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Originally Posted by magnasmific
I used the framework from last year's field that i made for the foundation of this one. I only fixed the holes in the walls for ball loading area. I did not (yet) modify the field to accommodate this year's physical attributes that extensively.
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Its not as nice as your field Dave! Which, i noticed Mr. Flowers saying that you were using Mac G4(5)'s. Which software did you use to create the animation? Maya, Lightwave, or something else?
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Make sure that the set of drawings you are using are for the competition field, and not the practice field. The loading stations on the practics field are made of slabs of plywood, and similar in appearance to the ones on your field. You probably want to use the other set of drawings.
I use Lightwave v8 to generate the kick-off animation, with three dual-processor 2GHz Mac G5s for rendering the frames (all 9500 of them, if you include the scenes I had to re-render as the game design changed). I use Lightwave for three reasons:
- it is a virtual firewall between me and the animation sub-group on my team. This ensures that they will not be subjected to anyone thinking they have an unfair advantage in the animation competition by having access to the field models that I build for the kick-off animation. My Lightwave models are not compatible with the Autodesk software, so they can't take advantage of my work or any prior knowledge that I may have. This keeps us ethically "clean" and makes it easy to verify they aren't breaking any rules.
- I don't do PCs
- it's what I know
-dave