Week 6: Progess

This week I went through a range to textures in the unity assets store and picked the ones that I believe would best suite the church, below are just some of the many that I through and the ones that I finally picked.

This is the main texture that I have chosen for the building, it will cover mainly the walls.

I have chosen a different texture concrete texture for the window sills and the concrete lining around the building.  

 

 For the roof I have to go for a concrete based brick as during that time it would have been a convenient material to use at the time to hold up and stay good in a range of climates.

 This is the texture that I chose for the gutters around the roof and the flaps on the windows that are located on top of the tower.

The roof on the inside of the building is made out of would this old wood plank texture was used for that purpose.


References for the textures:

All the texture looked at and that were purchased for the church are from the unity assets store.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1295

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1274

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1291

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1282

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/8938

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1309

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1301

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1277

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1293

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1285

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1523

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1297

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1527

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/11322

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1690

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1672

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1198

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1690

Week 6: Reflections

Communication

The Last Supremist Sculpture

Thantrong, Andrew
Hanna, Marina


Starting off with a video on communication, it was able to tell us briefly about communication; however the presentation did not demonstrate as much, how communication relates their project.
Because they are a pair to see how the two of them have been communicating and put the work together would have been good way to explain their idea of communication and how they go about it.

The Bus Stop of the Future.

Masli, Martha
Chami, Anthony
Skarparis, Kerre
Weinman, Darren
Olivera, Daniel

Although we ran out of time, to see what feedback they got from the tutors I feel that this group demonstrated the idea of communication very well. They were able to show us the many forms of communication but I feel like the other group they were not able to
show us clearly how communication fit into their project. Overall great ending to the presentation with the video really well edited.

Understanding of communication in relation to my group

Communication was the topic that our group also presented on. Communication can happen in many ways and I believe that the group has been utilising most of them. The two main types are synchronous and asynchronous ways of communication for example our main form of communication is asynchronous as we are communicating mainly through facebook and this often takes some time for certain team members to get back to us instantly. We do have weekly group meetings this allows us to see how everyone is going in the group on their assigned parts and get feedback from our tutors this would be considered an example of synchronous. Our overall presentation went really well and the feedback that we received from the tutors was great. A few negative comments that we need to work on are looking at communication with the client and little further and have better referencing.

Week 5: Reflections

Planning

Aerial Ropeway in a World Heritage Environment

McMahon, Bethany Louise
Park, Maria Eun Ji
Parto, Daisy Danica
Hoda, Iqra Faria
Nguyen, Yen Nhien
Portokalli, Matthew Louis


The Aerial Ropeway group had a well thought out presentation by assigning certain tasks to each one of the team members and having deadlines as part of their planning process, it seems like a good way to stay organised and on track. Although many of us may have an idea of what we believe planning is and how to do it, this group was able to give us a further insight into how to plan for your project, for example using a Gantt chart to get certain things done at specific times. To end their presentation they had a well edited and enjoyable video.

The Bus Stop of the Future.

Lo, Jason How Ying
Alagah, George
Gan, Ruo Qi
Naumovski, Michael
Tang, Kangyi


The bus stop of the future group I believed had a better understanding of planning than the first because they have to work off a budget and be very cautious with time, they have had to think about planning for their project very closely and it was seen very clearly in their presentation. I’ve realised this group is well organised and have a clear indication of where they are headed. Can’t wait to see the final product.

Understanding of planning in relation to my group

I believe planning is being able to set certain tasks and goals and being able to meet their deadlines.
The planning process is something that is continuous through the whole project. Using a Gantt chart is something that kept coming up in many of the group’s presentations which seem like a good planning tool to use. I believe this is something that our group needs to establish. Although it does not set an accurate time frame in regards to completing the tasks and goals as it does not take into account any problems that we may encounter, it gives us a rough indication and could help with being able to fix up any problems on time.
By planning weekly meetings and distributing the workload evenly we should be able to get the data base running and be able to go a little further and adding that little bit extra to the project.

