Spring 9 - Finishing Furniture and VR startup

This week, I completed stripping the shelf apart to create separate components, as I did with the other two furniture pieces. I also rendered each component from each piece of furniture so that they can be used in the instruction manual. Finally, I added onto the blueprint of shape match from last week to incorporate the shelf, as well as the repetition of each step. This can be seen in the image below. Finally, each component has the coloured symbols placed in the right places and have been exported as GLTF to import into AFrame (~7hrs)

This week, I also went to procure a VR headset. With the state of things in the world, I had to be quick to contact Carleton's BIT department but was able to successfully obtain an Oculus Rift to do testing within VR. It took time to set everything up but I got it running in the end, however, I had many difficulties operating the WebVR space. Using the rift is extremely draining and I had several headaches afterwards. As of now, I'm unable to open the AFrame project in full VR, and not in a small popup window. This also spawned concerns with how building the project for Oculus Rift may affect how it works with other Oculus systems or the Vive. (~4hrs)

To end off the week, I re-rendered the completed furniture pieces without backgrounds or shadows for the manual. I also went into the code and resized the entire living room and furniture components to be smaller so that everything is consistent between Warehouse and Living Room in terms of their sizes; this was successful (~3hrs). Last I tested with VR, there were some concerns with size because opening the scene in VR made everything around the user look huge. Seems like the VR set creates a new camera and gyroscope system according to its own parameters and ignores the one we created and intended to use. This will be tackled in the next week.

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[FINAL] - Where to find our game

Hello future builders, we're 3 programmer-artists that make up the Seismic Octopus team: Mitchell Koch - lead programmer, game tester, researcher Priscilla Lo - project manager, sound design, lead 2D artist, programmer, documentation Maxime Vincent - lead 3D artist, lighting designer, game tester We finished this course in May 2020 with a final release of Build-a-Furniture available on GitHub: https://github.com/Areizza/Build-a-Furniture Although this semester was full of hardships and unprecedented times near the end, we got through it together and are proud to present our simple web-VR game. Check it out and let us know what you think! :)

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

Sprint 6 - Redesigning and Finalizing the Warehouse

Based on feedback from the alpha build and some considerations from the rest of the team, I spent the week redesigning (~9hrs) the design of the warehouse and retexturing (~5hrs) it to fit the aesthetic of the furniture more. Some of the changes made to the warehouse include the following. First off, the game will only support three pieces of furniture to build, therefore it was unnecessary to have five rows of scaffolding. This is also supported by our attempts to reduce the poly count as well as create more space between shelves. From the way players moved into the environment, it was clear that there was too little space between shelves to removes boxes, so this was reduced. There was also too much unnecessary space in the front of the warehouse, so everything was pushed forward more while cropping the back end a little to reduce the poly count further. The doors of the warehouse were also redesigned to add more interest in that section of the environment. (~4hrs) Next, I UV map

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