Week 9 and 10

After the alpha we created yet another new plan to keep us on track.  We made sure to not underestimate the time it would take to get things done, accounting in time for unexpected errors.

- One of the main areas for the group to focus on was improving textures. One of the main areas I focused on was my Easter Island head cave supports as the original diffuse was a simple grey rock texture. I wanted to make them fit in with the style of the boss so I used the idea of glowing cracks in them (using an emmisive like I had done with the mine carts). I changed the colour to blue to show how the supports are part of the alien technology.

- In order to add more interest to the walls of the tunnel it was suggested to add variation. I first tried extruding the faces but this lead to stretching on the texture and the extrusions did not look realistic. I then tried moving some of the vertices out to make the tunnel walls less smooth. This work better but I still did not fully understand the best way to create roughness on the walls. In order to fix this, Rob took over the tunnel as he had just used a technique on the valley involving edge loops and edge extruding that could be applied to the tunnel. I then continued to work on my other assets while he completed this task.

- I did a quick list of what needed to get done to help Rob the team leader out as he was busy. This helped us visualize what was still left to be done.