Final Major Project Brief - Scrap Yard

 Still a draft, but a more proffesional brief, some of the technical specifications are not finalised yet, such as texture budget and triangle count.
 


Main Brief:
To create a realistic mondern day authentic looking british scrap yard. The final peice will be placed into the Unreal Development Kit Engine, and be lit in a realistic way that best shows off the assets in the scene. Consider composition of the scene, keeping in mind where the final renders will be took from, while also creating a realistic working layout for a scrap yard.
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Size/Layout:
With the time allowance of 11 weeks, the layout will be small as to be managable but have densly populated areas. The area created will act as an 'entrance' to the scrap yard as to justify it's size, and so hints to the rest of the yard should be appartant (such as closed gates, scenery in distance). To give the Yard a sense of believeabilaty and placement, outside the yard models should be placed, such as trees, pylons, distant buildings if could legiteable be seen.

See file:
Layout.jpeg

Time Scale:

2 Weeks - Main Car
2 Weeks - Other Cars
2 Weeks - Structures (includes outside props e.g. trees, pylons)
2 Weeks - Car Part Assets
2 Weeks - General Assets
1 Weeks - Lighting

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Technical Specification:

Triangle Limit of 40,000 Triangles: All objects will be made to current gen specifics (e.g. Xbox 360). The level of detail should be constant throught out all models, and have higher polygon density where needed and justified. This will be true apart from the main car which will be a higher 10,000 triangle limit, as it will act as the 'hero' piece of the scene. All cars made will have the exterior and interior modeld.
Main Car 10,000 Triangle Limit: As the main car will be the 'Hero' Piece of the scene it will have to be done to a high detail, with interior and extrior created. On the interior the area around the steering wheel will need to have a higher polygon density (and hight texture space dedication) as in game this area would have a camera fixed around it.
Texture Budget of 50mb: All Textures should Give the modles a photo realistic look. Photo sourced textures will be altered and ajusted in photoshop, with any preplaced shadows rectified. All textures should have a normal map and specular map, with other maps placed where appropiate (Such as alpha, glow, cavity, etc.). To Have more scrap cars in the scene texture variations can be created for the same model (vise versa model variations using the same texture sheet can be used).
Scale: Each 3D Studio Max file will be set to 1 Grid Space = 1cm. This will allow for all models to be created accuratly to life, and when exported into the engine will keep all objects the same scale as to keep continuity.

See File:
Asset List

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Style:
All assets/scenery will be made to photo realistic graphics, using the photos collected from the Leicester scrap yard as the main source of reference. The scrap yard is a modern day british scrap yard, and so assets in the scene should reflect this, espcially with the scrap cars by modelling cars often found around today, such as; Vauxhal Corsa, Ford Fiesta, Citroen Saxo, Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall Omega etc. Hard surface modeling/texturing will be required so testing should be done before hand.

See Reference Folders:
Leicester Scrap Yard
Great Central Railway
Other Refernce
Internet Sourced Reference

See File:
Mood Board 1
Mood Board 2