28/02/2020: Progress has been made, and it's been pretty awesome!The lecture we had today was fairly concise: we were tasked to create a compact texture and plug it into Unreal, really to just ensure we could tackle textures when we reached that stage in our builds.After doing that, my friend Emily and I were given a pretty exciting task: we were put in charge of keeping the master files of our group's Diagon Alley shops! This involved us both going around the rest of the group and collecting their .fbx files, which we then took away and built into the plot that our lecturer had made beforehand. The reason it took two of us was because each street had 12 plots, and our group numbered at least 17: this meant that some plots had been taken twice.Once we had done that, the Holders of the Masterfile took the files to the VR suite and booted them up in Unreal. I have to say, it looked really good: our lecturer ran to gather the rest of the group and show them. It was a pretty damn cool moment.
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I didn't get a very good picture of the street itself, but I can show what my masterfile looks like. Emily is in charge of the more complete file, but mine is probably going to be merged with the 'leftover' builds in other groups: I suppose I'll have to grit my teeth and struggle through making a beautiful original scene with shops from the Ravenclaw and Slytherin groups. I'll be sure to complain the whole time.
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After this was assembled, I took to advancing my modular build. I can say that I am pleased with its progress: the individual pieces are detailed and fit together well. I'm actually particularly pleased with the large downstairs window: I didn't plan out how I was going to model it, I went more on a limb, and it seems to have worked out well.
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Next step is ensuring that I am not making or using unnecessary loops or vertexes, as these will add to the data needed to render and put unneeded strain on the PC, and just building up on the walls. However! I am pleased with my progress so far, and I'm so looking forward to seeing the street with everyone's completed builds!It's going to be awesome.
An Unreal task!
Updated: Apr 24, 2020
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