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3D Computer Modeling
APCG 330 Spring 2006

Heather Kellogg

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Heather Kellogg		Desk Scene



	Working on a puzzle


	Inspiration When I was first stuck with the task of putting a desk scene together I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do. At first I thought an outdoors scene would be interesting or maybe something cartoonish. As I was lying on my bed staring off into space I noticed a puzzle of the world I bought some time ago just waiting to be put together. Then it hit me I could do a scene of a 3D puzzle. Putting puzzles together has always been a fun hobby of mine since I was younger. So I decided to incorporate that hobby into my project. For the walls, I textured them with a puzzle texture in Photoshop. As for my objects, I originally was trying to get them look like Lego pieces. That turned out to be more difficult than I thought. But nothing lost, I have learned a great deal on my very first Light Wave project.

Objects	Bed	Heather
	Pillows	Heather
	Desk	Heather
	Pencil	Heather
	Book	Heather
	Glass	Heather
	Bottle	Heather

Textures	Puzzles	Heather w/ help of Photoshop and Alien Skin Eye Candy
	Hand	Heather
	Wine Label	image taken from www.mcnees.org


	Problems and Solutions P1.) Getting the back wall to be see through as though there were missing puzzle pieces. S1.) With the help of Jeff Bohlin’s texture mapping tutorial I was able to clip out the missing pieces with a black and white clipping map. P2.) Filling my glass with wine. S2.) After making my own glass I tried following Jinsheng Li’s tutorial of Liquid in a Glass and it still kept messing up. I then realized that I did something wrong in making the glass. But what I found out after what seemed like hours of frustration that I needed to select the inside of the glass turn it into a polygon and color it. P3.) Getting my puzzle texure and the bump map to line up. S3.) I’m not sure if I really did solve it, since it took me almost the whole project to do this and it still doesn’t look like I want. The one thing that held me back the most was that I didn’t realize the positions for both images were off. Even with automatic sizing I still had to position them myself manually. Then, I had to be careful not to make where the puzzles recede be too wide. So just going back and forth on the bump map and rendering my scene, I slowly made the black lines smaller around the puzzle pieces.

Time Frame	Creating bounding boxes (and positioning them)	3 hours
	Desk	2 ½ hours
	Bed	2 ½ hours
	Glass	4 hours
	Bottle	1 hour
	Pencil	2 hours
	Book	1 ½ hours
	Textures	To be honest I have no idea, it took days to figure it out.
	Lighting	2 ½ hours (give or take, I kept changing it)
	Finding Inspiration	However long it took me to stare at my closet


	References I mostly used the student tutorials and the book; one website that I did find helped a little was www.newtek.com/lightwave/tutorials

2006 Spring

Concept Design and Storyboarding

Applied Computer Graphics Program
Department of Computer Science
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0410
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ranger@ecst.csuchico.edu

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