Week 9 animation progress

This week I concentrated on the actual animation for my assignment. The first thing I had to do was import the three models into the same area and then make then a child of a curve that surrounded them to make the movement of the model easier the having to select the whole model every time. this had some difficulties as I hadn't deleted the history of the models and this mean that when I tried to move them as a whole object the different components of the ship moved at different speeds and dismantled the ship. This was easily sorted by deleting the history but this then removed some textures, so I had to re texture some parts of the models to make them back into their original form.

Once I had achieved this I could look to make the environment that my animation is taking place . To do this I textured a sphere and reversed the normals to create the illusion that there was unlimited space surrounding my ships. Next I had to add the asteroid field that I had included in my design and duplicate special them to get the variation in them that I wanted. This picture below depicts the environment I have created and the next step is to start the animations now everything is in place.

Picture of the ships and asteroids with space texture

Close up of ship with asteroids