Monday, 30 July 2012

Week 2 Tasks


Australia - Rocky vertical cliff face with light vegetation on top,
rough sea hitting cliff face.

Australia - Typical Australian vegetation with small and low lying vegetation with a
small lagoon like catchment of water surrounded by a small beach and cliff face.

Argentina - Water in foreground with snowy mountain alps in the background.
A dense bush land and mountains dividing the two. 

Argentina - a large waterfall with a rocky bottom

Italy - High mountain lands with a rocky surface and low lying clouds.




Monday, 23 July 2012

Week 1 Tasks

Customising The Editor:
1. Attach panels to the side of the editor, opposed to having the window floating, this will make the editor neat and tidy. 
2. Tools > Customise Tools > keyboard > Create custom hot keys.
3. The console window could also be detached and attached to the roll up bar or another window that you prefer.
4. Tools > Preferences > Console background allows you to change the colour of the background. 
5. Tools > Preferences > highlight object on mouseover.


Viewports:
1. Regular 'WASD" keys to move/ float around
2. Middle mouse button/click scroll to pan the view
3. Move the mouse around the change the camera angle

User Interface Panels - Overview:
1. Ctrl + G = Spawn in game.
2. Ctrl + C = whilst an object is selected allows you to copy the selected object.
3. Ctrl + V = Paste the last copied object to map.
4. M = Material editor.
5. F = Freeze an object in the selected window.