On a brief visit to Tallinn I am absorbing the beautiful and diverse styles of archicture and details of the buildings. First off the simple shapes in the “street furniture”. It reminds me of the simple concepts of Graphic Design that I completed with Coursera. The angular edges onto a usually rounded arc are particularly…
This week was spent understanding particle emitters using the Pluralsight course. As I watched, I took some printscreens and made some notes in a live Word document. The following emitters were covered: Sprite Emitters GPU Sprite Emitters Mesh Particle Emitters Ribbon Particle Emitters Beam Particle Emitters Anim Trail Particle Emitters Sub UV Particle Systems Optimizing…
This week I tried to bring it back to basics with Unreal! Instead of going off on tangents I wanted to figure out how to do simple things like sound, putting in a camera, how to do an animation…. and also playing with it. It was probably the first week I actually just had fun…
This week has been more about connecting with people in the VR world more than actually learning. I met with VRAI and discussed what they are working on. It’s really exciting how they are combining training with VR. One of the biggest questions I had was what is big in VR at the moment. The…
I’ve been following the Unreal Academy and it’s pretty tough going. I am enjoying my 45minutes stints as recommended by my lecturer. What I really like is that the tests really make you think. Like learning any new area, its the lingo that can put you off. The orientation of the window is slightly different…
Today I really started into Unreal Engine. I continued with Unreal Academy‘s very informative tutorials. It was a bit of content importing from another project. The big thing about Unreal is that you migrate Assets/ Instead of copying and pasting files in the Back-end which is what you do with Maya.(Not very helpful particularly when…