Week 3_Task

a.  Find an image of work for these landscape painters / landscape architects / architects / gardens.


1. claude lorrain

                           
  source:           http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Claude_Lorrain_-_    Landscape_with_Nymph_and_Satyr_Dancing_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
                      

2. William Gilpin     

  

                                                                                                                           

http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/775/flashcards/564775/jpg/picturesquebeauty1320015270264.jpg

              

 3. Capability Brown

                    http://www.john-law.org.uk/standard/images/cct-rear.jpg         

 4. Humphrey Repton

                       http://austenonly.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/repton3271-correction.jpg  

 5. JMW Turner

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/328/b/1/JMW_Turner_assigment_II_by_shobey1kanoby.jpg

      

 6.West Lake; Hangzhou

http://www.absolutechinatours.com/UploadFiles/ImageBase/West-Lake-745923.jpg

Week 2_Task

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This is the landscape of Great Wall in China, this unique picture features the Great Wall is surrounded by lots of green trees and plants and Located in the high mountains, the Meandering road of Great Wall looks like a long snake.

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This is the landscape of Woraksan National Park in South Korea, it can be seen from this special landscape that there are a large amount of high mountainous and low islands which are covered with verdure on the rivers,you can also see a little scattered house hide between those high mountainous.

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  This is the landscape of Baobabs in Zambia, this unique picture features the scene of desolation. There are   two big withered trees in the middle of this picture, the sky looks yellow and dark and little green trees at a distance.

                                                 http://www.willgoto.com/1/146255/liens.aspx

This is the landscape of Anse Michel Beach in Sainte-Anne Peninsula, in Martinique. This spectacular view shows the wind rocked the coconut palms, blue seawater flap the beach and islands are covered with verdure on the beach.

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This is the landscape of Black Lake (Crno Lake) in Durmitor National Park, Northern Montenegro, this spectacular view shows lots of dense woods look like between the white clouds and clear lakes and the distant clouds and jungles seem from one body.

b. The island based on my name

 last letter of your last name: A
 last number of your student ID: 2

c.  5 images from different vantage points within my custom island

d. Reflection

According to this week study, I have learned how to use ‘GeoControl2’ to build my own island and apply it into ‘CryENGINE’. It is interesting to see that I can built many kinds of terrain texture I want, just though different expressing effecter. Additionally, I saw how to make the special effect in a movie in the lecture and this let me want to learn more about how to create the virtual environment but looks realistically by using computer.

 

e. Image showing custom terrain texture in landscape

Week 1_Independent Study

5 ways customize Sandbox editor setup.

1. If the mount of panels you have opened more than one, you can make all the panels to join together in one window.

2. Use 'Tools' menu to select toolbars that you want and create their own environment.

3. Click and drag the tabs to add to the viewport which can let windows does not flow around.

4. Use ‘preferences’ in the ‘open tools’ to set any color you wish to be the color of console background.

5. You can create the shortcut key by yourself, for example, you just need to press ctrl + S to save files and if you want to create a new shortcut key you can type any words you want and click ‘Assign’.

3 Different ways to move around the level are:

1. Use ‘w, a, s and d’ keys on your keyboard, they represent ‘move forward, left, move backward and right’ respectively.

2. Use left and right click + scroller on the mouse to move and look around.

3. Press Alt + click scroll mouse button to rotate camera around

5 shortcuts or buttons, and what each of their functions are.

1.      Press Ctrl + T to select objects.

2.       Press Ctrl + C to copy objects.

3.       Press ‘H’ on the keyboard to hide.

4.       Press ‘M’ on the keyboard to pull up the materials editor.

5.       Press Shift+F1 (or F2, 3, 4, etc use this function) to load the predefined camera positions.

Reflection

 According to this first week lecture, I have learnt a brief understanding of this course and I need to use a software called ‘Cryengine’ many times in this semester to create virtual environment but looks realistically. Actually, this software has enabled me to exert my imagination and I will make the most of the skills and methods which I have to master to create a successful and creative project. 

Week 1_Class Task

 5 things about the Sandbox folder structure.

1.Bin 32 and bin 64 where your game files are and editor’s tools are, the choice of 64 or 32 suits for whatever the system you are using and bin 64 is faster than 32.

2. Code file goes deeper, it explains script and examples of the game

3. Editor folder is what editor uses and you will never use it.

4. In game folder, the pak files are what really the game is, everything from animation, level, etc.

5. Error folder is for explaining what the steps to follow when the game crash and so on.

6. The Settingsmgr.exe must be opened up at least once, and make sure green light is on. And the directory is pointing to the right folder that is been working with. 

 10 tips and tricks related to the Sandbox User Interface

1.If you right click on 'Perspective' which on the top left corner, you can have different view points, modes and so on like wireframe mode and anther way to change the view point is pressing the key F3.

2. There are two numbers on the right side which means the resolution you are running and you can change the resolution you want by right clicking those two numbers.

3. Typing the object’s name in the ‘by name box’, so that it can just show the related entity you want and isolate the other entities at the same time.

4. The ‘lock selection’ at the bottom means you will lock the selection to the objects that you have selected at moment and it can only work with the objects you have selected.

5. The ‘speed’ input box means the camera speed of the perspective viewport and it can be set to a custom parameter.

6. Pressing ctrl+G you will be in game mode.

7. Turning on the ‘AI/Physics’, you will be in editor mode.

8. RollupBar is consists of four apartments which are creating tab, modifying tab, hiding and unhiding certain categories and managing layers.

9. ‘Export selected Geometry to .OBJ’ can help you to create new objects quickly and it will be exported to obj.

10. You can save group object and entities which can be stayed more organized and if you click the 'load object', the object that you have saved will be appeared.