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Week 14

For my Hypercinema and ICM: Media finals, I worked on a Cornell Box.

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I had a consistent issue with HDR skyboxes crashing Godot on my personal computer. hdr glitch

I used an AI tool to generate a 3D model of Nelson Mandela’s house, which was nice. When I first imported it, the orientation seemed random. red house 3D model rotated in air

I needed to rotate the mesh to have it lying flat on the ground/y-axis (y=0). red house 3D model flat on ground

The generated 3D model was malformed, which I “fixed” by hiding the model’s asymmetry under the y-axis. asymmetrical red house 3D model

I thought this HDR looked really nice but it kept crashing my computer. HDR crash reimport screen

I started to realize that I would not be able to use HDRs for skyboxes in Godot like I had intended. HDR crash reimport screen again

I tried to work with a completely black skybox instead. However, when I imported the resulting glTF into Google Model Viewer, the black skybox had disappeared.

Thankfully, Google Model Viewer has its own skybox editing tool.