Btec Games: Btec Game: Unit 66: 3D Modelling

Use of 3D in modern media

3D in TV: 3D in Films/shows is just a casuality. That isn’t special anymore. Every movie/show is 3D except Cartoons/Animes.

3D not 3D

3D
2D

3D in Games: In games 3D is a usual tool to give the player the feeling that he’s in the game. Like in FPS games or any game on the “Oculus Rift” which is just a headset with a split screen in it. The split screen is the reason why the brain thinks it’s a 3D situation. Rayman for example started as a 2D platformer but then the Rayman games became 3D platformer because in that time it was necessary for the development studios to turn their games 3D to sell anything. But in the games Rayman Legends/Origins they changed their style back to the roots.

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3D Models from Blendswap.

http://prezi.com/hm5o1d7_wxfo/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

3D artists

http://popplet.com/app/#/2180085
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2D Game review

Zombie Tactics

Zombie tactics is a round based strategy game developed on the flash engine and made by Epace Games. The game was published on Funny Games and I found it on NotDoppler. The game starts with a nurse, a lumberjack and a retired soldier. They are talking about that there were outbreaks in the prisons nearby. The first fight starts. The battleground is a field that is patterned in hexagons. These hexagons are the fields where the characters stand on. Every character is able to walk 2 fields for free and 5 fields with loosing stamina. The stamina is necessary for the characters to use their skills. There are 3 characters in the beginning: a nurse, a lumberjack and an old or retired soldier.

The nurse’s skill she’s starting with is a healing skill that heals everything in a radius of one field. The lumberjack has got a single target melee attack. The soldier has got a bow with which he’s shooting on zombies. There are characters coming in the group later in the game with different skills to keep the game interesting after a long period of time spending with playing it.

After every round the characters get experience points (XP) and gold. The XP makes the character level up. For every level the player can unlock new skills or upgrade those. With the gold the player is able to buy items that buff the characters.The Items buff things like health, stamina and damage. They can be found or bought from the merchant (the guy with the beard on the lower right.)

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house

alien egg

crate

human 1

human 2

human 3

alien 1

alien 2

alien 3

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TOOLS I USED

Blender 3D

This is the mirror tool. It’s used to get 2 or more completely identical models. I use it to get 2 completely identical halves of a model.

This is the Subdivision Surface tool. It’s used to make the model smoother by subdividing the surfaces in a smooth way.

This is the vertices selection tool. The name explains the use.

This is the surface selection tool. This name explains the tool too

This is the extrusion tool. It is used to extrude surfaces by creating 4 new surfaces expanding under the selected surface, pushing it forward.

This is the manipulating tool. It’s used to move vertices, edges and surfaces on the Z,X and Y axis.

This is the scale tool which is used to scale models, parts, surfaces and edges.

This is the vertices selection tool. Name explains tool.

This is the subdivision tool and the subdivision smooth tool. They are used to subdivide a surface smooth or just plain.

This is the shading tool. It can shade a model smooth or flat.

Unity

Play tool. It’s used to test the game that is in progress to see if everything works out

Perspective manipulator tool: With that tool the developer can control the view on the game during the development

Import new asset tool: With that tool the developer is allowed to import assets he created on himself or from external sources like Blendswap or the official Unity website.