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Project Outline

 

 

To model a male police officer (lead character) and a colleague female police officer (NPC),A patrol car (vehicle) a small cordoned off street with a shop that has been trashed during a robbery(enviroment) and two weapons for each ,gun and truncheon/baton(props).

 
Learning outcomes: to create realistic a environment and charcters to use in my portfolio to show my artistic and technical ability in 3d software, also to be able to show i can work to my own set deadlines and technical limitations.

The game will be on the xbox 360, its a 3rd person sandbox police/crime game aimed at people aged 16-24. I will be using 3dsmax, photoshop, crazy bump, nvidia photoshop plug-in and unreal development kit to produce the game.

 

 Technical Specifications & design details:

 

• maximum triangle limit 50,000
• all textures (normal, diffuse, specular) use the targa (.tga) format.
• all textures start with a prefix t_ and diffuse, normal and specular use _c, _n and _s postfixes respectively e.g t_concrete_c for a diffuse.
• all models need a normal map, specular map and if necessary alpha's
• all 3ds max files use a 1 grid space= 1cm unit scale.
•  each textures diffuse, normals and speculars will all be in one photoshop file with folders containing each.

 

Lead Character:

 

Description:

Male police officer, mid 20’s,

 

Triangle limit: 10,000

Texture limit: 2 2048 x 2048 texture sheets

 
reference/examples:

 

non-playable character (NPC)

Description:

Female police officer, early-mid 20’s,

Triangle limit: 10,000

Texture limit: 2 x 2048 x 2048 texture sheets

reference/examples:

Environment:

Description:
Small cordoned off street with a shop that has been trashed during a robbery

 

 Triangle limit: 15,000

Texture limit: 8  x 1024 x 1024 texture sheets which can be broken down into smaller sheets for tiling etc.

reference/examples:

Props:

 

 description:
two weapons which both characters will have

 
triangle limit: 4000

texture limit 1 x 512x512 for each weapon

refrence/example:

 

 other objects/scenery:

description:
extra objects to give the scene more reality e.g bins, rubbish, boxes, smashed glass from robbed shop etc.

triangle limit 4000
texture limit: 1 x 1024