29/01/13 Meeting with Ewan

Went over the massive list of assets and mechanics I just posted today, discussed a lot about asset creation and have formed a new list of things to be done by next week:

• Agree on a naming convention for assets: I.e. MESH_Character_Zombie_01 etc. (I'll discuss this with Jan in person soon)
• We are to White box EVERYTHING by next week to make a very basic place holder of every piece of content so that we can reach a first playable ASAP.
• Greg: make a placeholder of all of the terrain and export to CryEngine
• Tom: make placeholders of all the Characters and units for the game (and projectiles/skills?)
• Jayden: make place holder UI assets inc mini-map, HP, Mana and exp bars
• Jan: look at the list of mechanics, check the list is correct and have fun coding.
• We need to decide on the actual boundaries of the map as well as layout. but for the time being I (Greg) will make the white box version and get it into cry engine and we can change it from there.
• The elevation probably needs to be kept flat / to a minimum due to not having Y-axis aiming due to our view point.
• We need to get all of this into pivotal (again that's me probably) so keep checking.
• Tom is going to work on character concept art, and Ewan thinks we should probably focus on the Zombie because we don't have any model for that whereas we have a human prefab in cryengine already.

Things to note: (all Art related today)

• Textures should be to a power of 2 (128-256-512px etc but not necessarily square, so 256x1024 is okay)
• http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?roPos=1&catDisplay=1&id=1007#.UQf2-r_ZbF0 Joan of arc modelling tutorial for poly only modelling
• Dishonored modelling with zBrush: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?175208-Dishonored-The-Character-Art
• zBrush tutorials: http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/lesson/military-character-assets-with-joseph-drust/
• zBrush dishonored timelapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJpRyOPBUYE
• Joan of arc Maya tutorial: http://www.3dtotal.com/tutorial/ebook_tutorials/joan_of_arc/joan_of_arc_maya/part_01/joa_maya_part_01_01.php
• Advanced skeleton for animation rigging: http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/advancedskeleton