Compiled Video

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Images of us Working

 Daniel working on setting up animations inside Maya for the game

Daniel working on setting up animation inside Maya for the game

Kyle working on fixing a shot that was rendered incorrectly 

Kyle changing Mental Ray render settings

Jared doing finishing touches on the main characters rig

Jared doing finishing touches to the main characters robo arm rig

Game Sound Effects

This is an image of my work space when I'm creating sound effects. The software is use is FL studio 10, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Premiere.

Game Errors

I have been working on the animation for our characters hand. He currently has 4 animations (idle, and 3 different punches). They are playing nicely inside Unity with an animation type of Generic with baked key frames on the Inverse Kinematic handles

Here we can see a punch animation through the Game window (left side) and we can see the character in the Scene window (right side)

The problem is that whenever the character is out of the scene window view, the hand animations start acting weird, every time they do a punch, they get stuck right next to our character making them unable to be seen by our player though the Game window

but as soon as the character is visible in the Scene window the hand pops back up in the Game window and starts working perfectly again. (as long as it's visible in the Scene window)

I tried numerous things to fix the problem. I re-imported the object, I baked the key frames in Maya, I also took the scripting off of it and left it doing a loop of its animation, I tried making a build of the scene to test if it was just Unity effecting the game, but nothing seemed to work. I finally fixed it by parenting the scene camera to the player.

Game Models

This is a picture of part of the game's level. The two rooms you see are separated by a wall and each room will contain an object the player must collect in order to progress through the game.

This is the laser pistol the player will receive at the beginning of the game 

This is the laser shotgun the player will receive once he or she reaches a particular checkpoint

Tracy in a capsule being creepy

Game Textures

This is a screenshot of my work-space on a texture for one of the rooms that's going to be included in our game. On the farthest left screen I have Maya open so I can see how the texture looks when it's applied to the object.
On the middle screen I have PhotoShop open in order to create the textures that will be seen while playing the game.
On the far right screen I have an image of a circuit board open to give me ideas on how to style the texture.

This is a UV map of a crate we'll have incorporated in our game. 

This is a rough texture for a window that I created.

This is a UV map of one of the guns we'll have in our game.

This is a UV map of one of the more complex guns we'll have in our game.

This is a finished texture of a platform.

Lighting & Rendering Game Trailer

All of these pictures are of our scene with physical sun and sky applied. This is a progression of how I messed with the settings and how I got to our final render setting. Physical sun in sky is a setting in mental ray that creates an environment with the lighting that uses many different color correction settings that can create a very realistic environment. 

Getting all of the settings to work correctly with the environment was quite difficult because either the scene would be too exposed and blown out or it would be way too saturated and dark. 

Also, messing with the shadows was really strange because whenever I would turn the multiplier of the sky up, or if I would change the gamma, the shadows would become extremely contrasted and would become over powering.

The reason why the character's skin is red is because that is what the pre-render of the miss-fastskin-shader looks like in the viewport. But in the rendered view through Mental Ray it gives the skin a life-like appearance,

This is a render of our main scene with all of the Mental Ray Physical Sun and Sky settings correct. It took me a while to decipher what color profile to render in because I didn't know what color space Targas existed in. So with some research and trial and error, I found that using sRGB with Targas produced the best rendered product.

This a final render of when Jason is about to jump into the portal.