Vertical slice plan

on Thursday I had a discussion with James regarding my situation with the assets in bring in previous blogs, I said that I have a retopology problem and it started affecting the other work I needed to do for the last couple weeks of the project. what the problem was that I put too much polygons in a low poly mesh, which would have affected the textures and the implementation of those textures from substance into blender.

Because of I made this error all throughout my assets that would mean that I would have to start over again and clean the retopology, and because of the time frame I had left I doubted that I was going to finish all the finished assets in time.

But James pointed out that that the point of the project was not to make finished assets but it was make a vertical slice of assets, a vertical slice are just conceptual aspects of the game and it doesn’t necessarily have to be completed. He gave me a couple of options on what I could do and show, instead of wasting a week try fixing the retopology and put it into substance.

the first option was having a scene in unity with all my assets in one place but the problem is with that is that all the assets I’ve done are all in high Poly and when you put them into unity it will crash the engine, I did put my assets into unity previously because I wanted to compare the heights of the assets and it did not break, that being said I was in edit mode so perhaps it would of crashed if it was in playable mode. In summary its not very feasible for me to sacrifice the time that I would have done with like blogs more but instead focus all that on the retopology and the unity scene.

the other option was to have a rendered scene of all my assets in blender, I think this will be a better option because one I am more efficient in blender than I am in unity and also it will be highly unlikely for blender to crash because blender can take a lot of high polygons this conversation really did help calm my nerves as throughout the week, I spent extremely anxious about trying to get the work done and led to me feeling incredibly guilty as I felt like I’ve let everyone down I think I put a lot of unrealistic responsibility for myself and I have to remember that I’m still trying to learn as much as I can I should be more forgiving of myself.

My plan was to have three sections of my assets for the first section would be all my assets in one place, the second section would have the trees and plants together, and then the last section would have the houses.