Monday, June 14, 2010

END OF CLASS PARTY!

HI ALL,

FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE NEGOTIATIONS WITH YOUR STUDENT REPS (IT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY THING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR LAST TWO MEETINGS!) OUR END OF CLASS PARTY WILL BE HELD AT THE ROUNDHOUSE BAR STARTING FROM 5PM TOMORROW EVENING. THE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM IS PUTTING A LITTLE BIT OF CASH ON THE BAR. I'LL CHIP IN A BIT TOO.

SO, JUST TO GET ALL THE DETAILS ...

VENUE: ROUNDHOUSE BAR, UNSW (DOWN BY ANZAC PARADE)
DATE: WEDNESDAY JUNE 16TH
TIME: STARTING AT 5PM ...
DRINKS: ARCH1101 STUDENTS DRINK FROM OUR TAB UNTIL IN RUNS OUT ... SO GET IN EARLY!

SEE YOU THEN.

RUSSELL

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

LECTURE 11 POWER AND PERSPECTIVE ISSUU

HI GUYS, YOU'LL FIND THE PDF LINKED ROM THE EXPERIMENT 3 BRIEF PAGE.


CHEERS

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

LECTURE 09 EXP3 AND THE BRIDGE ISSUU

HI ALL, YOU'LL FIND THE PDF LINKED TO THE BRIEF PAGE FOR EXPERIMENT 3 AS USUAL.


CHEERS

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

LECTURE 08 TESTING AND EVALUATION ISSUU

HI ALL, HERE YOU GO. YOU'LL FIND THE VIDEOS FROM THE LECTURE ON THE RESOURCES DRIVE.



CHEERS

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

LECTURE 07 THE BLACK BOX ISSUU

HI ALL,

YOU'LL FIND THE VIDEO'S THAT WERE LINKED TO THIS PRESENTATION IN THE ARCH1101 RESOURCES FOLDER.



CHEERS

Thursday, April 15, 2010

CRYSIS WARS IN THE FBE LABS

HI ALL,

AFTER A BIT OF A FALSE START (AND WITH SOME HELP FROM SEBASTIAN AT BECU) WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CONFIGURE ALL OF THE COMPUTERS IN THE LABS TO WORK WITH CRYSIS WARS AND PLAYUP CORRECTLY. WE HAD TO TURN OFF THE UAC SETTINGS (JUST LIKE YOU HAVE TO DO AT HOME).

THIS IS HOW I USE THE SETUP IN THE LABS:

1. HIT THE WINDOWS START BUTTON AND TYPE "EDITOR" (WITHOUT THE QUOTATION MARKS) INTO THE SEARCH PROGRAMS AND FILES WINDOW.

2. THAT BRINGS UP THE SANDBOX2 SP EDITOR ... (SP STANDS FOR SINGLE PLAYER)

3. NAVIGATE TO THE CRYSIS WARS GAME FILE AND ADD AN OBJECTS FOLDER AND THEN ADD A z3208984_Objects FOLDER INSIDE THAT (THIS IS THE ONE WITH YOUR STUDENT NUMBER AND THE ONE YOU'LL HAND IN)

THE FULL PATH IS HERE: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Game

4. NAVIGATE TO THE LEVELS FOLDER AND ADD A FOLDER CALLED z3208984_Levels (AGAIN WITH YOUR STUDENT NUMBER, AND THE ONE YOU'LL HAND IN)

5. START UP GOOGLE SKETCHUP AND SET THE PLUGINS>PLAYUP>PREFERENCES TO POINT TO YOUR OBJECTS FOLDER ABOVE, AND SET THE RC PATH TO THE ONE IN CRYSIS WARS (NOT CRYSIS).

6. READY TO GO.

IT TAKES LESS THAN 5 MINUTES ONCE YOU'VE DONE IT A FEW TIMES.

REMEMBER TO COPY THE LEVELS AND OBJECTS FOLDER TO YOUR MEMORY STICK BEFORE YOU LOG OFF ... OTHERWISE IT WILL ALL DISAPPEAR!

CHEERS

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

LECTURE 06 EXPERIMENT 2 ISSUU



HI ALL, YOU'LL FIND THE PDF ON THE BRIEF PAGE FOR THE SECOND EXPERIMENT.

CHEERS