Week4-Independent Task

Adding rain&clouds in the map screenshots

Week4-Tutorial task

1.

This is the picture I chose from the lecture-JMW Turner//Buttermere Lake

2.

Before with my new Skybox

After with my new Skybox

Week3-Reflection

This week's lecture was about "Picturesque", I've learned a few theories of that how to create a picturesque landscape. The Repton's guidelines rules made me very impressive and I found it was really helpful: A picturesque landscape was divided by 3 parts-A foreground; A middle ground; A background.

• A foreground: regular, geometrical and designed for human use.
• A middle ground: a serpentine park in the manner of Lancelot Brown.
• A background: natural scenery, as little affected by man as possible.

I plan to use these rules to apply on creating my picturesque island.

Week3-Independent Tasks

Due to the Cryengine was kept stopping working and failed to save, I haven't got good images to show my custom island. The above is a video showing my working process. I need to start editing a new terrain.

Thisi is my 5th reference image which is from William Gipin's work.

Adding vegetation to terrain

Ground&mountain paint on terrain

Time of day change

Edit sun direction, colour of sky & sun& moon, stars density

Week 3-Tutorial Tasks

Claude Lorrain

William Gilpin

Capability Brown

Humphrey Repton

JMW Turner

 West Lake; Hangzhou

Reference:
1.claude lorrain:
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=h3eOF6aBkvQYX8CCqDwsYA&pq=west+lake%3B+hangzhou&cp=14&gs_id=e&xhr=t&q=claude+lorrain&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=GsoNUtG2F6iZiQeZ0oDABA#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=-W38R42DAoaLLM%3A%3BB0y0Vj3OwkBNlM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fuploads7.wikipaintings.org%252Fimages%252Fclaude-lorrain%252Fa-view-of-the-roman-campagna-from-tivoli.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.wikipaintings.org%252Fen%252Fclaude-lorrain%252Fa-view-of-the-roman-campagna-from-tivoli%3B1505%3B1080
2.William Gilpin:
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=h3eOF6aBkvQYX8CCqDwsYA&pq=west+lake%3B+hangzhou&cp=14&gs_id=e&xhr=t&q=claude+lorrain&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=GsoNUtG2F6iZiQeZ0oDABA#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d8da6eb3787b37ac&hl=en&q=William+Gilpin&sa=1&tbm=isch&um=1&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=RQ_UOIviRvVdIM%3A%3BwasxoKHUzL6cYM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.tate.org.uk%252Fart%252Fimages%252Fwork%252FT%252FT09%252FT09542_10.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.tate.org.uk%252Fart%252Fartworks%252Fgilpin-mountains-and-lakes-t09542%3B1536%3B1449
3.Capability Brown:
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=h3eOF6aBkvQYX8CCqDwsYA&pq=west+lake%3B+hangzhou&cp=14&gs_id=e&xhr=t&q=claude+lorrain&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=GsoNUtG2F6iZiQeZ0oDABA#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d8da6eb3787b37ac&hl=en&q=Capability+Brown&sa=1&tbm=isch&um=1&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=J0_bq6W5oCT4eM%3A%3BSlJbcndjlxbwVM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F3.bp.blogspot.com%252F-0lWtOulbEfc%252FT_HvIb_N7DI%252FAAAAAAAAAD0%252FvCybdHn3Zeo%252Fs1600%252FIMG_0540.JPG%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fassociationofgardenstrusts.blogspot.com%252F2012%252F07%252Fcapability-brown-tercentenery.html%3B1600%3B1200
4.Humphrey Repton:
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=8NMQu9N6V2BFvkruWhNDNg&cp=15&gs_id=4&xhr=t&q=humphry+repton&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.50768961,d.dGI&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=MMwNUoKqKZChiQem64A4#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=hzB45iutk-JGmM%3A%3Bn4ptaALV6R0YKM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themorgan.org%252Fcollections%252Fworks%252Frepton%252Fimages%252FMoreImages%252Flarge%252Fpml_46448_on.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.themorgan.org%252Fcollections%252Fworks%252Frepton%252Fredbook.asp%253Fid%253DMore%3B1500%3B484
5.JMW Turner
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=dCX6NqXMdV1cQ3JZKqdMVA&pq=humphry+repton&cp=10&gs_id=5&xhr=t&q=jmw+turner&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=bswNUrLsJqmhigfZ_IFo#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=8V5gdzKhSDzqtM%3A%3BO_Z9olyYROJfLM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fc300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com%252Fjmw-turner-monte-rosa-1360176242_b.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fpictify.com%252F368721%252Fjmw-turner-monte-rosa%3B600%3B450
6.West Lake：
https://www.google.com.au/search?gs_rn=25&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=h3eOF6aBkvQYX8CCqDwsYA&pq=west+lake%3B+hangzhou&cp=14&gs_id=e&xhr=t&q=claude+lorrain&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&biw=1920&bih=979&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=GsoNUtG2F6iZiQeZ0oDABA#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=d8da6eb3787b37ac&hl=en&q=west+lake&sa=1&tbm=isch&um=1&facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=KwqL0A7E7j5BIM%3A%3BABx2Hht4S5kn4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F3%252F39%252FChina_Hangzhou_Westlake.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fcommons.wikimedia.org%252Fwiki%252FFile%253AChina_Hangzhou_Westlake.jpg%3B1024%3B768

