3D Game Studio

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3D Game Studio

• Xiaoming Li
• Qing Yang
• Cong Liu
• KeHao Zhang

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Outline

• Introduction
• Background
• Method
• Tutorial Introduction
• Examples
• Results Analysis
• References

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Introduction

• The game and entertainment industry plays an
  enormous role within the development and
  extensive usage of new technologies
• A convergence between the fields of computer
  graphics and computer vision has been observed
• This convergence has been motivated by the idea
  to create photorealistic visualizations of real
  world scenes in a computer

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Introduction (cont.)

• 3D Gamestudio is a 3D computer game development
  system which allows users to create their own 3D
  applications and publish them royalty-free
• It comes complete with a model editor, a world
  editor, and a script editor.
• It also has an expansive texture collection,
  template scripts, and more, enough to create a
  simple 3D game

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Background (1)

• Some issues of 3D video
• Recent technological make it seam feasible to
  lift the medium video onto a novel, an immersive
  level.
• Data storage
• Transmission technology
• Presence of specialized graphics hardware
• The algorithmic core of 3D video is formed by
• Methods for the reconstruction of shape
• Appearance models of real-world scenes from video
  data
• Algorithms for rendering them in real time

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Background (2)

• Some issues of 3D video game design
• There is a recent increase in the number of game
  environments or engines that allow users to
  customize their gaming experiences by building
  and expanding game behavior
• Real-time visualization of 3D data is already
  well established and also commercially successful
  in the entertainment industry, namely in the
  market of 3D video games
• The number and complexity of visualization tools
  for analyzing and exploring data has increased
  dramatically

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Background (3)

• 3D Game Engines are low-cost, networking support,
  collision detection, support for high frame rates
  per second, and entry level hardware requirement
• These game engines include not only visualization
  functionality, but also offer physics, sound,
  network, artificial intelligence and graphical
  user interfaces to handle user in- and output.
• These engines can be extended to build more
  serious applications at very little costs

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Method

• The purpose of this project is to introduce you
  to 3D game studio by helping you create a small
  model.
• 3D game studio is an excellent tool to quickly
  prototype and develop 3D graphics applications
• No programming experience is required.
• In this experiment we want to evaluate the
  usefulness of this tool to prototype and develop
  3D graphics applications as curricula aids in
  their classrooms with 3D game studio.

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Tutorial Introduction

• 1. Download and install the 3D Game Studio by
  checking this linkhttp//download.conitec.net/gs
  demo.exe 2. Look at the tutorial for 3D game
  development.
• 3. Follow the tutorial, and run the simulation
  by yourself.4. Print the Questionnaire and give
  the choice for each item about the experiment
  process.

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An example Create Static Flower Model

• Open the Model Editor environment.
• Click button
• Click All Programs
• Click 3D Game Studio
• Create a new model
• Press File on the menu
• Then click New
• Or press New icon on the tool bar
• Create a simple 3D object
• Click Object on the menu
• Click Primitive
• click Cylinders
• Select Six-sided
• You will see the new six-sided cylinder in 3
  dimensions
• You drag the cylinder by mouse in different
  dimensions, and observe the motion

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Load an existed model

• Load an existed model
• Click Object on the menu
• Click Prefab
• Choose directory Plants
• Choose PETAL.WMP
• Click OK

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Modify the Model

• Resize Petal
• Click the petal to select it (notice it will turn
  to red)
• Click Mode on the menu
• Select Object Scale
• Move your mouse to resize the Petal
• Do the same to resize the Cylinder
• Move Petal to the right place
• Click the petal to select it
• Click Mode on the menu
• Select Object Move
• Use your mouse to drag the Petal to the right
  place
• Rotate Petal to the right place
• Click the petal to select it
• Click Mode on the menu
• Select Object Rotate
• Rotate the Petal in the right dimension

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Color the Model

• Click Texture on the menu
• Click Texture Manager
• Choose Add WAD
• Choose standard.wad then Open
• Click OK
• Click Texture on the left workspace
• Click standard.wad
• Choose Add WAD
• Drag the slider bar to find the greenplain
  texture
• Click the one you choose
• Select Cylinder
• Notice it turns to red
• Click the greenplain on the Texture Workspace
• Notice the Object in Texture Workspace turns to
  green

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Run the Model

• Press Build button
• Click OK
• Press Compile button
• Click OK
• You see the static 3D model
• Use your Keyboard up and down to adjust the views
  
• You can add more petals to this model, and to
  create a flower finally

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3D Flower
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Another Example Create A Motion Model

• Open the Model Editor environment.
• Click button
• Click All Programs
• Click 3D Game Studio
• Click Model Editor
• Choose GXL Object when run at the first time
• Choose both Gxl2DX8A.dll from 2-d and 3-d
• Open a .wmp file created by GameStudio
• Click File
• Click Open
• Select file type A5 Level File
• Select the file have been created by GameStudio
• Save model as a MDL file

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Create a new frame

• Click button
• Add a new frame
• Click Edit
• Click Add Frame
• Set property of new frame
• Select use current frame
• Click OK
• Move the object to a new position
• Select the part tended to be moved
• This part will become into red
• Click button
• Press left button and move the object
• Click button to save this new frame
• Play the motion

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Results Analysis
Fig. 1 The task was easy for me to learn and use
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Fig. 2 It was easy to get started
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Fig. 3 It was difficult to remember where some of
the tools and commands were located
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Fig. 4 This task would be easy to complete by
folks who dont know much about computers
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Fig. 5 This system would be fun for building
simulations
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Fig. 6 I have a good understanding of how to use
this system to complete the task
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Fig. 7 Turning my ideas into working simulations
was complicated
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Fig. 8 How many steps would this take to create a
new object
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Fig. 9 Rule ordering was confusing
Fig. 10 It was hard to recover from errors
Fig. 11 I was able to use this system to turn my
ideas into working simulations
Fig. 12 I found the creation of rules for object
behaviors confusing
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Fig. 13 The rules I created for objects
behaviors were simple and natural
Fig. 14 I am enthusiastic about creating new
simulations
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Thank you!

• Any Question?