Week 2 - Independent study

3 Images of second island

New terrain texture

My custom terrain texture applied to my island



Week 2 - Custom Island development 5 images

Landcape

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Landscape majority covered in vegetation, the terrain is flat in the front, ups and downs mountains at the back of the picture. Soft lighting cause by sunset, the whole sky shows as yellow color.





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The whole Landscape is covered by vegetation.
This landscape is a terraces.
Normal lighting in this picture.

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There is not much vegetation in this landscape. Many mountains and reflections in the water.
Ups and downs mountains.
Medium lighting with the reflection of the water.







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Few vegetation, many mountains and clouds.
Towering mountains.
basic lighting whith shadows of mountains.



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Landscape is majority covered in vegetation.
the terrain is flat land and ups and downs mountains.
bright lighting.

5 shortcuts and buttons

1. Ctrl + T to select objects.

2. Click M to open up the material editor

3.Ctrl+G to change to game mode

4. Click H to hide

 

5. Click F to freeze

Three different ways of moving around your level

1.WSAD. W----FORWARDS    S----BACKWARDS

       A----LEFT    D----RIGHT

2. Click right mouse button to look around
    Click  middle mouse button to pan around

3. Shift button to move faster.

Five ways I might customize my Sandbox editor setup

1. Make all tool panels in one windows.
2. I might only leave rollup bar on the left hand side to make sure I can have the viewport as big as possible.

3. I might keep all most useful tool bars on the top of the viewport.

4. I might raise the undo levels, because I am a new user, it's hard for me to ensure what I want in a few times try.

5. Set up my own keyboard hot keys. It's easy for me to use.

Ten tips and tricks related to the SANDBOX USER INTERFACE

1.  press number button 1 or 10 to quick control the moving speed.

2. WSAD are the control button of the movement.

W----FORWARDS

  S----BACKWARDS

 A----LEFT

 D----RIGHT

 

3.Ctrl+G change the mode to in game.

 

4. press 'go to position', can tell you the exact position code and also can use it to go back to where you were before by type in the position code.

 

5. “M” For the material editor

 

6.  “CLT+E” quickly rebuild a level.

 

7. In the modify bar, you can chose link or unlink entities. there are other options allow you to modify your scenes.

 

8.  The rollup bar includes the objects creation, terrain modifying and solid modelling tools.

 

9. In the rollup bar, you can chose hide and unhide all differents objects.

 

10. X Y Z XY bottons are use to control the movement of the objects. such as turn on the X button, you can only move the objets on the X-axis.

 

 

Five Things I Learned About The Sandbox Folder Structure

Here are five things I have learned about the Sandbox folder structure.

 

1. In the bin64 or bin32 is where the executable, game files and editor are.  To chose the folder depends on the windows system bit. If the system is 64 bit so open the bin64 folder.

2. In the code folder we can find a few examples and scripts, we also can make a few code changes.

3. In the game folder there are many pak files, inside these files are where the whole game is such as sounds, animations, cjf files, materials ext.

4.Inside the tools folder, there are many useful files. the CryMaxTools has been recommended to install. In the CryMaxTools folder, open the copyToMax.bat and type C to install.

5.Go to stk.crydev.net for more useful information, there are lots of articles and guides listed for helping.