Getting Started

This is always the hard part but also the easy part for the fact we can just dream up anything and suggest it openly. A lot of the ideas discussed today will be written down as concepts on the premise that they may be useful later, even if completely obscure to the main goal.

We currently have a relatively balanced mix of team members; seven multimedia students and six programmers. At a steep contrast to previous projects we have a far different makeup. Networking students are no longer involved, instead we have multimedia students (which are far cooler ;)

Over the first few days I will be setting up tasks, documentation, guiding the programmers through what they need to do for their assignments, creating a power point for the multimedia team to use as a guide when implementing Torque elements to their modeling scenes.

Please note down the time you work on tasks, references, etc and blog them sometime in the week. Add a label with your name and the orientation of your post; be it 'Multimedia', 'Programming', 'General' etc.

Programmers:
Your first task is to find or think of an engine change to implement into the game. This can be found on garage games or any third party site. Our first focus is 'space flight combat', and thus any relevant engine changes to this are most useful. The second block of the project is the character-perspective; this involves things the character does out of their ship, such as; trade, combat, transitioning through areas, etc.

Multimedia Students:
Tim will handle your assignments and all I will give is the parameters of the content. As it stands, you are currently developing prototype designs for races, factions and their ships etc. There will be limits to the final models. I will note these down at a later date once I have the overall poly count for areas finalized. A few notes on the ships:

• Parts such as boosters, guns, shield generators, etc need to be interchangeable with other ships (separate meshes)
• Due to the above specification the total poly count should be around 6000 (but only with one of each part inside the scene at any time - it may exceed this if you have the other parts overlapping)
  

View the wiki (link on the right pane), under documentation are the modeling & animation standards (see quality requirements) as well as modeling specifics.

Everyone:
We still need a game name and artwork associated with it.

You must blog roughly every week. It is part of your Project assignment. A post does not collate to a sentence saying 'I did work for 2 hours.'