blog 8

A3D blog 8

In this blog I decided to work on my assets for my diorama in which I am going to place my character. I wanted to make it look like the concept I have chosen (below). 

For a quick start I decided to do the floor, so I open Maya, and then important UDK man

I then created a cube to use as the floor

I then selected the top and bottom shapes to make uv’s

Using planar mapping on y I created uv’s

I then selected two of the side faces and set planar mapping to z

This was to get the uv’s like this

I did the same with the last two, however they were set to x

Here was the uv’s

I now decided to make a light map for it by creating a new uv’s set called light map

I then went to change the grid for the light map resolution by dividing 1 by 32 and then type the value in grid lines:

To create the light map I used the same process for the uv map

I rename the mesh floor

I copied it and renamed it ucx_floor in order to make the collision

I also knew the floor could be used for walls and ceilings

I then went onto do the pillars; using UDK man as scale I created a cylinder

I added some edges and scaled them out

After I created the uv’s

I then started to work on the pillar parts

I then extruded certain faces outwards

I decided to keep the faces on top of each other because the texture is very basic 

I then went onto the another part

I added two cylinders to the side of it

I also kept the faces together due to the texture

I then added collision for all of them

After I started working on the torches

Again using UDK man as a scale I created a cylinder 

I added an edge and scaled out the bottom

I added two edges and scaled them to making it more like a bowl

I then brought the top edge up

I then added another edge to make it more like a bowl again

I now decided to uv it

I also unitized these because they would share the same texture 

I then added collision

After to finish the assets off I decided to make a base for the character to stand on instead of a chair, because I would be able to place it in a more interesting pose; so again with UDK man as scale I created a box

I added two edges and changed the shape

Here are the uv’s I created, I put some faces together as the texture wouldn’t be any different

This is the end of this blog