Final Visualisation Project update

Sorry sorry, this slipped my mind. Didn’t help that our internet went a bit doo-lally for a few days (a fault at the exchange which, despite affecting the whole area, no-one reported for at least six hours until we phoned up).

Before I go any further – I have gone through the camera match tutorial, however my copy of Max was being slightly awkward and making adjusting proved nigh impossible. However, I do understand the basics as I can recreate things from photos quite easily, and will do so if I’m a bit stuck for something to do.

So, my visualisation project was recreating the palace of Xerxes from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga. Which went… Well, not disastrously wrong, just not as good as I wanted it to turn out.

As you can see in the last five, the shadows were being fickle again. And the interior dome… *cringes* I have no idea what went wrong, but Max would not let me fix it. Every time I tried: “Max has encountered an error”. And this was like 5 times in a row. I wasn’t about to push my luck really in case my laptop started smoking like a pop tart.

I think I probably forgot to alter the colour on the pillars, and lower the tile size of some textures, because it looks really nasty when viewed close up. And I mean pixellated nasty.

But overall I am rather proud of it – roll on the Xerxes flashback so I can compare!

Visualisation Overview

Here are the scans and screencaps from my Visualisation project.

Now this project seems to be the victim of a truly bizarre and very stealthy glitch. When going to compress my DV AVI file for uploading to YouTube, I was incredibly surprised to discover that there were only 25 frames in the file – for a reason I can’t figure, especially since it’s impossible to set a frame range for export in Windows Movie Maker, it only exported that much. I suddenly realised that there’s a pretty good chance the CD I handed in has this bizarre file on it, despite the fact that I’m positive that the DV AVI I burned was a full length video – I should know, I tested it several times (large files don’t play well from CD on Vista btw). Either way, the computer gave no indication there was a problem with exporting. Really sorry about this Roma if it is that file.

Can’t do anything about it now, so here it is: