Sunday, June 7, 2009

Lighting & Rendering and Animation in 3D Max

Lighting in 3D Max 2009

"http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Interior-lighting-with-Mental-Ray/42681"

http://www.bluesfear.com/tutorials/3Dlighting.php


Rendering with the default engine in 3D Max:
"http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/clayrender_stealth/"

Animation in 3D Max
http://digitalartsguild.com/_tutorials/3dsmax/local_coordinates_teapot.html

Designing Process

1. I started by measuring the maximum resolution of my PC. Prototyping it with paper to simulate the screen size. As I always look to gaming environment, what make them appealing the visual used when change to full size. Will check in Flash how to set the window size when publishing in Action Script.Here http://www.unitconversion.org/typography/centimeters-to-pixels-y-conversion.html that I used to convert from cm to pixel.

2. This is my first day to start over all 3D Max stuff using 3D Max 2009 in the lab. So,now I am going to model a "movie box review". I want to use "cube" that has 6 faces to locate a 6 movie review for 6 different category that I plan for. The animation,horror,special,romantic,comedy and action.So,the idea is I want to apply UV Mapping technique for texturing the 6 faces of cube with 6 different 2D image that will be designed in Photoshop. For interactivity I am going to apply rotation technique control by the user. Don't know how?But will figure out. Following are steps should be considered for this scene concept:
2.1 Create 6 2D image to present a movie review.This will archieved
by copy paste activity on the web and do referencing in the
documentation.
2.2 Modelling a cube,UV Mapping and lighting.
2.3 Figure out how to apply interactive rotation animation.

Currently, I am downloading 3D Max 2009 from the OEM website.Took hours to download.well not the registered one.Cost me like $165 including transaction fee.I really hope can install the software on my laptop to speed up the process and I can work more on my project in comfortable manner.That said,the lab PC isn't so bad although sometime crash but no photoshop,other graphic software instead of paint in this PC.And editing picture using Paint ,huh, really "paint"ful.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Flash Action Script 3.0

This resources that I found out really useful for me to complete Assignment 3 for this course. While, I don't really have time to get support. Also, to avoid any disappointment when throwing question about Action Script 3 particularly in programming for my application. I really think that I don't really get a real support that I needed for this course so be independence is the only approach to get me pass this course.So, here is the adobe video that I found at F1 documentation in Flash CS4.I am really happy after watch this video.




The most basic interactivity ever in Action Script 3.0:


Including using Tween class in the following video:



Drag and drop tutorial in Action Script 3:
http://monkeyflash.com/tutorials/flash-drag-and-drop/

The following video is about editing sound using SoundBooth CS4. Also I found in F1 Flash CS4 documentation:



Finally I found this. So, glad.
http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/swfload/index.html





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