Week 2-Reflection

In week 2's lecture, Rusell talked about the "real&unreal".It was about how we focusing on objects act when put under certain conditions. For example, how does light reflect of different surfaces, various ways of observing objects act under certain conditions and how they fall apart and change during the process.
This can put into relation to my first assignment, I'm trying to create a island with specific landform  and to apply a custom terrain texture suitable for my island's climatic conditions to express a sense of loneliness and peculiarity,  they're based on my last letter of my last name and last number of my student ID.

Week2-Independent Tasks

Terrain with textures

Week 1-Reflection

The lecture last week introduced about Sandbox and which really changes my mind. Sandbox is not only a game to provide players fun, it is a powerful program and everyone can have a try to edit it. I've now learned the true strength of Sandbox. I have great interests to work on with Sandbox later on. The lecture also gave us ideas about how the course was being organized, issues about experiment one and maker's expect, some example of past assignments, and the details of what we can achieve by working with the program, which are huge helpful for me.

Week1-Independent Tasks

5 shortcuts and buttons:

• Q-A toggle that allows the camera to pass through terrain.
• Ctrl+G-jump to in Game Mode.
• M-open Material Editor
• Ctrl+F1-set the camera position
• Shift+F1-load the present camera position

3 different ways of moving around your level:

• Press "w" key to fly forward
• Click "Alt+ Scroll " will rotate the camera around, allowing free movement when used with WASD.
• Press the right button on the mouse will look around the environment

5 ways to customize Sandbox editor setup:

• When there are a lot of different windows, merge all of them into one window with different tabs. Each tab have the content of those windows that just merge.
• Making hot key is possible, it's simple to go custom>keyboard.
• On Customize tab, in the option part "Show Shortcut.." button can be activated to show shortcut buttons on the screen.
• Panels on tool bar can be turned on/off by right clicking on empty space and ticking and un-ticking it.
• Increase the number of toolbar, go to Tool>Customize Keyboard(on the first tab click "New")>input the name>press ok.

Week2-Tutorial Tasks

1. Find 5 reference images of different landscapes.

Tibet landscape-my country of origin
The height above sea level of this place is very high and the temperature is  extremely low. There is few population however many rare species of animals alive here, and the scenery is amazing.

West Lake, Hang Zhou-my country of origin
Xi Hu is famous for its water and its historic surroundings, there is different sceneries during  different seasons, a large amount of plants on the mountains. The sunset view of Xi Hu creates a sense of peaceful and immersing.

The snow mountain in Japan
The mountain, house, trees and surroundings all is recovered by thick  snows under the blue sky, seems very quiet village there and lives of people are simple but happy.

The Sinai Desert in Egypt
There is no water and human in the picture, also there is no footprint on the sand seems no one comes here. The boundless sands creates a sense of extending and endlessness.

The terrian created by Geocontrol 2&Crysis