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CSCI 140 Spring 2005
Chris Burlison
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Chris Burlison Final Scene
 Snow Trip Getaway 
Inspiration

Aside from learning to create cool new things with Lightwave, the thing I really love to do is snowboard. Snowboarding is my way of getting away from all of the cares and concerns of reality. I feel weightless and free, so for me there is no place I’d rather be.
 
ObjectsSnow/LandscapeChris Burlison
 Ski liftsChris Burlison
 Box and spine railsChris Burlison
 SkySkytracer and Skytracer 2
   
TexturesTree imageGoogle search trees.
 Clip mapChris Burlison with Aura.
 Tracks in snow, bump mapChris Burlison with Aura.
 Tagging on the rails, image mapChris Burlison with Aura
 Procedural turbulence and crumple color and bump maps
 Gradient slope layer
Time Frame

Lighting             30 minutes
Texturing            3 hours
Modeling            5 hours
Sky Tracer            1 hour and 30 min
Problems and Solutions

Problem:
The day before presentations, I went into the other computer lab to make a few minor adjustments on my scene and experienced difficulties. My scene was not loading correctly and was saying that certain objects were not there that actually were there.

Solution:
After trying a different computer and a few different approaches, I went into our computer lab and it worked fine. The USB drive is E: in 241 and G: in 251, and apparently that was the reason why it didn’t work correctly. This was some last minute stress I didn’t need.
 
Problem: I would like to have added some rocks and maybe a tree stump or log but I ran out of time.

Solution: Monster energy drinks.
References

Mountain texture tutorial
www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutorials/surface/ texturing/texturing_landscape.html
 
www.firedragon.com/~flashfire  For Sky Tracer 2 tutorial.

Jeff Bohlin’s tutorial on clip-mapping from class website.