Virtual Environments : 2012

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Unwrap UVW

Unwrap UVW

Made a Box from the primitives and made it a editable poly while then adding the modifier Unwrap UVW. The next thing to do was to use the edit button which brought up another window.

I would then click on the + on the Unwrap UVW to bring up vertex, Edge and Face. Would click on the Face and highlight all the faces and then click on the Mapping and flatten the UVW to bring up 6 squares of each face on the object.

I would then rearrange the UVW to make it more suitable. To make it look like this. This would make it into more of a cube shape, if you would fold it up if you were making it from paper or card in general.

The next step was to put this put the unwarp UVW into a photo editing software which I used Photoshop. I would then make a new layer and put a background on that new layer so anything within the unwarp UVW would get textured when the texture went back into 3ds max

The next step was then to put this into the material editor in 3ds max and then attach the material to the UVW object and this round then be placed around the box to make it a Dice.

Smoothing

Smoothing

In the tutorial today I was checking out the smoothing tool to see what it done. The first thing what I done was to make a sphere and removed all the smoothness because the whole primitive shape by default smoothed. So the smoothness tool was cleared so the sphere would regain its roughness.

While selecting the polygons and then selecting a number for the smoothness, this added smoothness feel to the sphere. And the rest of the sphere was still rough.

While selecting different polygons and then selecting a different number would make it with a different shade of textures by using the smooth tool.

The next thing I done was to do the same thing and made the sphere with 4 different sections of smoothness, so this gave different types of smoothness.

The next image has the two different types of smoothness both joined together by using two of the same smoothness numbers and giving both of them having a different number. Say one has number 1 and the other has 2, you would give the two the number 3, and this would give the same smoothness to whatever is selected

The last image is the sphere just having one number attached to it so the whole thing would be in the same smoothness with no different shades.

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Asset List

Aircraft Noise
Bombs Dropping
Bombs moving in water
Bombs Exploding
Boat Engine Noises
Pen Signing a name

Firsts weeks Research

Facts about attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese

The attack took place on December 7, 1941.
Japansese force consisted of six carriers with 423 planes.
At 6 a.m. the first Japanese attack wave of 83 planes took off.
Three prime targets escaped damage, the U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, the Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga. They were not in the port when the attack took place.
Another target, the base fuel tanks also escaped damage.
Casualties included 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians.
1178 people were wounded.
The attack was the climax of a decade of worsening relations between the U.S. and militaristic Japan.
The Japanese fleet had 30 ships.
The attack was planned weeks in advance.
The main reason for the attack was over economic issues.
Of the eight battleships, all but the Arizona and Oklahoma were eventually repaired and returned to service.
A U.S. Army private who noticed the large flight of planes on his radar screen was told to ignore them because a flight of B-17s from the continental U.S. was expected at the time.
Pearl Harbor was not in the state of high alert when the attack started, Anti-Aircraft guns were left unmanned.
The main targets for the first wave was the airfield and battleships.
The second wave targets were other ships and shipyard facilities.

• By the summer of 1940, the United States had cracked Japan's top-secret diplomatic code, nicknamed "Purple [wiki]." This enabled U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor messages to and from Tokyo.

• Although several U.S. command posts received machines for decoding "Purple," Pearl Harbor was never given one.

• Messages intercepted in the autumn of 1941 suggested what the Japanese were planning:

› On October 9, 1941, Tokyo told its consul in Honolulu to "divide the water around Pearl Harbor into five sub-areas and report on the types and numbers of American war craft."

› The Japanese foreign minister urged negotiators to resolve issues with the U.S. by November 29, after which "things are automatically going to happen."

› On December 1, after negotiations had failed, the navy intercepted a request that the Japanese ambassador in Berlin informed Hitler of an extreme danger of war ... coming "quicker than anyone dreams."

On the Other Hand
• Although the United States had cracked top-secret Japanese codes several years earlier, "the fact is that code-breaking intelligence did not prevent and could not have prevented Pearl Harbor, because Japan never sent any messages to anybody saying anything like 'We shall attack Pearl Harbor,'" writes military historian David Kahn in the autumn 1991 issue of Military History Quarterly.

• "The [Japanese] Ambassador in Washington was never told of the plan," Kahn says, "Nor were other Japanese diplomats or consular officials. The ship of the strike force were never radioed any message mentioning Pearl Harbor. It was therefore impossible for cryptoanalysts to have discovered the plan. Despite the American code breakers, Japan kept her secret."

• Actually, Washington had issued a warning to commanders at Pearl Harbor a few weeks earlier. On November 27, 1941, General George Marshall sent the following message: "Hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat CANNOT, be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first over act. This policy should not, repeat NOT, be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might jeopardize your defense."

• But the commanders at Pearl Harbor were apparently negligent. The base should have at least been on alert, but the antiaircraft guns were unmanned and most people on the base were asleep when the attack came.