GPG-220 Studio 2 Sae dubai

This week we have started work on the technical document although we will only fill in the sections required & finish the document before the submission. Apart form the documentation I have been looking into creating terrains without having to do it manually using the brushes & came across height maps. Finding height maps is not easy as they require certain information, for example if the resolution of the height map is 512*512 pixels it is actually 1+512*1+512 as the extra information is stored in the height map. Another thing I have looked over is converting the newly imported terrain into a lowpoly one using animation software’s such as 3ds max & blender although I feel that blender might be a better option based on the video I have looked up which is linked below (Akhter/Youtube, 2015). Akhter/Youtube, S. (2015, December 11).  Quick Blender Unity Tutorial: Low Poly Terrain [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtu...

For this week we have re visited our basic game idea and refined it further with difficulty, the further you go into the valley the more the difficulty increases. I have also finished night and day cycle although our lecturer said I should redo it thus I will be redoing the night & day cycle with a different approach. After going over some of last weeks research I have decided to use the lights intensity & the amount of time in a day to make the day & night system in comparison to the previous approach which seems like the easy way of doing it . After completing the system, I have started working on the technical document for the project which seems to be pretty long. Luckily I don’t have to write it from scratch as Sae has a template of it on Moodle thus I have to just fill in the sections which makes my work slightly simple. For our classes this week we have had a recap on flocking AI & how basic obstacle avoidance works. At firs...

For this week I was mainly looking into working into the rain system, it seems to be a simple approach but It never is & I was right. After looking into simulating rain I learnt that the way I was looking to make the rain would cause performance issues where in there would be loss of frames per second. Although the performance loss was there I found a way around that by making the particle system only work in a smaller area rather than the entire terrain. The performance increase gave the project a pretty good performance boost although the particle system looked more like a waterfall than actual rain but after a little bit of trial & error I have the rain system working. The rest of my week was used up in order to look into the night & day cycle & what would be the right approach, after looking up various system I decided to have the simplest system which is using rotating two game objects so it looks like a day & night cycle.