Supervisor Meeting - 04

Student Name: Christy McLaughlin
Supervisor Name: Ryan Locke
Date: 09.02.15


Agenda

• Show working Dynamic Materials
• Discuss changing mesh issues - new potential idea
• Discuss getting the bedroom near complete for next week

Progress Report

• Supervisor was pleased too see I had manage to accomplish the dynamic materials in Unreal 4. He was also pleased to see how my environment had improved over the weak through a couple of little changes.
• Suggested I look more into 'replacing mesh' as oppose to 'dynamic mesh'. But understood my idea of using a plane and just changing the material although a really good normal map would be required to enhance the 3D effect.
• Never got this far due to in depth discussion about various other topics (See next section)

Agreed Action Report

• Look at last year's class' Honours Project blogs - can be a good help
• Perhaps look at the link in my last blog post to help set up a structure criteria
• Look at bookmark/reference managing - can be extremely helpful for dissertation
• Create a document that 'visualizes' my project dissertation questions etc

Personal Notes

This meeting went much better than expected and has definetely perked me up ready for the week ahead. I felt that I hadn't accomplished much in this last week, but my supervisor thought that I had done lots. He was pleased with the research carried out and the practical skills I had developed. What also was a huge relief for me was how he praised the development of my piece - which I hadn't intended to develop. I just added a few things and it immediately looked much better.

For Next Week

• Create bedroom and intro story alongside it to a satisfactory level
• Look once more into 'replacing actors' in game time in my environment
• Create a visual document of my project dissertation
• Carry out some more specific research - via journals e.g gamestudies.com

With all this in action I hope to begin looking at and perhaps developing the Asylum parts of the environment next week. I hope to have a lot of the environment complete by March and then I will begin to use the weekends in March to develop my dissertation and research.