GRA202 – Week 1 – Module 1

Task List:Module One: Introduction to the 3DS Max Interface 1-0 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 1 1-1 Discussion: Getting Started 1-2 Practice: Interface, Navigation, and Basic Object Creation 1-3 Discussion: Final Project Proposal (Non-Graded) 1-4 Final Project Review

Practice object: Two practice objects this week. Some typo’s in the instruction and the lack of a tutorial (at all) resulted in this taking 30 hours to complete, when it should have taken an hour total for both objects. I really am not happy with this class. So the first major hurdle which was understanding […]

Task List:Module Three: Unwrapping in 3DS Max 3-0 A – 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 1 (pp. 13–16) 3-0 B – 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 2 (pp. 17–32) 3-0 C – 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 3 (pp. 92–99) 3-1 Practice: Mapping a Primitive 3-2 […]

Task List:Module Two: Modeling in 3DS Max 2-0 A – 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 2 (pp. 33–51) 2-0 B – 3DS Max Modeling for Games: Volume 1, Chapter 3 (pp. 65–91) 2-1 Practice: Polygonal Modeling Tools 2-2 Discussion: Milestone One Check-In: Low-Polygon Model Creation (Optional) 2-3 Final Project Milestone One: Low-Polygon […]

Task List:Module Two: Building on the Basics 2-0 A zyBooks Programming in Java, Module Two: Variables/Operators 2-0 B zyBooks Participation Activities 2-1 A zyBooks Activity: Operators Debugging (Lab 2.19.1) 2-1 B zyBooks Activity: Operators Debugging (Lab 2.20.1) 2-2 Assignment: Pseudocode and Build 2-3 Journal: Skill Building Note about the Journal project. The instructions link to […]

Task List:Module Three: Decision Structures 3-0 A zyBooks Programming in Java, Module Three: Decision Structures 3-0 B zyBooks Participation Activities 3-1 A zyBooks Activity: Conditionals Program (Lab 3.14.1) 3-1 B zyBooks Activity: Conditionals Program (Lab 3.15.1) 3-2 Journal: Skill Building

Apparently the screen shots are on the other computer, I’ll upload them later. This is the week we are working with UV Unwrap and the UV editor. Which is the first step of adding a skin or material to the surfaces of our object. Problems: Turns out in 3DS Max 2019 there’s a problem/bug with […]

Project 1: This week we are making our own skin or material to wrap our practice object. Project 2: This week we are UV unwrapping our choosen object.

The marble run! The turntable!

It was a rough week. Lots of software glitches, and problems with my model. Professor was awesome, and made it to the end of the week with a half way decent project, and after some reworking a decent grade.