Week 02 Mincraft-ish Level

Project Time Development:

Modeling Cube in Maya:                                15 minutes

Textures in Photoshop:                                   2 hours

Rendering Cubes in Maya:                             40 minutes

Research and lecture review:                          70 minutes

Developing materials in UE4:                         75 minutes

UE4 cube environment scene development:   4 hours

This is an interest assignment looking into continuing our weekly 3D and 2D software creation experience utilizing Maya 2016, Photoshop, and the Unreal Engine. I created another beveled cube in Maya, similar to the last assignment. But this time I laid out the cube’s UVs in Maya’s UV editor. I exported that UV data into Photoshop, where I started created small pixelated textures for setting the Minecraft-ish art style look of the cubes in UE4. I applied the textures to material editors that change aspects of the textures reflected in engine. I also moved, rotated, and scaled the cubes in these scenes.

Below is a collection of my work creating the cube, adding lights in Maya, creating multiple textures in Photoshop, displaying my Minecraft-ish world landscape, and showing an additional sculpture of a military tank made out of these cubes and textures.