Week 5 - Tutorials / Environment Research

 

IN CLASS :

TUTORIALS

Looked into tutorials that would be handy for this assignment. Over looking at past assignments/ subject for useful tutorials one subject is BENV2423 stood out the most http://benv2423.rosamondkember.com/.

Task apointed to me is the environment and exporting textures and models into cryengine.

Bucket model: Reina
Aim: Place texture and export to cryengine

Steps: make sure the file exporter is set into the right file setting so the
exporter make the cgf files smoothly.

Texture : Roschelle
Make sure the textures are ready to be placed and saved
on the same file as Cryengine game files so no missing
textures later on with modelling. 

Bucket successfully exported in Cryengine test file.

GROUP PRESENTATION : PLANNINGThe are group who presented were The other "Aerial Ropeway" and "Bustop of the Future"

"Aerial Ropeway" - 
The presentation all together was great shown a lot of techniques on how to plan the assignment critically. The media used were good such as a video and Prezi. They elaborated on what they have planned for their team and organised each other on different categories of the assignment. 

"Bus Stop of the Future" - Micheal, Jason, George, Violet
The presentation were thought through though the visual guide was lacking as they only presented through wiki
Video was good and planning the thought out.

HOMEWORK :

ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH

Further research was needed to explore the actual vegetation that grows on the site. The native vegetations have categories.

Rainforest –

coachwoods and sassafras, expect to see smaller trees - including the lilly pilly, with its dark green glossy leaves and pink berries; possumwood, with its small white spring flowers; cedar wattle; pepper bush; and grey myrtle.

You'll see plenty of mosses and fungi

Ferns and other plants that can tolerate shade

coachwoods

cedar wattle

Ferns

Grassy woodlands –

Include scribbly gums, mountain spotted gums and grass trees. Beneath them, you'll find a more open and grassy understorey, with a rich shrubland community.

scribbly gums

Dry eucalyptus forest – 

Open eucalypt forests -  Eucalypts, including species like Sydney peppermint, black ash, red bloodwood, narrow-leafed stringy bark and hard-leaved scribbly gum. You'll also find turpentines, Sydney red gums and she-oaks, banksia, grevillea, wattle and hakea. Look out for mountain devils, waratahs, flannel flowers, wax flowers, drumsticks, geebungs, wild irises and 'egg and bacon' pea flowers.

In closed forests, the canopy is dense, closing out most of the sky. You'll find these vegetation communities in cool, damp gullies and sheltered lower slopes facing east or south. Closed forest plants need deep, moist, fertile soil - and, because of this, they tend to be much taller than those of the open forests.

Trees of the closed forest include the majestic blue gum, Blue Mountain mahogany, turpentine, ribbon gum, Blaxland's stringybark and Blue Mountains ash. Among the understorey, you'll find smaller trees like cedar wattles, Sydney red gums, Christmas bushes, blueberry ashes, tea-trees and black wattles.

Twisted around the trees, you'll see climbers like the clematis, wonga wonga vine, dusky coral pea, native sarsparilla and wombat berry. The forest floor beneath will be covered with ferns (including the massive king fern), orchids, mosses and fungi. You might be lucky enough to spot bush flowers like the golden glory pea, white everlasting daisy and various boronia species.

she-oaks leaves

She oak tree

 

wattle

Heat lands -

low-growing mallee eucalypts that dominate here - species like Blue Mountains mallee ash. Other heathland trees include the dwarf she-oak, heath banksia and tea-trees. It scatters a brilliant range of wildflower colours across the heathland: pinks and mauves; whites and greys; yellows, creams and oranges. A variety of plants contribute to this vibrant collage - including boronias, pea flowers, heaths (Epacris species), guinea flowers, conesticks, wattles and flannel flowers.

In the wet heathland, you'll find shrubs like banksias, Epacris obtusifolia (a slender upright plant with clusters of waxy white tube-like flowers), Darwinia fascicularis and Sphaerolobium vimineum with its small yellow and orange pea flowers.

Fresh water wetlands -

Hanging swamps hillsides and along cliff edges

great variety of sedges, rushes, grasses and shrubs. Plant species include the button grass, dagger hakea, pink swamp heath, coral fern and species of tea-tree. In summer, you'll sometimes see the beautiful red and gold flowers of Christmas bells just above the swamp.

Valley swamps Over time, rivers can dump a great depth of silt and debris into the narrow valleys they flow through. In such confined gorges, you might find swamps surrounded by groves of grey-green sword grass. Crimson bottlebrush trees, acacias and melaleucas are also common around these plant communities.