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How was week 8?4/19/2020 Week 8, was something else. I lost my file for the bird I made back in week 5 and Tyson lost most of his work from prior weeks. This happened because of the new updates I mentioned in week 7. So we're back to working with scratch, which I'm not too mad about. We had been working without communication for a while so we all kinda did our own thing which didn't fit with my ideas or theirs. So this was more like a blessing in disguise. I took much more action this week in telling the guys what I want and how we should get this done. We don't have much time left but if we can just push ourselves hard and focus on results, we can get this done like a week or two before this project ends. I'm gonna need to keep on my toes and make sure that what I'm doing, coincides with what Tysons doing. Malachi has been helping both of us out with how he wants this game to feel and look like which is something we all were struggling with at the beginning of this project. We thought we had an idea earlier but that wasn't the case. Last week was full of complaints pretty much but I feel like after typing all that out, that I can work on what I need to do and what I don't need to do. Just having the mindset of "if I don't get this done I'm screwed" can give people like me, tons of motivation to work hard on something. As far as schoolwork goes, we have all been struggling. Although Mr. Barker is very lenient on what assignments he gives us, my other teachers.... not so much. I understand how much stress this puts on everyone so I don't blame the teachers for giving us so much work but also, most of it just feels like busywork which is my problem. Anyways yeah this project should be going straight up after this post and I'm looking forward to posting all about it! that's all I've got so see y'all next week! - Andrew
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How is week 7 looking?4/19/2020 Week 7 was.... well it was a week. I know this is late and to tell you the truth, I forgot to write one on Sunday. So what exactly did I do on week 7? Well in retrospect, not much. I planned on modeling some more and start working on textures but that never came to be since the only time I had to work on this project was spend updating Unreal engine and updating my 3ds max. I did, however, think of some ideas on how I want this game to actually control and what kind of game it should be. When I presented this project I said that I was going to make some sort of game and I've been trying not to set the bar super high so I don't feel disappointed when this game comes out to be worse then I thought. This doesn't mean that the game isn't looking good or anything. If anything, I'm confident that I will be able to make a good playable game and that ill be proud of it. With all this online school stuff its been hard to find time to genuinely get on my computer and not instantly get a headache and not feel like doing anything after an assignment. Even with this, I refuse to not work on this project and even if the blog posts are harder to keep coming out ill be working on this project much much harder. My teammates have also been doing the same thing so it's just as hard for them to work on it as it is for me. We're trying really hard to find the time where we all don't feel like garbage so we can work on it and that's usually the hardest part. Finding time for all of us to call and work can be insanely hard considering how we always end up getting distracted. That's about the most I have for this week, maybe next week will go better - Andrew
Anything going on with week 6?4/5/2020 Week 6, what happened? Well to be completely honest, not much. I spent more time with 3ds max and was trying to learn the animation tools that are on there. I haven't had too much time to work on 3ds max as much as I should. This is mostly because of this remote learning stuff. Although I do like being able to be comfy and work, I don't like having to constantly worry about if something is due. It makes being on my PC less enjoyable but I still manage. I've been playing Persona 5 Royal on my PS4 lately and I feel like I can draw some really good inspiration from the models and such from the game. I've been looking into movies and other games to get more ideas for how models of humans should look like and have also been looking at more than just models. This kind of stuff I've been looking at is like storytelling and animation. I might try to see if I can animate my models and then maybe I can make cutscenes in my game for this project. That's the main reason why I've been working with the animation tools in 3ds max. Although I don't have anything to show this week, It was definitely a good working week on my part. I don't think much work has been done on Tysons end or Malachs end. This is mostly because I haven't heard from them in a while with all this social distancing stuff. I really hope we can get back to school soon so I can actually talk to them face to face and make some more plans. This has really been messing me up when it comes to scheduling so it's been difficult to find time to get on a call with them and work or anything like that. I'll try much harder next week to take some time and communicate with them and maybe get some more models done. That's about all I have for this week, So SEEYA - Andrew
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