Today I began the end of my project. This lesson I went onto finishing my editable poly shape as I finished all the little parts of the design which I needed to still add in, I also went back and checked my design in case I missed something which I needed to add in and I also if there was a problem which I needed to fix which I did not realise before.
After that I went onto finishing the additional parts of my project as last time I was begging to use additional shapes and the line tool to speed up my projects weapon model. For the end of my weapon I had a barrel which needed to have some holes added too it some I made some additional cylinders which were thin and long enough to go through the cylinder which I was shaping into my weapon. I did this so that when I added a pro Boolean to my original cylinder I could pick the other cylinder’s to be cut out from the original leaving see through holes in the design of my weapon.
Once that was complete I attached all my shapes together to make it to being one shape.
Last of all I had to add some texture to the weapon to make it look more like my coloured version of my weapon. However I ran into a few errors when doing the project such as the computer crashing twice which led me to loosing time on my project, I also got a bit confused with my understanding of using textures however in the end I managed to figure it out and I Knew that I had to add an editable mesh to my shape so that I could add different textures to each polygon using a multi sub object in the material editor so that I could add different textures to my design by using numbers to define which texture I wanted to use on which piece. Unfortunately I ran into a problem which I could not solve with the little time I had left, this was because I could only place textures to were each polygon was placed and I placed them so that it would fit the shape of the image but not for the design on it such as the flames which meant I could not put the textures to were I exactly wanted to and therefore the colour on the image did not come out as to how I wanted it to unfortunately.
Games Design Course - Harrison Preston 