Clarke Steinback Ph.D. 3D Computer Modeling APCG 330 Fall 2005 Lonely Cabin

2005 Fall ->3D Computer Modeling ->Galleries ->Group Gallery ->Lonely Cabin Mai Y. Yang   Group Scene Javier Paredes     Chris Mauzey             Lonely Cabin   Inspiration An old abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods stand lonely. Someone’s begun to chop more wood but has decided that it’s not worth it, so he leaves the cabin with the axe still stuck in the stump. Seasons have come and gone, now it’s back to fall again with pine needles and pine cones lying on the forest floor. The old brick well hasn’t aged at all it seems but has been empty for quite some time. All around the forest, no animals trample around the area where the lonely cabin stands. Objects Cabin Mai 5 hours   Pinecone Mai 2 hours   Tree Mai 5 hours   Logs Javier 15 mins   Well Javier 10 hours   Bucket Javier 20 mins   Stump Chris 20 mins   Axe Chris 30 mins   Forest Floor Chris 20 mins   Forest Background Chris 20 mins   Lighting Chris 5 mins   Rendering Chris 10 mins Textures Walls http://www.monitorstudios.com/bcloward/textures/wood51.jpg   Roof http://www.geog.utah.edu/~ghepner/chen/images/p1006001.jpg   Door http://www.bryanscabin.com/images/cabin_doorClosed.jpg   Metal http://www.tutorio.com/media/photoshop/20041003-flat-metal-final.jpg   Tree Bark http://www.treecanada.ca /images/ tree_images/large/ Western%20White%20Pine%20bark%20(Pinus%20monticola).jpg   Door Step http://www.bryanscabin.com/ images/cabin_doorClosed.jpg   Well http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ staff/cpadmb/ luxury/gal2/Bricks.jpg   Well wood http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/ cs.cmu.edu/project/ anim-2/tex/ wood/Ruf-wood.jpg   Logs http://www.f0.am/p~lot/ gamespace/baseq3/ textures/unused/ wood/ wood_treemarks.bmp   Steel http://www.jbernarddesign.com/ Assets/ Pearlescent%20Collection/ Hammered%20Steel.jpg   Axe Handle http://usuarios.lycos.es/ syzethal/Files/ TexturaMadera1.jpeg   Forest Background http://www.wsl.ch/ forest/waldman/ fgrowth/oub/ quebec/images/504_rad.jpg   Forest Floor http://severinghaus.org/ pictures/ nature/flora/ DSCF5425_pine_needles_sm.jpg   Log End http://web.utk.edu/~grissino/ images/ ashland_hemlock2.jpg   Log End 2 http://www.oar.noaa.gov/ spotlite/ archive/ images/liquidgold_treering.jpg   Pine Bark http://amber.rc.arizona.edu/ darktree/PineBark.jpg Problems and Solutions Mai: The one problem I had was with the tree model. We specifically wanted pine trees in our scene and while I was able to create this, it took a lot of polygons. I had two options, either make a few large polygons and paste an image on the surface or to actually make the pine needles, depending on how we were going to render our scene. I tried both and in the end, I decided on the model with a lot of polygons. In the end, with the qemLoss2 tool, I was able to reduce the number of polygons.   Javier: One of the problems that I had was creating a rope for the well. I tried creating it by using the capsule tool then I used the twist tool but the results did not look good. The rope lacked segments so it came out blocky. I did not find any solutions.   Chris: I had trouble creating the forest background for the scene.  The backdrop option in Layout didn’t provide a sufficient appearance and the number of appropriate pictures I had was small.  Another way to create a background was to surround the scene in a “sky dome”, which in my case was a cylindrical wall.  I made a giant disk that engulfed the scene, deleted the top polygon and the lower half below the scene.  The surface was inverted to show the texture on the inside.  In order for light to shine through this wall I had to go to item properties in Layout, and make the layer with the wall unaffected by light.  However, this meant the background dark.  To counter this, I raised the luminosity of the surface to match the lighting of the scene. References Magic Bevel Tool         http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~ranger/samples/ CSCI140/tutorialsF04/JGhislettatutorial.pdf Bump Map                   http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~ranger/20022003S/ CSCI_140/tutorials/Chris_Peterson/bump_tutorial.htm 2005 Fall Concept Design and Storyboarding 3D Computer Modeling Assignments Calendar Gradebook Syllabus Tutorials Galleries Desk Gallery Final Gallery Group Gallery Web Page Design Portfolio Video Game Desgin

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