PROGRAMMING
This is the Visual Scripting language of Unreal Engine
Blueprints
This is an animation method where keyframes are automatically smoothed/transitions are curved
Splining/Spline/Spline Curve
Team member reponsible for providing the GDD & feedback
Designer
This face has over four edges and can cause problems.
N-Gon
Who was the CAGD Chair before Jenn? Correct spelling only. First and last name.
Clarke Steinback
The type of data needed to store decimal point numbers.
Float
Animation technique where an object's motion is exaggerated to improve motion readability
Squash & Stretch
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What sort of degree do you receive upon graduating from CAGD?
The production cycle most commonly used in CAGD group projects
Agile/Sprints
This is a single point of light shooting in all directions in a 3D environment.
Point Light / Omni Light
This was the name of the CAGD program before 2014, after it had split off from Computer Science.
APCG - Applied Computer Graphics
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What year did we become our own program?
The commonly used web cloud service where developers store and share coded projects
GitHub
The process of manually assigning and adjusting a model's surface area to a bone in rigging
Weight Painting
Coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, this is the state of mind where time passes quickly due to a balance between skill & challenge
Flow State
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Who has been the longest full-time faculty member?
A image or data channel used to control the visibility or transparency of a texture, layer, or element. In masking terminology, these are used to hide or conceal the corresponding parts of the image, making them transparent.
A Black Mask
What does CGC stand for and why has it retained the name CGC?
Computer Graphics Club.
It retains its original name to honor the founder of the club and has stayed CGC ever since its inception.
In Object Oriented programming, this allows a class to have all of the variables and functions of its parent class
Inheritance
The method of interpolating between facial animations
Blendshapes
List Bartle's four player types.
Achievers
Explorers
Socializers
Killers
This is a freeform movement mode of faces, edges, and vertices without having to select them. It's an alternative to the move tool.
Tweak Mode
List the most CAGD faculty of present or past
John Pozzi
Frank Pereira
Mark Pullyblank
Jeff Underwood
Jenn Underwood
Tina Backlund
Connor Zelinsky
Tony Salcedo
Sky Larsen
Nathan Pool
Preston Farris
Cody Philbrook
Justin Amian
Dan Alioto
Dean Fogle
Amelie Hutt
Josh Amoranto
Kevin Hand
Justin Schwieger
A technique in which a line is drawn from one point to another in 3D space to check what it intersects with
Raycasting / Line Tracing
List the most principles of animation
1. Squash & Stretch
2. Anticipation
3. Staging
4. Straight Ahead/Pose to Pose
5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action
6. Ease In, Ease Out
7. Arcs
8. Secondary Action
9. Timing
10. Exaggeration
11. Solid Drawing
12. Appeal
These are the three core elements that all games boil down to.
Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics
The tool used to sharpen edges and corners on a polygon mesh when it is subdivided or smoothed.
Crease Tool
List the most production studios formed by CAGD faculty members
Mutant Games, Theia Interactive, Chico State Game Studios, Outer Games Entertainment