IMD 3901 : Milestone 3 - noreenqureshi/TermProjectBlogposts GitHub Wiki
February 23, 2021
Overview
- This milestone will summarize the work completed between February 10, 2021 - February 13, 2021 and February 21, 2021 to February 23, 2021.
- Our team took a week long break from February 14, 2021 - February 20, 2021 (Reading week)
As a team, we had our weekly scrum meeting, and completed our design document. Most of our effort for this week was put into preparing for our presentation and creating design comps that were used in our Alpha Presentation on February 12.
The presentation can be viewed here.
After our week long break, I created a low-fidelity polygon level layout. For the low-fidelity layout, I simply added 3D objects in key places to represent the most distinguishable features in the level. This allows me to break down each section and slowly model each chunk in more detail. I am currently in the process of transforming the low-fidelity polygon layout into medium-fidelity, which can be seen on the main building
Low/Medium-Fidelity Level Layout :
Top view :
Challenges
For me, one of the biggest challenges was getting back into my regular work flow after our week long break. After a week of relaxation, coming back to long term projects seems scary and difficult to do. However, I told myself that I would at least create a low-fidelity layout of our level, and by doing that I got back into the modelling process. Creating the level did not seem so daunting anymore, after I started with simple shapes. Simply creating the level layout was enough to make me want to start a medium-fidelity model, which I had fun doing as well!
Successes
I think our Alpha Presentation and design document were successful! As a team we split up the work evenly, so there was no one on our team who was burdened with more or less work than the other members. Jenny and I worked on the design document, each of us practiced and recorded our parts for the Alpha Presentation, and William put together the final presentation video. We got the job done, and each of us contributed an equal amount to the Alpha Presentation, which I think is a big success!
Total hours spent this week: 12
Next steps
Moving forward, my goal for the next milestone is to finish at least a medium-fidelity prototype of all the models needed for the level. I have one Maya file of the scene layout, and I plan on discussing with my team whether we should export the scene as one object or export each individual model as its own object.