Sprint 7 - Finalizing the Living Room for Beta

I spent the earlier parts of this week to fix up some problems with the furniture (~4hrs). This included going back into Maya and Substance Painter to readjust the geometry so it's scaled correctly and adjusting the colours a little to match the lighting more.

I also returned to the Warehouse for a bit to readjust the colour, specularity, and design on the scaffold boards. Previously, I was using template flowers at the beginning of each scaffold to describe what kinds of furniture components are found in each row. I've since created silhouettes of each piece of furniture and replace the flower templates with them (~2hrs).

Finally, the bulk of this week was working on the Living Room. The last time I touched it was for the design comp and alpha prototype, which revealed many design flaws that need adjustments. I redesigned the entire environment to provide more room to work with in VR. This was challenging because I needed to provide a lot more space, but also did not want the room to feel empty either. Looking up reference images helped a lot in finding a suitable design.

The process of developing the living room took for modelling (~3hrs), UV mapping (~2hrs), and texturing (~3hrs). I had to finish modelling, or at least having finalised room dimensions, then provide Priscilla with a GLTF of the untextured room. This had to be done as soon as possible so that she could set up lights and ambient noises in the environment and move on to something else. Below are some renders of the finished environment. I made sure to use one of the mood boards that Priscilla developed.

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This week, I worked on creating all the instructions images for both the Warehouse and the Living Room. Although this was not a very difficult task, it was tedious to work on and took around 3hrs to complete. It was a challenge to adjust to our new schedules given the current circumstances and allot appropriate time to spend on each of our classes. The instructions in the Living Room show the current required furniture pieces and their quantities, which the Builder will need to communicate to the Finder in the Warehouse. See below for an example of pieces required for a table. On the other hand, the instructions in the Warehouse would show the symbols on the different furniture pieces that should touch in order to be combined, which the Finder will need to communicate to the Builder in the Living Room. See below for an example where the green heart marking should be made to touch the green circle marking. I will be putting the source link for these instructions into arr...

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