{"id":310,"date":"2023-09-30T21:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T21:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/nomorevideogames\/?page_id=310"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:01:31","slug":"project-mood-place-blockout","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/nomorevideogames\/project-mood-place-blockout\/","title":{"rendered":"Project: One Minute Mood Place (blockout)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Create an expressive environment to be explored through a first person perspective, using only simple shapes or imported images.
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Your toolbox:<\/strong>
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Blockout tools<\/strong>: Probuilder<\/em> can make simple 3D volumes within the engine but they can\u2019t be very detailed, no organic forms, no easy way to make holes (booleans).
\nSabreCSG<\/em> allows you to sketch environments very quickly in engine.Check out #blocktober<\/a>
\nYou can blockout with blender or maya as well. Use the .blend file directly in the asset folder for fast iteration.
\nImages: <\/strong>You can import found images.
\nText:<\/strong> You can have UI text triggers or in the environment
\n<\/span>Terrain<\/strong>: you can use the terrain component sculpt reliefs from a plane, it can\u2019t do caves overhangs. It won’t do anything realistic by itself.
\n<\/span>Sound<\/strong>: you must add some kind of sound. You can add a looping soundscape and looping localized sounds.
\n<\/span>Materials<\/strong>: Don\u2019t use the default blockout grid. Solid colors or simple abstract textures are preferred for this assignment, you won’t have time to create environment art.
\n<\/span>Lighting<\/strong>: set skybox, environment lighting, fog, early on to set the mood etc.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Effects<\/strong>: you can add post processing effects, and particles.<\/span>
\nBorrowed assets:<\/strong> avoid stolen 3D assets since they will overdetermine the layout of your environment. We can negotiate exceptions if you have a good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

Expressive Environments<\/h3>\n

A Pattern Language for Expressive Environments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Brainstorm (blockout)<\/h2>\n

Pick two prompts and block out an environment that relates to both prompts in different parts of it:
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\nClaustrophobia
\nIntrospection
\nDanger
\nMadness
\nAltered state
\nVertigo
\nCoziness
\nStress
\nGrandness
\nMonotony
\nEndlessness
\nAscension
\nDescent<\/span><\/p>\n

– Try to solicit an emotional response through pure movement through space.
\n– The experience should last about 1 minute.
\n– Add an exit (I may stitch the scenes together)
\n– You must change the default skybox.<\/span>
\n– Read this chapter from Robert Yang\u2019s WIP book about level design: layouts<\/a>
\n– First Draw a map of your environment explaining all the pathways and the things a visitor will encounter. Post it in assignments.
\n– Incorporate a 3 patterns from the list<\/a>
\n– Use only simple untextured materials. Not the default grid.<\/p>\n

Assignment
\n<\/strong>-Complete your 1 minute mood place<\/p>\n

Exercise 3: Homeplay<\/h3>\n

Show and tell time.
\nPlay a game\/app either among the ones in the expressive environments page<\/a> or artwork or game of your choice that relates to your project. Present an aspect of it that you find interesting: a mechanic, an effect, a solution\u2026 you can give an overview of the work but try to focus on a narrow aspect and research it as much as you can.
\nAll presentations should be between 5 and 10 minutes and have audiovisual material (a simple video playthrough should be enough) to support it.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You can start from the sound place template<\/strong><\/a>, it has a character controller and some basic interaction scripts.<\/p>\n

Import probuilder from the package manager, see video below.
\nDownload SabreCSG<\/a> and install it, see videos below<\/p>\n

How do I move around in first person? (You can skip this one if it’s too basic)<\/p>\n