Summary

There are 2 major problems I encounter in developing this environment and they are creating the skybox and modeling or importing the model to unity. The way I solve the creating the skybox problem are:

• First, I get an image and I divid it in 2
• Then I make the image in a U shape (more U shape in top, less U shape in center)
• After that I make the top of the image the same colour with gradient tool and also make it U shape
• Then I uses this 2 image as front and right and mirror this 2 image and make it as back and left
• For the top image, I uses the Top color of the front etc image and I put star in it (bigger at the side and smaller in the center) and I may have put a circle gradient in the the middle

The problem with the importing the model to unity is when I try to import it, the max importer crashes. The reason why it crushes is there is too many faces and werid stuff in the model. It is because when I model it, I put 4 mesh together to form the wall of the building and I combine these mesh to form one big mesh and I didn't delete the faces inside the mesh and didn't join the points together. To make it worst, I champfy the edge of the model which create more faces and creates a bigger headach to fix it. After I fix it, when I look at the model in unity, I see some holes in the edge of the model. This is because there is some points in the edge of the model that don't link to anything. After I fix that, it look ok.

The items I can improve on the environment if I got more time are:

• Add some water effects and models sitting on water
• Add a fishing building or something
• Make the other 2 temple look more different looking
• add some temple accessory

If this idea is made to an game one day, I am not sure if it work or not because I am not sure if it is possible in the coding part and I think people may see the game and may download it and play it for couple of days and quit playing it if there is no good or funny story behind it.   
 
 

Other Models

Other models (stone man tools and temple) that I have created for this environment:

Light

I want an warm yellowish light in my environment because this is a game where there is no scary enemy or monster to fight but a community to build up and preventing too much stone man dieing from a funny death on the way.

And I want the light in the camp fire to be blue and big enough so that the light can be reflected to the building.

Tree creator result

The following is the result of the trees I created:

Tree

After I saw the tutorial on how to creating trees in unity, I realist I can create trees like bamboo tree. In my environment, I want to create an alien tree, like it got the bark and (yellow) leaf of some type of plant or tree and put it as the structure of an bamboo tree.

Bamboo reference image:
http://ivankirtonflooring.com.au/blog/tag/bamboo-floor-sydney/
http://www.educopark.com/life-lessons/view/a-bamboo-tree
http://wallpaper-s.org/90__Japanese_Bamboo_Forest.htm

Something to add to the environment

I just remember that I can add a fog in the environment, so I am adding a light fog to the environment.

Preview of Special Effects and building model

Special Effect Preview

-A bluelise color fire in the camp

-A multi color sky dragon moving around in the sky

-A white blue snow storm

-A blue Lens Flare 

Building Model Preview

-camp fire

-houses

-chief house

-safety research building

-tools production building

-storage building

-temple

Note, I get the texture for the building from:

 http://www.travelpod.com/s/photos/clay+hostel or from google image search

Sound

The sound I want when the player screen move close to these objects are
-fire sound for the camp fire
-fire cracker sound for the sky dragon
-forest or insert sound for the tree, plant, stone, clay, camp area
-sea sound for the edge of the sea
-turning sound for the production building

Access list with Priority

Access list:

 

High

houses

chief house

safety research building

tools production building

storage building

temple

building texture

One type of clay, stone, trees, food object
One type of texture for clay, stone, trees, food object
Skybox


Mediam

A bluelise color fire in the camp
other type of plant, bush, tree stone
other type of texture for clay, stone, trees, food object
put cave painting on building texture
texture for hill and others

Low

Sound
A multi color sky dragon moving around in the sky
A white blue snow storm
A blue Lens Flare

Building texture

I am thinking about creating blue cave paintings on the wall of the building by using composite map function in 3d max.

Reference image:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0508/feature2/
http://www.antbear.de/bushman-rock-art.htm
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/rockart/rawallpaper.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/africa/art/san.htm


The image I created:

On the second thought, 3ds max composite map function DOES NOT work in Unity. So I don't think I can implement it using composite map.

My Access List for the environment

Access list:

• houses
• chief house
• safety research building
• tools production building
• storage building
• temple
• plant, bush, rocks
• clay, stone, trees, food mines
• camp fire

Special Effect

I am thinking about creating:
-A bluelise color fire in the camp
-A multi color sky dragon moving around in the sky
-A white blue snow storm
-A blue Lens Flare

Other Buildings

Ground Plant Tree Hill

The plant ground tree hill texture I concider using are:
//ground texture
dirt ground for camp
http://radibax-stock.deviantart.com/art/Ground-Texture-129177219
http://www.123rf.com/photo_6926802_dirt-ground.html 
clay ground for clay area
http://www.ehow.com/how_8581626_make-earth-clay-ground-pliable.html
forest ground for forest area
http://zommy.deviantart.com/art/Forest-Ground-Stock-2169113
http://www.copyright-free-images.com/full-image/nature-landscapes-copyright-free-images/earth-ground-copyright-free-images/forest-ground-wood-chips-pine-needles.jpg-copyright-free-picture.html
http://www.123rf.com/photo_8295388_forest-ground-road-hornbem-dry-leaves-covered-in-autumn.html
http://www.dreamstime.com/forest-ground-imagefree38379
stone ground for stone area
http://www.sharecg.com/v/8875/related/6/Texture/rock-ground-tileable
food plant ground for food plant area
http://www.wilben.co.uk/topsoil.php
http://www.lomondview.com/nursery/soilbark/index.htm
http://rickhill.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/invading-the-dirt/
other ground
http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/553707
hill texture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silbury_Hill_DB.jpg

//plant
I wanted all plant with yellowlish colour
other plant
e.g.
http://vterrain.org/Locations/za/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48113560@N03/4875026405/
food plant
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/C1GLUDn-2xPsADnnW8hqrw

//tree
I also wanted the trees to be yellowlish colour
note: I will uses photo shop to make it yellowish
http://karenswhimsy.com/tree-clipart.shtm

//rocks or clay hill
I will model some rock and clay rock with clay textures like
http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/garden/garden.htm