a very simple rig (we’re going with FK only). Some clusters can be used to animate the coat.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
week 4: progress
in Game Demo Environment DesignThis week I have been modeling some more. I have been experimenting some with Nebulas particlesystem. I have also done some more tests with dynamic shadows and lightmaps. I decided after the first week that I will only use lightmaps for the level, but we will probably use dynamic shadows for the character. I had some problems with my alphaplanes not casting correct shadows. I got shadows for the whole planes instead of the alpha texture. Luckily google solved this for me =), by using surface shaders and the blendcolors node i now get nice shadows in Maya which I can create my lightmaps with.
particletest in Nebula
lighttests in Nebula
Friday, February 12, 2010
More progress of this week
in Creature Modeling for Film Production
More things I have done this week are:
- Trying the displacement map (with the high ploygon mesh I have done so far) which I have alot of problems with still as you see. Hopefully it will look better after next week when I count on being done with the model.
- Some shots has been taken of the location I had in mind. It was difficult to follow my storyboard and the eqiupment I had with me was not the best.
- Today I tried to do tracking and match moving with my film, I had some problems with that too. It took too much time for me to learn everything!
- I tried to work with my preview clip (previz), but its not going well at all. Maybe I will try tomorrow to cut it together, now I know at least how to do all these things…
- I have done a presentation and a document about my - not so very successful - process so far in this project. You can find them under Milestone 2.
I will try to post my previz soon. We will see what happens…
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Progress report 3
in 3D Environment DesignThis week I have been busy modelling smaller items and putting together a previz for Milestone 2 (Monday).
Not much to say really, the previz took longer than I expected, since i’m doing my best to get the right camera angles,
so I will have to work this upcoming weekend aswell.
All will be ready for Milestone2 though.
progress
in Modeling for game enginethis week I have done some more modeling,( did a AA mounted mg34 for some more fire power^^) starting to feel satisfied with the model, maybe go on with some sculpting next week. Lot of work to do!
bodybuilder progress report
in Character modeling and texturing
This has been a slow week, i havent had time to finish the texturing as i wanted. I did his hair and it took almost 3 days with maya crashing all the time. I also had problems with the bump map, wanted more detail in it so i tried to go from a 4k to 8k map, hehe but there is no way on theese computors so i´ll try an additional smaller tileable one. Otherwise i think im beginning to feel pretty finished with this one, just tweaking some colors and paint a specmap.heres where im at now http://gscept.com/projects/10/hyBo/public/images/sss_progress2.jpg
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Game Character Creation
in Game Character CreationThis week i have been modeling everyday to finaliaze the characters base mesh for MsII and done som e tweaking on the face. i have assemblied it and put every part that’s going to be on on the base mesh. I’am also almost done with my final concept picture. The wacom are having some problems but i will post the concept work this weekend..
Next week i will continue modeling on the characters weapons and assets it’s going to have. i plan to have the base mesh of the assets/ weapons done in the end of next week and, and i will continue on the characters hair as well…
Peasant Village - Face tracking
in Peasant Village, Visual effects in live actionTo begin with, pardon my poor acting skills. But hey, luckily I’m not studying to become an actor… The footage for the face tracking shot is now final. The face was tracked with Syntheyes, and the solve was exported to Maya. I built a point cloud from three reference pictures, to use as guides when modelling the actual mesh. I did this because it is very important that the face mesh is very accurate.
There are some small errors, and I’m pretty sure it’s deformation of my face that causes some points to slide on the surface. The point cloud was created from my face in a relaxed pose, and one could say that my face in this shot is anything but relaxed. I will fix this by creating a simple rig for the face to control the eyes, eyebrows and the mouth/jaw area and then animate this rig to match the face deformation. Later on I will manually track the eyeballs to follow the movement of my eyes. Also I am not sure the 3D camera has exact focal length of the physical camera we used in the shot. We did take focal length notes when shooting, but we are not 100% sure we got the correct back plate/film back information. This will be investigated further.
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Character Creation for G/C - Progress Week 4
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicModeling
This week did I work mostly with the steam robot (character 2). I have finished the high polygon part now. I may do some very small tweaking to optimize the polygon count, it’s about 64 k triangles for the moment.
Sniper girl (character 1) has some minor problems with topology at hers jacket. Will look in to that problem this weekend and put up some thought about how to fix it. Then I will continuing to sculpt the high polygon part for her too.
Some Ambient Occlusion of Steam Robot.
Some wires of Steam Robot.
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Progress report
in Beyond the FrameI’ve almost finished the lighting and it’s starting to look pretty good. Napoleons horse in uv-mapped and ready for some detail modeling. The world is also uv-mapped and has a base texture.
Jonas is cleaning up the meshes and adapting them for some detail modeling in mudbox.
50’s diner - progress
in Realistic 50's diner for film productionI have made an update on the previz, new angles and with some other changes.
I’ve also started texturing this week, not as much though. I have to hurry up next week.
