Computer Gaming Technology

In Maya I used a number of common and simple tools when there was an advanced library of tools open for use by me. However i didn't really touch most of those tools and in retrospect I probably should of tried most of them to find out if they were better than the simple more 'core' tools that i was using. However it is hard to know which tools to use when you didn't know those tools existed in the first place. Some of the tools I used in Maya: View and object - Focus Face Vertex Extrude Connect Three-View Editing Outliner Window Duplicate Target Weld Bake Simulation Game Exporter Hypershade Primitive Objects Some of the tools I didn't use: HumanIK Skinning Rigging Netwon Other particle FX Volume Manipulator Edge Pivot Point Multi Cut Boolean Mirror Edge Loop Transparent View Why did I use the tools i did? Focusing on objects allowed me to move the camera around everywhere but ultimately allowed me to keep track of

It's time to start the process of making my game,  first off i need to set up my map. So as can be seen i set up my basic walls, these walls are not shoot-able and will make the basic maze. The player is spawned bottom right and he has to make his way over to where the moving tool is being used. How i set this is up is mostly by used the scale tool on the outside walls and then copy and pasting them as squares, I then deleted the walls that i will replace with destructible walls. The next thing i did was set up my destructible walls. I did this by create a trigger box and creating a blueprint attached to that, this allowed me to go in to the script and say OnCollision, delete itself. I then create and object inside of the trigger box viewport, this is the wall that is destructible, i re-sized it using the scale tool and copy and pasted it around the map. The first sort of functionality I made was the flashlight, I plan to add a roof over the top of this maze and make

So for my game and my project in general i need to create a gun model in Maya. The model i will be using is the Gravity Gun from Half Life 2. The reason i want to use this gun is because I've spent many hours using it in Garry's Mod and so I'm quite familiar with it. Not only that but it's a very iconic weapon and has many pictures and schematics out there on the internet. This is the sort of thing I want to make. It will also mean that I use a variety of tools during its creation which i can expand upon in this blog in later posts. I believe it'd be more appropriate for the projectile to just be the standard bullet rather than a laser. This is because there were not any requirements set for the type of projectile and also the design of my game would be easier using singular projectiles rather than 1 long collision for a laser beam. On to the model creation itself. This is my first time using Maya but I've learnt a bit before actually using it. The easi