Link to Website and the lighting shots

So finally i have published the website and it is now up and running, the website is still in progress and i will continue working on this as i make progress with my projects. Here is the link to the website for anyone who wishes to view it. http://peterknowles.weebly.com/. I have now re worked the lighting in the level to show the two other states within the section, both alarm lighting and the power cut sections.

Alarm Lighting

Power cut sections

Today's progress

So after working away throughout the day i have been working again on my website and within the axis game factory and i have some updates. First off is the work i have been doing inside of the axis game factory as of this morning i had a base map that i had created and just thrown some assets onto while i getting to know the software. But over the course of the day i have scrapped what i originally had and set about a start to actually creating a piece of work for my portfolio. While i was creating the map i have also created some more assets within the editor using the pieces that the software provides, creating these to build up the environment of my level. The assets are as follows.

Manor

Town Hall - Front

Town Hall - Side on view

The level is set on a small little island that is home to a little village that is shut of from the rest of the world. These images are the ones of the map in its original state when i began it earlier today.

The next images are the screenshots i have taken at the end of the work i have done towards it today. These aren't images of the final level as there is still alot i have to do towards it, this is just a stopping point for the day.

This is the overview of the Island as it currently stands

This is the player start and the lead up to the bridge into the village

The bridge across the river to the village

The beginning of the path to the village

Further down the road to the village

A view of the road from a hill

Entrance to the village

The beginning of the outer edge of the village

The village's town hall

The assets in the village for the houses are just make shift ones that will be replaced when new ones are created to add a bit of variety to the town, there will also be things like roads and a town square of sorts in front of the town hall. Now onto the issue of the website, the website will be up and running after i finally figure out what i am going to do as a homepage and the last of the screenshots form my progress from today have been uploaded, it will be more than likely up and running by this time tomorrow and again a link will be posted to it. There will also be some screenshots of the prison cells with the alarm lighting on, i was hoping to have them ready to post with these but it is currently taking its time to bake the lighting for the scene so i will have to post these tomorrow with the link for the website.

Website,Lighting and New Software

So recently i have been working away on my website after letting it get away from me for so long, this has been where most of my time has been set getting that in order so that i will soon be able to publish it and add a link here. The website will however be up and running in the next few days. Anyways from that i have been testing lighting inside of my level in UDK, testing what the prison cells will look like once the lighting is added. Even though these assets are going to be remade i did this for the moment as a sort of place holder, so that without spending time going back and recreating the assets now and loose track of getting the rest of the level created, i could have the cells in there for demo purposes. Below are the images of the cell block with lighting. Today i will be making the lighting for the alarms and the power cut sections and i will upload my progress with that at a later time.

Now onto another thing that has been taking up alot of my time, recently i purchased the axis game factory and have been going about learning to use this. Im using this to create quick maps and levels for portfolio purposes, it is also giving me practice with terrain creation which will help when it comes to later points in the project when i need to create the levels on land.  I have only had the software over the last few days and haven't really gotten that far into building a level as i am still finding my way around the tools and the program. The images below are what i have created so far. I will also be working on this some more throughout the day and will upload my progress at a later point.

House 1

Back of the house

Variant 1

Variant 2

Cell Block Door Section

With the new wall completed I moved onto creating the new door section for the entrance to the holding cells, so far i have started to create the door section and have created the doors. I have also began to texture the pillar as i take breaks from modelling and have unwrapped the uv map for the wall to begin texturing once i finish texturing the pillar.

With the door i have placed lights into it, which on the image below appear to be blue, these will as glow green and red, but instead of online and offline like before with the assets in the cell blocks the lights will glow green for when the door is open and can be passed through and red for when the door is locked. I will also create a standard unlit texture that will be able to be applied to it so that in the sections where the power is off none of the lights will be on.

With the door section i kept it in the same style as the wall section to give it that seem-less fit. The door section will have a panel on the right side of it so the player can use it to get into the cells. This will be created separately because this will have and animated texture on it.

The image below is how the asset will look when combined with the other wall asset to build up the corridor, once the textures are complete i will post the updated version of the assets and scene.

Getting back to things.

I have recently picked back up on the project after working away on a few other things on the side and on coming back to the project i saw some things that needed changing. The first was the walls as i could not find out what was causing there to be a problem with the mesh when it came to lighting i decided to make a new model and model it to a higher poly count and add some extra detail to it just to give it that extra little visual boost. While i have been working on other things i have picked up a few tricks along the way so the textures will be changing between the two models which is what i am currently working away on.

Another thing i have cam back and changed was the pillar, after making it i didnt really think that it fit in with the rest of the assets so again i decided to go back in and remake this, again to a higher poly count to give it that little bit extra. With it i took away the bridged part across the top linking the two pillars and just created it to fit snugly with the roof asset that i went on to create. 

The last thing that i have worked on as just mentioned was the roof asset, this like the floor peices will be created a few times over with variations for where needed, mainly following the shape of the floor beneath it, i have created the main section first and have worked away texturing this, trying my hand at bump mapping and am beginning to look into other sources of mapping. The texture that is now on the asset isnt the final version of the texture as i will at some point be going back into this and editing it so that the there is damage added to it, this will happen for all of the assets adding both damage and wear and tear. 

I have also re-edited all of the floor pieces to now include the lights on the sides as they were on the original model, the main section of the flooring. I will be now replacing these inside of the editor and begin starting to build the corridors of the level as i continue working on the textures and rest of the assets for the level.