Week 4: Progress

This week was the groups chance to get to know the client John James and find out what he wants us to complete for the project and how he in visions it. We got the chance to ask him any questions we were unsure about the project and make it clearer.

The following points are some of the things that I picked up from John speaking to us:

- The audience that the project is aimed at is more for academics, historians and scholars.
- He wants the unity and the data base to be easily editable so that other buildings can be easily linked up without having to make any huge changes.
- He wants a set of instructions that anyone can follow without any trouble to show how to link the data base with buildings, this can be written or shown in a video whatever is easier.
- Keep the textures, and colours of the church similar to ones set in Sketchup.
- Originally there was two main churches assigned to us that we were asked to work on John James made it clear that he only wants us to work on in particular and if we have progressed enough by the end of April he will give us another to work on.
- What is put together now will be demonstrated to a few academics in London to make the project bigger, and expand it.

During our studio session each of the groups were assigned their collaboration presentation topics, the group chose to go with COMMUNICATION. This topic fits really well with the project that we are doing, as it's also based on communicating information to a certain audience using unity.

For the week my focus was to learn, different ways to add shaders and textures in unity, after going through many tutorials on Youtube, I feel confident enough to change them on the model.

Below are some of the youtube videos that were really helpful to me when learning how to apply textures and shaders. They were all quick and easy to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op10dBJ69dU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTTGKDRy14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6iquaC0Hf4

Week 3: Progress

This week as a group we presented, to Russell, Stephen and the rest of our peers using a Power-point presentation to tell them what we think the project is about and what our back brief is. Together we managed to come up with an aim for the project.

Aim: To create a reliable visual database subjecting to Gothic architecture, whilst design and efficient and simple user interface the general public can access and use with ease.

Below is a link to the Presentation that the group put and presented together:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jn87g162w58ly2v/6yVi0B85n5/GOTHIC%20ARCHITECTURE.pptx

My original understanding of the project is that we need to create a visual database that people can access whilst travelling or even while they are at home without moving from their seats, that will allow them to see and find out certain information about an object or feature in a building they are looking at and may want to know about.
After discussing the project with the group, I now see it a little more clearer and understand a little more what is need for the project, and believe that the aim we have come up with is on the right track.

The project still seems a little unclear though, to the group over all, hopefully we will get a chance to get in contact with the client and hear it from John James himself as to what he really wants to get out of us from this project.

As a group we went through certain roles that people may want to take on and assigned them, my role for the project is to work on shaders and textures and renaming parts in Sketchup so that it will line up later on with the data base. We agreed as a group that although we have been assigned certain roles each, it will also be a good idea to help out with other roles when needed.


For this week I decided to start working on the project and my particular role by doing some research on the building and finding as many images as possible of the church so that I know what kind of textures to look for the church.
There wasn't much information about the church and I was not able to find many images, the ones that I did find are below: (These do not include the ones given to us)

http://en.patrimoine-de-france.com/aisne/cerseuil/eglise-1.php 

http://jeanjacques8420.fond-ecran-image.com/blog-photo/mes-clochets/ 

It was also time to start learning how to use unity, through Youtube and Unity forum online i was able to pick up a few things that would help when it comes to using the engine below are a couple of many videos and sites that have been useful in learning unity.

http://forum.unity3d.com/forum.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xr5Rc9Rw6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbm9lPB5GPw

Week 2: Group Allocation

This week each one of us were put into groups based on our CV's, the project that I have been assigned is; CREATION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

Group members that I have been put with are:

- Bassel Wannous
- Anthony Constantinidis
- Benjamin Hur
- Xiaodong Fan
- Yaoyu Xiao

Seen below is an image of one of the main churches that we have been assigned to work on it is called Cerseuil, located in France.

http://jeanjacques8420.fond-ecran-image.com/blog-photo/mes-clochets- Date Retrieved 10/04/2014

For our task in week three we have been asked to put together a  back brief which includes our understanding of what the project is about, what it needs to include and how we plan on putting it all together using Sketch Up and Unity.

Week1: Target CV

Below is the link to my CV:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4yhry7moeqn5w9/Targeted%20CV-LaurenSeif.pdf