Beneath Me

Storyboards

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:39:33 +0000

Here are the finished storyboards, which are very rough draft sketches, that layout all the major scenes in a motion piece.

The “Short Story” of this experimental piece is about a character that struggles between life and reality. This character deals with her trouble life by escaping to her dreams. As dreams cant last forever, soon both worlds crash and reality finds a way to bring her back into realization of her harsh cold life.

Finding a path. . .

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:17:49 +0000

Trying to narrow down a style. Trying to take in the capabilities of what we can do with direct x, i might be going for more a simple paper cut feel. Getting more ideas this weekend.

opening scene to play “show”

main character

Release 3

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:46:49 +0000

You can download release 3 by clicking this link. Any feedback is appreciated. I fixed a nasty memory leak that’s been around since R2, so performance should be improved in all cases. There was a problem with how the C# garbage collector handled some strings on the HUD, and it turns out that none of the strings were ever deallocated. It created a massive memory leak, since the strings were updated every nanosecond.

It’s fun to play around with the tv texture. I’ll change the code in the future so that it will play anything you dump in the video folder. Right now, the video paths are hard-coded into the application.

R3 Demo

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:16:47 +0000

I uploaded a (brief) demo of release 3. It shows how movies can be viewed in the 3d scene. It took a lot longer than I expected to implement this, but this was more or less the last significant technological hurdle. You can download it by clicking this link. The choppiness is due to the recording tool that was used, not the application itself.

We want to use this functionality to implement something like a television. Using a keyboard or a Wiimote, a user should be able to switch to other videos.

I will upload the deliverable tomorrow (3/29).

Release 2

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:01 +0000

Because the engine is written in C#, you will need a recent version of the .NET runtime environment installed. Obviously, you will need to be running a Windows PC as well. The release was tested with the following configuration:

Windows XP SP3
3.16GHz Intel E8500 processor
3GB 800MHz DDR2-SDRAM
nVidia 7900GS graphics

This release expands on R1, and includes the following new features:

Headtracking using a Wiimote and IR emitters.
The mouse can be used to aim.
Targetting crosshair.
Heads-up display.
Ability to spawn new objects by pressing C or R.
Ability to shoot down spawned cubes, using the left mouse button or spacebar to fire.
Improved collision detection.
Add your own music by dropping .mp3 files into the music directory.

The release can be downloaded by clicking this link. Any feedback is appreciated.

For R3, we will add support for viewing .swf files from within the application, and improve upon some of the existing functionality.

Release 1

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:46:40 +0000

Windows XP SP3
3.16GHz Intel E8500 processor
3GB 800MHz DDR2-SDRAM
nVidia 7900GS graphics

This release includes the following features:

Simple 3D Scene.
Movement in X direction. (A,S keys)
Movement in Z direction. (W,X keys)
Look up/down. (Up and down arrow keys)
Look left/right. (Left and Right arrow keys)
Can display 3D models.
Can apply textures to objects in the scene.
Proximity Sounds.
Sound Effects.
Background Music.
Collision detection.
Lighting.
Support for interactivity.
Skybox.

You can download the release by clicking this link. Any feedback is appreciated.

Schedule & Planning

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:37:08 +0000

We agreed upon a tentative schedule with regard to development of the 3D engine.

3/15 – 3D scene that you can move around in, with textures and meshes.
3/22 – 3/15 deliverable + IR head tracking.
3/29 – 3/22 deliverable + support for .swf files.
4/5 – 3/22 deliverable + interactivity.

After April 5th, we will take the completed engine, and use it to develop some scenes. So far, we are progressing as planned. You can monitor our progress yourself by downloading and running the deliverables. Because the engine is written using C#, you will need a recent version of the .NET runtime environment installed. Obviously, you will need to be running a Windows PC as well. As far as hardware requirements go, I recommend having a PCIe graphics device, as well as an Intel E8000 series processor, or better.

Roaming

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:35:46 +0000

This is more of an animated style and feel I have been loving to add to my moodboard. The animation and transitions are smooth and creativity. Its very simple but yet interesting and beautiful. The challenge for this project to make that same feeling. We want the user to be able to have talk to look and move around and not get bored at the sametime. Giving that ambience feeling but still have curious to care whats going to happen next.

Mood/Style Boards

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:02:33 +0000

BeneathMe PDF

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:35:54 +0000

To read our initial Design Document please click on the image below: