Ideas for video game ( group )

My group decided to make a game called "Basic White Girl." (I don't know how well that name is going to go over with people but this game is intended to be a joke anyway.) The Mind Map we made is on one of their blogs since I am the one doing the character design. You can see the ideas for the main character, Basic White Girl, and the designs for two supporting characters, the Jock and the Nerd.

Video game initial ideas (individual)

I was told to just put a picture of my ideas here but I also think that this might of  been for people who did drawings while i tend to write out my ideas so in order for you to be able to tell what they say I am just going to type it out. 

• Scenic game that has a temple temple run type set up where everything is white and shades of grey (a forward runner/ path game ) where you have to run because you are being chased
• Space game where you command a ship and must destroy meteoroids and is similar to Galaga.
• possibly 8 bit as will but has more of a music base to it. 
• Parkour game that resembles mirrors edge it also a path/ forward running game
•  is puzzle like.
• mario spin off that is a side runner
• music making game that is more dubstep in feel and could run like guitarhero
•  instead uses a sytnth or launch pad for a controller
• horror- try to get through a maze type path that is dark and the sound of creepy breathing and footsteps is behind you and getting closer if you slow down or stop or go the wrong way.
• get though an area without being seen. (metal gear influence here) 
• there are cameras watchmen dogs and watchtowers
• music video game
• in time with the music (fighting?)
• Music of the game reacts to your actions and choices 
• audiosurfer feel but more elegant and has to actually do with the game 
• little robot picks up trasg and throws it away for money
• (we could go the morbid route here and say its the junk yard of robots and maybe he picks up robot parts after bigger fighting robots fight each other
• play as godzilla and destroy city
• oculus rift game
• Tetris type game where you only have limited pieces and it is like a puzzle where you have to use all the pieces to make a 2D image/shape or make a 3D object (harder)

Robot expansion

Some more work on the robot idea, I'm adding the possibility of it being more of a protector into this (even though it is making me think of the typical robots are all powerful and going to take over plot line. )

Ideas on how to use the 3D printer (hopefully not destroying anything in the process)

At the near beginning of this class I started to work with the little knowledge I had to create something for my sister who had just found out that my class had a 3D printer. She is a big fan of Doctor Who so I started to work on a Tardis, finishing it in just 3 days. It still has a lot of little things to fix so it can be printed but I have the core and idea of the box down.

Many of my friends have also requested things for me to make like things from shows they like such as Sailor Moon :

I would like to see If I could model some sort of action figure that is positionable or all the joints move. 

The Future of 3D printing

It was once thought that 3D printing was very distant in the future and that we would never be able to have access to something like it. However this technology has been out since the mid 80's but only available to factories for their products and prototyping. Now these machines are becoming more accessible to the public and are available to print almost anything a person can design in a 3D graphics program such as Maya. It is predicted that foods may even be printed in the future, things like chocolates, cakes, and peanut butter have already been printed.

The 3D printer has the ability to change the world. In labs scientists have been experimenting with the possibility that the 3D printer could help advance medicine. By using cells of patients rather than the plastic used in regular 3D printers the scientists have been able to print organs, proving to be a great discovery for those who need organ replacements  this even able to save many lives that might of been lost while waiting for the organ they needed to get to them.

Despite all the seemingly great uses for 3D printers there is still the issue of what can't be printed and what should or should not be allowed. Some copyrighted things like iPods an other electronics could be printed like anything else, causing the company to lose money. More dangerous things could be printed as well that can not be mandated by the government, falling into a "grey area". Some people are designing a gun that can be printed and the design shared to all people. This gives access to guns to people who might not otherwise not been allowed it.

3D printing has a bright future but it is up to us to decide how to use the advanced technology and improve (or possibly dismantle) our world.

Bevel Level (its almost like a boss battle title)

Beveling gives segments to the edges of your shape and can vary in the way it looks depending on if you edit the segments (top row) or the offset (bottom row).

Beveling also affects how a shape will render when smooth. Without any beveling the shape will render like the first rectangle in the top left corner and look like a cigar shape. Once you bevel the shape will retain its original form better and you can decide how the shape will look smooth rendered.

 

When beveling you can bevel different parts of the shape  in order to get different outcomes when the shape is smooth rendered. You can bevel all the sides, the ends, or the sides. (left to right in above picture) And when rendered these will give you the shapes below.

Deformers (Like the reject Transformers: polygons in disguise)

There are six different deformers in maya: Bend, Flare, Sine, Squash, Twist, and Wave. 

Bend 

Bend curves the shape or bend it exactly as the name suggests. 

Flare

Flare takes the shape and will stretch it and turn / twist it also.

Sine

Sine will make your shape become squiggles. The best expression I can think of to explain this tool.  you can have loose squiggles or more drastic squi

ggles by adjusting the wavelength to a lower one.

Squash

You  would think that the squash tool would squash it but it actually pulled on the shape and pinched it in certain places.

Twist

The shape was twisted by a certain degrees and could be expanded at the top using the envelope tool.

Wave

This tool takes what ever shape is in its affected area and will push or pull it according to the set "wave lengths" below or above the shape.

Multiple deformers practice.