Finished Lantern + Game Over Screen

Last class I had a substitute, and currently I'm having some issues with R2D2, so I decided that I would go back to work on the game that I am helping a friend with. As the title implies, I managed to finish the lantern, which had some difficulties rendering since my reference image somehow kept finding itself in the way despite being moved several times.

The image in the back is an HDR image, which is essentially an image sphere that will give the material i used some color to reflect, which reduces the effect of "black light" (basically the same effect as looking at a mirror in a dark room).

As for the game over screen, I downloaded some brush tools to use in Photoshop and used basic text on a black background. Not exactly the best game over screen in the world, but that can always be changed later if we decide to change it.

I feel like I should have used the splatter effects behind the words "Game Over" instead of in front of it, and I feel like there is also too much negative space in the back as well. I'll find out what to do with that later.

R2D2 Franken Leg

Today I managed to finish the shoulder joint for R2D2 (I called it the coupler in my last post. Could have sworn that was what the tutorial said... maybe I'm just crazy). In order to get the main leg section to stop hiding part of the shoulder joint, I had to create a duplicate shoulder joint and make it it longer so that I could use the Mesh>Booleans>Difference tool to remove the geometry hiding the shoulder joint. Now the joint looks like it's supposed to.

Devil Cube Finished + R2D2 Progress

So I finally finished the great cube challenge. Surprisingly enough it only took the first 10 minutes of class, today. This is how it turned out.

Also the weird shading on the sides was fixed by using Normals > Set Normal Angles. Essentially it fixes the normals of the vertices of the object.

Also I have made more progress on R2D2. Currently I am working on the coupler for the leg. This is what it looks like now.

The Great Cube Challenge: Part 2

Well I managed to fix the problem I was having the last time I talked about this. Unfortunately, I ran into another problem. When I try to merge vertices that are on top of each other, the extra vertices remain. This cube is evil.

All hail the dark lord, cube.

The Great Cube Challenge: Part 1

So as another side project I'm supposed to do, I have to do this thing called the great cube challenge, which I will leave a link to at the end of this post. Unfortunately, one of the tools (the append to polygon tool, to be specific) refuses to do what I need it to do. As much as I would hate to leave behind a mega disappointment as my screenshot of the project, I don't have much of a choice.

So yeah, there's that. Long story short, I'm already hating this thing.

The Great Cube Challenge: http://www.3dstudents.com/2014/01/mini-great-cube-challenge.html

I Did A Thing

Today my teacher had us screw around with particles, and I did this

Honestly not sure how I got here, and I need to learn how ambient light works, because I want the green to make a light glow off of the particles, not take over the entire particle.

R2D2

I have more progress on the R2D2 leg. Sadly I have hit a point where the tutorial no longer has pictures to show you what your result should look like. Gonna have to talk to the teacher about that one. That said, here is my progress.