Doing Shady Stuff on Thanksgiving at Miguel's House

Accomplishments

• Researched shaders and attempted to write a shader while following tutorials (6 hrs)

• Helped Anna set up some render files for her to render models over the break (.5 hrs)
• Rigged Sniper Superunit and Tank Superunit (1.5 hrs)
• Helped Anna fixed some exporting issues with the Kamikaze Superunit (0.5 hrs)
• Look at some bone structures of 4 legged animals and asked Desiree to redraw the front legs of the Rush Units (0.5 hrs)
• Put together what I would like to speak for the presentation on Tuesday (0.5 hrs)

Works In Progress?

Shader writing is the current task I am working on right now. I think it will come into handy for our team, so I decided to look more into it. As a technical artist in the team, I will try my best to make the shaders that I make work with the game. If not, we would probably have to do the traditional way of how we texture things, which itself can take a huge chunk of time out of the team. I rather have something working efficiently so that we can focus on something more important for our game. 

Other work that will be handed to me soon is of course, rigging stuff. Once the rig for Units are done, it is not hard to transfer the rig to the Superunit since the Unit and Superunit are closely related to each other. 

Next Steps

• Rigs
• Shader writing
• More scripts if necessary

Issues

• Thanksgiving week!! I went to Miguel's place to spend the Thanksgiving. We weren't really able to get much done during the week. I did a bit of Shader research and attempted to right a lambert shader. I didn't get way too far though. So instead, I'm using most of my time on Sunday to fill in the time to get as close to the minimum requirement as possible.
• There was some confusion about the front legs of the rush unit that Anna pointed out on Friday. I was a bit frustrated and confused about the point Anna was trying to make until she showed me the reference pictures of bone structures of 4 legged animals. That cleared things up a lot for me. I hope I am giving Desire the right direction as to how she should change the concept art while at the same time, not taking too much of her time. 

Last Minute Comments

A bit slow of a week since most people in our team are off campus and are unable to work as much as we should. But since it's the holiday, I wish everyone had a good amount of rest and will be able to push through the last two weeks of the term without much of a problem. 

Kai-Lin Chuang