Foliage creation

 

Creating foliage & shades

Learning usage of shaders in games and in Max. Different types of textures like colour, opacity, bump, specular and normal  maps.

Assignment: Students develop a concept sketch of a potted plant and thereafter model and texture the plant using colour, specular and normal maps.

Assignment Details:

1. Overview: Learning usage of shaders in games and in Max. using different types of textures like colour, opacity, bump, specular and normal maps.

2. Technical specification:

The scene needs to contain a well weathered pot with a plant. (Please see samples in the reference folder)

·         Triangle count of the entire potted plan needs to be less than 1500 triangles.

·         Mesh model needs to use 3 textures – Diffuse, Specular and Normal

·         Image size of the textures not to exceed 1024 x 1024 pixels (24 and 32 bit textures)

·         Texture format: ‘.dds’ (corresponding ‘PSD’ with all the layers)