Homework 2: Team Meeting

We had our first full team meeting on Friday, 9/23/2016 to discuss the future development of our video game.  We decided to create a third person game as well as the types of characters for the player and enemies. We agreed on how to split up the different tasks, and we were able to determine the skill sets of each team member.

Homework 3: Creating simple FPS world in Unreal Engine

 I created a simple first person shooter world in Unreal Editor.  It consists of a camera with arms and a gun attached to it, several light sources, some cubes and some fire pits as well.  I also designed a mountainous surrounding landscape as well as a canyon with grass, dirt, and snow.

 The fire pit I created consist of two cones, a light with orange hue, and a fire animation.  I saved this as a blueprint so that I could easily place multiple and have more saved for later if I needed.

I created a new material for the fire pit, and I made it purple and metallic.
The executable file can be downloaded here:  FPS explore

Homework 1: Video games that I like

1. Star Wars: Battlefront: Official Website

To me this is an amazing video game. It is a first person shooter, where you can take control of various vehicles or just run around and shoot at the enemy.  The level of intensity I feel when playing this game adds a sense of realism that I've never gotten from a Star Wars game before. You can play in matches from 8 vs. 8 up to 20 vs. 20! It reminds me a little bit of playing Battlefield or Call of Duty.  The graphics are insane especially in 4k resolution. I highly recommend this game if you're interested in FPS's.

2. Super Smash Bros: Youtube gameplay video

This is one of the best video games of all time in my opinion.  There are multiple versions of this game, but my favorite is the one for Nintendo 64. It's a perfect game for multiplayer and playing with your friends

Homework 1: Description of diagram for superconducting cable model

This is a figure for a model I developed using COMSOL Multiphysics.  It is of a high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable system. Note that this is not to scale. The HTS cable is seen in the bottom center portion of the figure with copper terminals on either side. Because it is a superconductor, it needs to be really cold in order to operate.  This is why the cable is surrounded by cold helium gas flowing at 1.2 m/s. There is also a heat exchanger used to extract the heat generated by Joule heating. The entire system is surrounded by a vacuum jacket to prevent heat from leaking in from the ambient environment.

Homework 1: How to create a video animation using COMSOL Multiphysics (video)

This video explains how to create an animation of a the temperature profile of a high temperature superconducting DC cable. It uses the built in animation features and you will learn how to export it as a .gif file and embed it into a Powerpoint presentation.

                                   How to make an animation using COMSOL Multiphysics