Environment Research

Environment Research - Warehouse

For the first sprint, I worked on setting up the Github project with milestones, labels, and populating the board with upcoming tasks to complete. I started a basic structure for the proposal documents (due February 14th) consisting of the two parts: Design Document and User Interaction Specification.

I also did research on how real warehouse environments looked like, to start the design process for one of our two game locations. This would be where the user with the Finder role searches for the required parts (i.e. pieces of wood, screws, etc.).

Below are some reference images I looked at. It it still too be determined whether the warehouse will be well organized or have some degree of messiness, which would make it more challenging for the user to find items.

Something else to consider would be warehouse organization ideas, which is apparently a popular topic that kept popping up while I was doing research. I kept finding articles like the ones below:

Below is a preliminary sketch of what the floor plan could look like and a sample shelf organization. Maybe we could incorporate the use of common equipment found in a warehouse such as trolleys and lifts for lifting heavier objects?

At this early stage, we have yet to develop a specific art style to work towards. However, it should have some reference to realism especially considering our topic of furniture building. This would be something to discuss at our upcoming group meeting. We will also need to discuss more specifics about the project's technical requirements, features, and develop a milestones timetable.

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[WEEK 1] Introducing our project...

Our goal is to make a cool VR game for Design Studio 3. The main idea involves a collaborative asymmetrical experience to build furniture virtually. There will be two roles in this game: a finder (to look for furniture pieces in the warehouse), and a builder (putting the parts together). We started this project on January 22, 2020 and are currently on our first 1 week sprint of development.

Sprint 10 - Adding more boxes and lots of scripting

As the final submission draws near, lots of work has yet to be done. Due to time constraints and the lack of resources in light of recent events, we made the decision to cut down our scope by removing VR functionality entirely and focus on desktop-to-desktop connection fully. With new goals in mind, I spent the beginning of the week by adding all the boxes for spawning furniture components. To do so, I started by replacing the blue boxes we used previously with stylised boxes that match the environment better. To tell the player what each box contains, an image of the rendered component is placed on each side. The challenge here was that I wanted to avoid creating a GLTF for every single box because it would have slowed down the page drastically. The solution was to instead use a single, universal GLTF for every box and placed images on each side of the box as explained previously (~6hrs). New Warehouse Area - Added new boxes Close up of updated box - Bright colours and side

Storyboard and Physical Layout

I finished up on some graphical elements for the user interaction specification component of the proposal due this coming Friday. This includes the storyboard panels and the physical layout diagram. As I was researching Oculus Rift physical setups, I had to determine how many sensors we would need for our game. I believe that 2 sensors will be sufficient, since we do not need a true 360 degrees experience as the Builder player will primarily be focused on the 180 degree space in front of them (i.e. the fireplace, the TV, and building the furniture). Our game is not an action packed game with any running or shooting. Of course, the player will still be able to fully look around but they shouldn't have a great need to move in the other 180 degrees of space. This would also take into consideration accessibility to our game, because it costs extra to buy a third sensor (the Rift only comes with 2) as well as requiring adapters and wire extensions. I spent about 4 hours researching

Build-a-Furniture

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