CAGD 373 - Destiny 2 Tower

CAGD 373 - Destiny 2 Tower - Sprint 4

Destiny 2 Tower - Sprint 4

My name is Kyle Ramser, and I am currently working with my group to recreate the Tower, a social space from Destiny 2. During our fourth sprint, I mainly worked on finishing up some textures and continuing to model the pistol for our player. The pistol is proving to be even harder than I had thought originally, but I should be able to have it finished and textured by next week. I completed slightly less cards this week than usual, but I am confident I can pick up that slack in this next and final sprint to make sure that the project is done on time.

The main pieces that I textured this week were the side building, the platforms, the stairs, and the laptop. On top of these, I was also able to texture a lot of the larger floor pieces like the ramp and back floor area so that they will look good together during the walkthrough. I am mostly happy with how all of these came out, and am especially happy with the alphas for the platforms and stairs, as the see-through grate area ended up turning out very good. I think this made the textures more believable, as well as more similar to how it is in the actual game.

So overall this sprint, I was happy with the textures that I made, but I will need to fire through a lot of cards next sprint to make up for the slight lack in cards this sprint. As a group, we don’t have much left to do, but we need to make sure that we push through this last sprint and do a good amount of work.

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