[WEEK 7] Beta Presentation

Sprint 2 - 3D Modelling the Environments

This week's focus has mainly been on writing the design document and preparing for the alpha prototype (~2hrs). A great majority of the written sections in our proposal is complete while a large chunk of graphics remains to be developed in the coming week. The sooner the design document is complete, the better of an idea we have in how the project will turn out in the end. On my end, I am responsible for 3D modelling the environments that will be used in the alpha demo. These are also necessary for producing design comps. The environments will be very low poly environments using primitive shapes and basic forms to form the rooms, nothing too extravagant. Below are a few screenshots of the environments in their current state: Living Room (~3hrs) that will be played in VR and the Warehouse (~4hrs) on desktop; all modelled in Maya. Warehouse Back Side Warehouse Front Gate Warehouse Top-Down View Living Room Back View Living Room Front View Living Roo...

[WEEK 6] Back from Reading Week

We got back from Reading Week and reviewed what each of us accomplished. Expected deliverables for this week include: moodboards for the Living Room and the Warehouse, basic recolouring for the Living Room, a completed final Warehouse environment, and a working spawning objects prototype.

Polishing Snapping and Spawning Objects

Finishing the alpha prototype made up the majority of the work completed this week (~20 hours), but even after the alpha presentation there was still some more work and polishing to do with snapping components together (~4 hours), and then work began on dynamically spawning modular furniture (~2 hours) pieces and that will be the focus of this coming week. Creating the snapping functionality we desired for our alpha prototype proved to be quite the challenge, and this was not because of the logic or technical requirements behind snapping objects, but rather due to some limitations of the A-Frame Physics System library. Before going into these limitations I will go over the two approaches taken to try and create this functionality. The original approach was to take the smaller piece that was attached parent it to the larger object, and then apply translations to the piece to line it up correctly. However, in practice sometimes the transformations would not appl...

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