TCH072 Game Design 2 - Quiz 2 Review

In 1995, what did Pixar's Toy Story make history for?

• Having the highest paid voice-over actor

• Being the first completely silent animated film

• Being the first feature-length computer animated film

• Being the first animated documentary to capture the hardships of what it is really like to be a child's toy

What are software tools like 3D Studio Max, Maya, and Blender used for?

• Mixing music like a DJ

• Sharing and receiving test data

• Advertising and marketing games

• Commercial art production

Software, like Blender, with a free and open code base is referred to as what?

• Open source

• Tweening

• Scale operation

• Free code à la mode

In order to view your 3D objects in Blender from every angle, what will you need to know how to do?

• Pan

• Zoom

• Orbit

• Defy all known laws of physics and reality

What navigation action can be performed by either rolling the scroll wheel or pinching your fingertips on a trackpad in Blender?

• Orbiting

• Zoom in/out

• Panning

• Sending your mesh to the shadow realm

Stephen is trying to add a cube to his Blender scene. What is the keyboard shortcut that Stephen can press to bring up the 'add' menu?

• Shift + A

• Ctrl + A

• Shift + D

• Ctrl + Alt + Power Button

After you have left clicked on an object in Blender, it will be selected. What gizmo will have appeared over the object to let you know it has been selected?

• Delete gizmo

• Re-color gizmo

• Translation (move) gizmo

• Flux capaciter

Bruce just added a cylinder to his Blender scene and noticed that one feature of the Add Cylinder window is a place to set the number of vertices in his cylinder.  That means that he will be able to control what about his 3D shape?

• What color the cylinder is

• How many polygons are used to create it

• How quickly the barrel will move if animated

• How many vertices had to sacrifice themselves for your 3D object to be created

Alexis has created an extremely detailed environment for her game which means that for each frame, her game’s rendering engine has to render the level geometry, characters, lighting information, etc.  By including all this detail in her environment, what might happen to Alexis’ game when it runs?

• Make the game seem fake or unbelievable

• Make it choppy or even crash

• Distract players from the goal of the game

• She will be forced to endure thousands of angry Steam reviews

When creating a classic barrel mesh, it is important to get that perfect roundness. In order to do this, you must know how to change the form of the underlying what of your object?

• Topology

• Loop cut

• Node

• Personality