Sprint 8 - Beta and More Furniture

With the situation with COVID-19, scheduling of various projects has been interrupted greatly, including the progress on this project. Originally, it was planned that we would present the Beta build of our game, however that changed in the wake of the epidemic. Instead, I put together a video highlighting the key features, changes since Alpha, and what's to come before the final submission (~4hrs).

Besides the Beta, I had intended to work on VR functionality and getting VR controls working whilst doing testing with an actual VR headset. Unfortunately, this was interrupted by the outbreak so I shifted my focus on the other furniture.

I returned to the Table model and stripped it further by removing the skirt from the tabletop. I've also adjusted the symbols on the component to make them smaller and more distinct. The smaller size allows the symbols to get hidden after combining (~2hrs). Previously, the components had greenStar --> greenStar everywhere. Although the matching nature felt good at first, we soon realised that it could also mean legs should connect to each other, which they shouldn't. Changes to the combination are shown below.

I have adjusted these changes to the table and began stripping the chair (~3hrs). Thus concludes this week. As of Tuesday, I've acquired an Occulus Rift and will begin implementing controls after I've stripped all other furniture.

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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

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