Assignment 3 Submission - An addendum

As required, I had my peers mark my submission. There responses can be found below.

Assignment 3 Submission - Part 7 - Crysis Environment

All relevant files (such as they are) have been posted to gamefront.
They can be found here.

Assignment 3 Submission - Part 6 - Images of Final Cryengine Environment

As outlined here, I was unable to insert my sketchup building into crysis. As a result, in order to satisfy the submission requirement of "5 real time image captures of the developed cryengine 3 environment" I have some delightful pictures of scenery.

Whilst on the subject of the marking criteria, I take this opportunity to point out the fact that I have explanations for my table and elevator on their respective Google 3D warehouse pages.

Correspondingly, it can be seen that I have fulfilled all of the assessment criteria but for that of "The image captures and architecture."

And here are the images of which I speak.

Assignment 3 Submission - Part 5 - Draft Cryengine Screenshots

Getting the terrain right

Texturing the arctic spring

The trees technically wouldn't be there, as the valley I've chosen is well beyond the treeline, and any ground not covered in ice is permafrost...

Similarly the little shrubs and the like would only exist in the lower provinces, as opposed to the wastes of Nunavut. Needless to say, I have taken some liberties with regard to latitude.

Assessment 3 Submission - Part 4 - Sketchup Model

My Sketchup model of the corporation can be found here. In the Google 3D Warehouse.

I went to a significant effort to keep things uniform, as when two corporations of such eminence are meeting, they ought not be concerned with fripperies such as who has the nicer interior designer. The focus should be on their business, and as a result, the architecture is quite utilitarian. This also serves as a reminder to the executives that they are but human.

Assessment 3 Submission - Part 3 - 36 Custom Textures

Linear

Rotational

Scalar

Harmonic - the oscillation between freqencies which create the perception of sound.

Thermodynamic - the progression towards the middle ground.

Ecolution - the inexorable progression towards genetic superiority.

Assignment 3 Submission - Part 2 - 18 Perspective Drawings

One point perspectives

Two point perspectives

Assignment 3 Submission - Part 1 - Mashup of Three News Articles

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the concept of Power as the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events. The in-text examples predominantly pertain to political or military strength. This ignores the growing might of corporations, the wealth and reach of which now extend well past those of conventional governments.

This is necessarily a bad thing. Like governments, these corporations are devot[ing] resources to cultivating a corporate image focused on global social responsibility. This leads to mass humanitarian aid efforts which are widely publicised in an attempt to garner market interest and sales.

In this manner, corporations work to increase their global influence wherever they can. If a company can be seen as a powerful platform… for targeting consumers it is more likely to attract investment and through that investment further grow its product and consumer base.

Vastness for the sake of vastness also has its attractions for executives: size is [becoming] increasingly important [in an industry where] scale helps firms spread costs and risk. With greater size comes greater economic might and thus greater industrial power, and firms are merging and splitting just as the political units of Europe did in the days of the industrial revolution.

In a world where multinational corporations have the economic might to generate the political clout which in the past cold only be afforded to economic powers (in the national sense), the balance of power shifts to the individual – without whom corporations cannot exist.

Coca Cola related information from The Economist, Cola Wars, continued, March 17th 2012, print edition.
Full text here. 

Facebook related information from The Economist, Valuing Facebook:Zuckerberg's Rocket, Ready foor Liftoff, May 12th 2012, Print edition.
Full text here. 

Take Two Interactive related information from The Economist, Video Games: Attempted Carjack, February 28th 2008, print edition. 
Full text here.  

I used The Economist as the source of all of my articles as it is the only source of valuable information with regard to corporations and their exploits. Not to mention the escapades of anyone with any variety of societal power.