IMD 3901 Term Project - Blog Post 5

Introduction

Welcome to the fifth blog post for the IMD3901 Term Project! This post will cover my group's progress in the past week, as we start working toward the beta test/presentation.

Challenges

The biggest challenge this week was lack of time. With a test, a midterm, and multiple other assignments due during this past week and this coming week, it was very hard to find time to get work done on the project. As a result, I did not get as much work done on this than I have in the previous weeks, and the same was true for the rest of the group. However, progress was still made on the project, which is good. I would have liked to get some models for wall frames, but unfortunately I couldn't get that done. That will be a priority this coming week, along with finding more pre-made models we can use for the various scenes, and potentially editing the textures to better suit the environments we are recreating.

Successes

There were still some successes this week, such as the communcation between the group. We have been doing a very good job at updating each other on our progress, as well as areas we are struggling in. We're all working very well as a team. Another success was the texturing of my models I made last week, done by Malik. We can now add these completed models to the scene. As well, we have started collecting pre-made models to use. The collection isn't complete, but it is a good start, and we have a folder with all these models to edit and add to, on Sketchfab. Next week, with more time on my hands, we can start transferring them to the scene.

Time Spent on the Project

Unfortunately, because of all of the work we've had to do this past week, I only got around to maybe an hour or two of work toward the project this week. Things will get lighter after this, so I will make sure that number is higher for the next milestone.

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   Our weekly group discord call.

An example of one of the pre-made models we have found and collected. 
This is snowy ground, which can be used in two of our environments.

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