What I Learned Today: 2/27/2013

Today, I learned how to setup shapes for texturing using UV settings. This is the first step towards starting to building my first basic room as well as finally catching up to the rest of the class.

What I Learned Today: 02/25/13

Today, I finally was able to export the shapes from Maya into Unity in the proper size. With this finally out of the way, I can now start on texturing.

What I learned Today: 02/18/13

Today, I've learned to focus on objects in Unity. I was finally able to rotate all the duplicates and made the room I've been trying to make.

What I learned Today: 02/13/13

Today, I was finally able to solve the problem I had with Importing a shape from Maya into Unity. Turns out I need to set the preferences to specific settings everytime I start up Maya and likewise with unity as they do not save preferences. Once I imported the shape into Unity, I was then struggling to find why the shape was too small. It wasn't until I found the settings for scaling the shape. Once that was done, I finally had the size I had wanted. Now I can finally get caught up with the class and begin texturing.

What I learned Today: 02/04/13

Today, I not only had to re-examine and relearn making a object, but I also learned how to apply textures to the created objects. To assist in applying this fully for wednesday, I collected a wide selection of textures, varying from stone to diamond Plate. I have the hope of showing all the things I've learned while making it abit of a display of my style.

What I learned Today: 01/30/13

Today in my third day of Level design, I continued my learning Maya and would this time get to learn the basics of the preferences and settings. 

After watching todays lecture video both produced and provided by the instructor, I was able to then actually learn how to both set the grid to centimeter, to draw an object and to construct a room.

What I Iearned Today: 1/28/12

Today in my second day of Level design, I familiarized myself with a program called Maya, a 3D modelling program used mainly for characther modelling. Having no familiarity with said  program, it was abit of challenge to navigate around and figure everything. Only program that even comes slightly close was another Autodesk product called 3DS Max. Even then, it was nowhere near as packed or as massive.

After watching an intro video both produced and provided by the instructor, I was able to then actually learn how to navigate it. By Pressing Alt and Left clicking, I was able to rotate the object. By Pressing ALT and Right Click, I was able to pan around the object. I was also treated to some of the buttons and functions in the program. For instance, I was able to import a object (in this case a Sphere) into the program and by using Q, W & E, I was able to toggle between wireframe, Texture and Texture with Wireframe.

*Note: while this blog was not created on the intended date of the title, it details the activity from said date. All future posts will be posted on the exact date*