Nyksund Project PresentationA walkthrough of my specialization

project 2007 Håkon Sandvold

Research and tutorials- Searching and reading info from links, forums and books.

- Testing and practicing tutorials from books and from the internet.

- Experiencing bugs and errors, getting to know the unreal-community.

- Collecting pictures and references from the real Nyksund.

- Collecting textures needed for my environment.

- Drawing sketches and designing mockup in 3D.

Modeling in Maya 7- Modeling my buildings and objects in Maya 7.

- Learning the demands and rules for exporting to the Unreal Editor 3.

- UV-mapping my models for export to the Unreal Editor 3.

Learning the Unreal Editor 3- Learning how to import static meshes.

- Learning how to use lights and how to create skyboxes.

- Learning how to create terrain and how to use the terrain-editor tools.

Compiling and building- When I felt safe with the pipeline of the Unreal Editor 3 I started to

build and develop my Nyksund environment.

- Learning how UVs that looks fine in Maya 7 not always works in the Unreal Editor 3. The same goes for triangulated models.

Tweaking and testing- A lot of testing and tweaking before i was somewhat satisfied with

my environment.

- Ideas for what could have been done better and what needs to be fixed before wrapping the project up.

Håkon Sandvold

Specialization Project gsCEPT

March 2007