EXP2: Porosity Lens Brief

"In simple terms a Porosity Lens is a way to understand peoples navigation through an environment. A key aspect is that it takes into account how long people spend at certain places. This reflects on the public/private nature of those places. The use of the term 'lens' in Porosity Lens is metaphorical; in other words instead of using a glass lens to focus rays of light into an image (as is the case in a literal lens) students in BENV2423 are using flowgraph nodes to focus information to create a real-time interactive environment."


With the BENV2423 sketchup object, the intention of the use will be to create a building for vehicles to enter, unload the passengers and have them follow a path to the next room to enter the "Vtol" or spaceship. With this, the Porosity Lens will focus on this transaction and the environment in this transactional place. The AI nodes will possibly be given lots of AI:GoToSpeedStance nodes and they require much walking and driving. As my second mastery shows, the AI:GoToSpeedStance works on flying vehicles as well, not only that mid-air unloads which links with passengers opening parachutes is possible.


The usage of Vehicle:Enter and Vehicle:Unload will also play a major role in this porosity lens. Not only that possibly Time:Delay will be needed as each LTV truck that enters the transact station will carry more than 2 passengers. With Time:Delay the AI will bump less into each other and possibly create a more sync and efficiency transaction between vehicles.


The plan of using smart objects for Idle AI will also be considered. As the environment should be perceived to be a public location such as a bus stop or train station. With the research in to creating Idle AI, the usage of AI:Goto will be needed as the AI need to approach the Smart Object in order to initiate the chosen idle class.

S.W.O.T

Vehicle:Unload

Strength: easy and only way to have the AI leave the vehicle. Also the choice of which AI needs to leave the vehicle is very useful as in Mastery 1, the gunners are left in the vehicle to mount the gun.

Weaknesses: none that have been seen. 

Opportunities: this node will help make the interactive environment more life like as AI's will enter and exit vehicles.

Threat: none.

AIFollowPathSpeedStance

Strength: Directing the AI and vehicle on a path. 

Weaknesses: When AIPath is created, Road, is always auto-checked and with it checked it some times confuses the user that there is something wrong with the AIFollowPathSpeedStance. 

Opportunities: Creating a path for both AI and Vehicle.

Threat: None so far.

Vehicle:Enter

Strength: Very little variables and very straight forward. 

Weaknesses: For certain vehicles, i.e: Tank and Civ car, if the "fast" is not checked AI will be unable to enter the vehicle.

Opportunities: Used for AI to enter Vehicles.

Threat: None.

The 3 nodes chosen. The reason for these choices were that with the diverse amount of vehicles that crysis wars presented it would be a shame to not use them. What more was that the final plan was to use these paths for possibly a car park or a bus station. The usage of these 3 nodes would be in high demand if my final plan were to succeed.

Vehicle:Enter

AIFollowPathSpeedStance

Vehicle:Unload

Mastery 1

The Mastery that this clip demonstrates is the AI entering a vehicle, following a specific path and then exiting the vehicle.

EXP2: Research.

Used:

AIFollowPathSpeedStance

Specifically for AI's that drive around. AI Paths are used so that they have a path to follow. 

Vehicle:Enter

A node to command the AI to enter the Vehicle. For tanks and Civ Cars, through the trial and error system, they the Vehicle: Enter needs to be "fast".

Entity:EntityID

Vehicle:Unload

To unload all the passengers on board the Vehicle.

Time:Delay

Used for Parachute and possibly for other uses when timing is crucial.

Inventory:ParachuteControl

Opening Parachute command.

AI: Goto

Other Research:

Highlight: http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=12012&threadview=0&hilight=Flowgraph+and+big&hilightuser=0&page=4

Random Explosions

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=12012&threadview=0&hilight=Flowgraph+and+big&hilightuser=0&page=2

AI look at player:

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=12012&threadview=0&hilight=Flowgraph+and+big&hilightuser=0&page=7

AI drawing weapon:

http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=12012&threadview=0&hilight=Flowgraph+and+big&hilightuser=0&page=15

Wk5 The End

Crysis Files: http://www.filefront.com/17244801/CrysisFiles.rar
GoogleSketchup File: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=61f934acb6f9c2b32689d1c6e44487b5&result=4

Wk4 Modes

For my machinima documentary I will be planning to use the observational documentary style. The reason of why I plan to use the observational documentary style is because of how everything about life can be presented in a way of the trailer. Our memories represents the highlights of our lives. Although this may seem to make no correspondence with the reason why I chose observational documentary, it is because of how this style interacts with the audience. It creates a full blown story with in-sync music in the background. It becomes just plain great. With this showing the audience through my blog with this style of documentation would create a significant impact on the audience. I will try and blend the music with the 1minute video that I shall try and forge.