Common household objects was the theme of the final project in my 3D modeling class. I made a Gillette Mach 3 Razor.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Unity 3D: Tidal Fury
single player
two player split-sceen
Tidal Fury is a game that pits two boats against each other in head to head combat. The game was coded in Java using the Unity 3D game engine. This was a group project, my part was coding the game play, and modeling and animating one of the boats (the red one).
The project presented many unique programming challenges; Realistic buoyancy for the boats, split-screen multiplayer, a mini-map, a cannon that adjusts for the rocking of the boat using a counter weight, a homing missile that locks on to a player when they are within range, and cannon bullets that skip off the surface of the water.
One of the more interesting challenges was handling the 3D sound for both players. Unity 3D has built in code for handling 3D sound. There is a sound source, an object that emits a sound from a specific location, and a sound listener, the object that picks up that sound and outputs it to the left and right speaker channels in a way that simulates depth. But, add another player, and you need 2 sound listeners, which is not allowed by Unity. To get around this we had a single sound listener for both players. When a sound is played, it spawns a sound source relative to the sound listener. So, if there is an explosion between player1 and player2, the closest player to that explosion is found, then the relative distance from that player to the explosion is calculated. This relative distance is then given to the sound listener object, which spawns a sound source in an equivalent relative distance from itself.
The project presented many unique programming challenges; Realistic buoyancy for the boats, split-screen multiplayer, a mini-map, a cannon that adjusts for the rocking of the boat using a counter weight, a homing missile that locks on to a player when they are within range, and cannon bullets that skip off the surface of the water.
One of the more interesting challenges was handling the 3D sound for both players. Unity 3D has built in code for handling 3D sound. There is a sound source, an object that emits a sound from a specific location, and a sound listener, the object that picks up that sound and outputs it to the left and right speaker channels in a way that simulates depth. But, add another player, and you need 2 sound listeners, which is not allowed by Unity. To get around this we had a single sound listener for both players. When a sound is played, it spawns a sound source relative to the sound listener. So, if there is an explosion between player1 and player2, the closest player to that explosion is found, then the relative distance from that player to the explosion is calculated. This relative distance is then given to the sound listener object, which spawns a sound source in an equivalent relative distance from itself.
Player 1: Air-Boat Tank
Hybrid Pinball/Video Game: Making pinball popular again.
Problem: Pinball is no longer popular.
Overview:
Pinball is an interesting part of gaming history that is now dead in the eyes of the mainstream gaming audience. In a broader scope, pay-to-play arcade games are pretty much dead. Arcade games, like pinball, just can't compete with the kind of sophisticated play experiences one can have at home. However, people still enjoy arcade style gaming that incorporates new interesting ways to play, think DDR, guitar hero/rock band, Wii, Xbox connect. You could place all these into a category of games that offer a unique tactile experience, and they were all very successful because of that factor.
Overview:
Pinball is an interesting part of gaming history that is now dead in the eyes of the mainstream gaming audience. In a broader scope, pay-to-play arcade games are pretty much dead. Arcade games, like pinball, just can't compete with the kind of sophisticated play experiences one can have at home. However, people still enjoy arcade style gaming that incorporates new interesting ways to play, think DDR, guitar hero/rock band, Wii, Xbox connect. You could place all these into a category of games that offer a unique tactile experience, and they were all very successful because of that factor.
Graphic Design: Corporate Executive Club
This is the front and back of a business card I made while working for Corporate Executive Club (CEC). CEC is an Orlando based company that hosts social events for executives to meet other execs and people in a variety of industries.
The card was made using Inkscape, an open source clone of Adobe illustrator, and Gimp, an open source clone of Photoshop.
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