Joseph Board

T440

Final Assignment

The scene that I built for this semester was a Chinese landscape. I got my idea from a game that I had saw. The game that I got my idea from was Guild Wars Faction. When I saw some of the landscape screen shots I told to myself I could build something like this. So that is how I got stuck building another Asian environment. For the most part, I was please how the scene turn out, but it is still is a work in process.

One of the things I want to do in this project was have a nice transition between textures. I was not able to get the results I wanted. I wanted to have grass and rock textures blend naturally like in nature. I turn out to look more man made, which is all right because one of the ideas for this project was to give the idea that people live in this little world.

I used mental ray to render out screen shots to get a better renders of my project. Mental ray does more for a project than Maya software. For the trees and plants I used pngs made in Photoshop to make the leaves. I used an ambient light to get a shadow effect and ray tracing. I had directional lights in the project but I took them out because they were doing something weird.