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Synthesis – What’s it all about?

Synthesis have teamed up with Cheltenham Motor Sports to develop interactive promotional material to help advertise an exciting event coming to Cheltenham in 2013.

Cheltenham Motor Sports propose to organise a Sustainable Street Race around the centre of Cheltenham to raise awareness of Sustainability within the Motor Sports industry.

Synthesis are building a web based 3D racing game around Cheltenham, which will mirror the event that is actually planned by using the same cars, track and sponsors. Also in development is an augmented reality mobile application and a web based Carbon Calculator.

The game is being developed in Unity3D and will be available to play on our website, at ComX11 and the Cheltenham science fair.

Please feel free to explore the blog, find out what were about and get in touch with questions.

Carbon Calculator

Sustainable Street Race Game

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game is now live and can be played by clicking here

SSR is live.

The game can be played at:

http://synthesis-studios.co.uk/ssr.php

Enjoy and please feel free to email us any comments through our contact us page.

Promenade 1 textured

 

 

Just a quick one.

I have made a quick swf that will be used for ComX, it displays the scores from a seperate database (scores in their at the moment are rubbish so ignore them).

It should automatically go full screen and animate before changing the table. This will happen in real time as the high scores are updated. If anyone has any design suggestions let me know.

Right Click >> Save as here
Will only work when run locally at the moment (intentional).

Behind Municipal Offices Textured

Ladies college is also finished.

Ladies College Textured [part 1]

First half of ladies college textured. It’s all one texture, just for you Matt.

Blending of lightmaps and real time shadows

While creating the trailer we were having some problems with combining the real time shadows in Unity Pro and the lightmaps that contain ambient occlusion and globalĀ illuminationĀ data. I think the problem was the rendering path, the computer at Uni must of been set at DeferredĀ rendering which appears not to work combining the two methods. I switched to Forward rendering and that seems to have done the trick, with some tweaks to the shadows we can now have a seamless blend of precomputed shadows for buildings and real time shadows for trees and the car. Test video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0swt9KI1Aw4

These are concept designs for the Flash banner. The pictures show still images however there will be tweened movement for each of the items on the stage, the last image will be a static image once the movieclip is finished – each of the logos will provide a link to the associated website/page.

As a geeky side note, the chemical bond shown in the second image is actually silicon used in microchips. Synthesis in action….

All comments are welcome

Thanks, Guy

Footbridge WIP

Grandstand WIP

A WIP of the grandstand, thoughts and feelings?

Based on these

http://www.grandstandhire.co.uk/products.html

iPhone app – Slight variations

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