Tuesday 15 January 2008

Dear Diary

Team Name: Wii Mate
Team Member Names: James Carson, Adam Bates

Email:
James: jamescarson86@gmail.com
Adam: a.batesuk@gmail.com

During the first week we were introduced to blender, and explored the interface learning things such as:

- the different views that can be enabled (Top-Down, Orthographic, etc)
- creating simple objects (we created a basic snowman using cones and spheres)


( The basic snowman)


- transforming the objects we created. We scaled spheres down, then translated them up to beside the main body to represent arms

- cameras and light were moved about within the scene, and this allowed us to render the scene from different angles.

- along the way we also learned some shortcuts, such as 's' to scale an object, 'g' to grab an object and 'r' to rotate that object.

Problems Encountered

It took us a while to familiarise ourselves with the interface, controls and the different shortcuts available.

Once we became familiar with it, we quickly learnt how to create composite objects (again, in the form of our snowman)

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