Reflection

The model has been finished and now i'm reflecting on the process. I wish I made these reflections straight after some of the problem solving. I did take screen shots of what I was doing during the process, but it still would be much better if I took the time to reflect straight afterwards.

Trying to get everything done Danielle, Myrna and I set ourselves tasks. After being unoficcially set the task to deal with the problems of the model of the building it was past on to Myrna to "clean it up." Danielle was still busilly trying to finish the terrain. We took it account what the tutors said about the environment around the building; it's just as important as the building. Therefore Dani spent most of the time trying to figure out the problems on how to surround the model of the biulding and how to make a beautiful garden. Myrna had a lot on her plate, the building had a lot of issues because it was done in Revit. Looking back I would never do it in a CAD program again, there were to many problems to deal with. Anyways Myrna fixed all those problems. I began with the task of making, finding furniture and objects to dress the building and mapping all the furniture. It was a long process trying to find all the objects and map them. Whenever someone needed an object i would find and map it. Something I learnt is to check if the objects and materials work constantly. I Have the pictutres to prove that I was doing that.

Having Susanne overseas and in charge of sound we were worried about not having it in time to put in the model. So I took the initiative to learn sound on Monday night. At about 12am we received the sounds and we put them in tuesday afternoon. It was esay to learn, but one thing we couldn't figure out is how to change the default sound of footsteps; it was too loud and not the sound we wanted for our model. I tried all night and morning to find a solution -- no can do. Myrna tried the next morning but couldn't find. We asked Graduation Project students but they didn't know since they are not dealing with sound. I asked other members in our class but again no one knew. I asked Graham he suggested applying the sound to the material. Myrna tried but it didn't work. So we just left the sounds of whispering, the naration of the paintings and the introduction at the beginning of the door. I also figured how to do fog.

Priscilla was in charge of the lighting, she came in Tuesday to do it, once it was done we continued on, but our computer had crashed at about 7pm and we lost 4 hours of work. we tried everything but we couldn't recover it. The lighting was lost. Danielle, Myrna and I sat around the computer to try figure out the best way to do lighting. We weren't that happ with the colouring of the original lights so we changed it to a light shade of orange to give the lighting some depth. It did work. In the end we weren't that happy with the lights. Triggers weren't working as we hoped they would be. In the end I am very proud of what we had all achieved, I love our model. We had so many problems that we had to deal with and we did. What we learnt we shared across other students. I even showed a Grad Project student how to map. What we learnt is valuable. Everyone learnt something in our group and we shared it at the end, for example; Myrna showed me how to cut and re-make faces in Max, Danielle showed us terrain and I showed them how to Map objects in Max and create materails in UT3, fog and sound.

In the end I am very proud of our group.