The 

Chessboard

 Assignment: 

Deadline March 6th 

Purpose: In this assignment students will practice using the spline polygon, lathe tool, booleans, primitives and the object information panel to create objects. The student will also learn how to add effective lighting to a scene including Shadow maps and Raytracing

Objectives: The student will create the following chess pieces and assemble them into a aesthetically pleasing scene.

Required Pieces: The Pawn, Rook,  and Bishop,  Optional Pieces: The King, Queen and Knight

 

Good Fair Poor

Technical Specifications

………. There should be shadow maps.

………. There should be some use of Ray Tracing

………. The chessboard should be a flat cube which does not have extra polygons

………. There should be at least 3 different pieces

………. All pieces should be made with an efficient use of primitives and the lathe tool

………. The object deformation tool should be used the create the bishops hat

……….  Boolean unions should be used to combine the objects only after the they are

               perfectly aligned using the object information panel.

……….  Boolean subtractions should be used to create the notches on the bishops hat and

   the cut outs in the rooks crown

………. The Object information panel should be used to create objects that are

               proportional and aligned correctly

Folder Specifications

............. Each Chess piece should be saved in the  Chess subfolder of the done folder as a separate object.

............ All the Chess pieces should be loaded into a single scene and saved in the Chess subfolder of the done folder

............ The Scene should be rendered from 3 different perspective views according to the following specifications

  1. The rendered images should be saved in the Chess subfolder of your done folder

  2. They should rendered as jpgs

  3. Each view should be rendered at 800 by 600 AND 133 by 100 ( a total of 6 JPGs)

  4. The large images will be called lastnamechess1, lastnamechess2, lastnamechess 3 etc

  5. The small images will be called lastnamechess1tn, lastnamechess2tn, lastnamechess3tn etc

 

 

Aesthetic Specifications

……… Competence should be shown with booleans and with the lath tool

……… Chess pieces should be detailed and accurate.

………. The pieces should be arranged on the board aesthetically

……… There should be at least 3 jpgs rendered and saved in the done folder

………  Lighting should enhance the scene.

………. There should be effective use of backgrounds and textures

………. Color should enhance the Scene not distract the eye

………. There should be a variety of perspective views rendered

Grades

F……. Project not attempted

D…… Project substantially incomplete

C……. Project missing major elements

C+….. Project missing no more than one major element but show good faith effort

B-…… All elements present

B……. Some aesthetic appeal

B+….. Exceeds technical requirements and visually appealing

A-……  Exceeds technical requirements Very visually appealing and has unique features

A…….. Outstanding