| | | Eric Campbell | | Final Scene | | | A Night at Fenway | |
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| | Inspiration
I have always played sports throughout my life and baseball is my favorite so I knew I wanted to do something with baseball for my final project. About a month ago I went to the Red Sox and Yankee series at Fenway Park and from the moment I saw the stadium I knew it was going to be my final project. Early in the project I realized that making a baseball field was going to be very difficult but I feel that it turned out close to what I had in my mind.
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| | | Objects | Grass | Eric Campbell with SasLite plugin | | | Dirt Infield | Eric Campbell | | | Walls | Eric Campbell | | | Seats | Eric Campbell | | | Light Standards | Eric Campbell | | | Bases and Lines | Eric Campbell | | | Lights | Eric Campbell | | | Foul Pole | Eric Campbell | | | Scoreboard | Eric Campbell | | | | | Textures | Jumbotron | www.images.google.com | | | Boston Skyline | www.images.google.com | | | Carpet | Google | | | JD images | Jack Tutorial | | | Wood | Light Wave |
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| | Time Frame
I spent roughly 30 to 35 hours on this project.
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| | Problems and Solutions
Making a baseball field that was the correct size and getting the correct angles was solved when I found the website below with the dimensions of Fenway. The First real problem that I ran into was getting Saslite to only put the grass on the right area's and not on the base lines and infield dirt. The way that I was able to make this work was to divide the grass field before I cut out the dirt portions so that Saslite would not get confused with the area it was being applied to and also to name the different sections grass1, grass2 etc to also make it easier for the plugin. The next problem I encountered with the grass was that it would became white when I used the volumetric lighting for the lights. With help from the website below I found the right settings so that the grass would look correct. The biggest problem I encountered was the stadium lights. First getting the volumetric lighting to look correctly I had to make a black background with holes where the lights were so that the lighting could only be seen through the lightbulb array. If you just put the light close to the light casing then there is a point where you can tell the light is starting from. Once I did this then I had to fix the problem of applying a background picture so that it didn't look like the lights were at the same area as the picture. To do this I built a kind of tunnel to let the light through but I had to make the inside of this box completely reflective so that you could not see the edges of the box through the openings that were used to make the array of lightbulbs. In all given the time frame the problems were for the most part solved with some minor adjustments still needed.
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