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OLP WEEK 9: MUSEUM MULTIVERSE COLLAB ART BLOG: PLAN, LAYOUT, BUILD PART 9 (FINISHED THE MUSEUM MAIN GALLERY HALLWAYS NOW ON TO BUILDING PAINT GALLERY OF ANIMATED PORTRAITS)
Museum Multiverse Collab Art Blog: Plan, Layout, Build Part 9 (Update to `Finished the Museum Main Gallery Hallways now on to building Paint Gallery of animated portraits)
This is just a quick update on my progress. This week in addition to starting a new job, I focus my time with texturing the scene for the Museum Hallway. I have finally finished texturing this scene for the museum hallway. Here are some screenshots of the completed scene. The paintings on the wall show a foreshadowing history of the creature that player will encounter as they explore further into the museum.
This week I will be focusing building the next two scenes hopefully to finish the the rest of the level by the end of next week. Currently all of the completed scenes that I have been finished are now in Unity to have gameplay implemented into them.
This is just a quick update on my progress. This week in addition to starting a new job, I focus my time with texturing the scene for the Museum Hallway. I have finally finished texturing this scene for the museum hallway. Here are some screenshots of the completed scene. The paintings on the wall show a foreshadowing history of the creature that player will encounter as they explore further into the museum.
Shots with just the textures.
Shots with the Lighting
This week I will be focusing building the next two scenes hopefully to finish the the rest of the level by the end of next week. Currently all of the completed scenes that I have been finished are now in Unity to have gameplay implemented into them.
Week 9 / New Team?
Local Nonprofit might help out
After last week’s set back I spent quite some time this week
in meetings with a local nonprofit trying to assemble a new team for the
remaining weeks. It looks promising and we also started fleshing out a more
realistic budget. Supposed to meet with another potential contributor first
thing on Monday. They might even be able to dig up some actors for Scene 2.
I also reached out to the fourth person with VR skills in
Montana and C.J. agreed to help me with the coding for swipe interaction. If
for nothing else, last week’s YouTube video narrating the scenes was definitely
helpful in getting C.J. and the others informed.
Creeping out the neighbors
Until I have funding to pay an artist/animator to create my
onboarding avatar Michael suggested that I draw the stereotypical, chubby
Indian boy in the four most important poses. I haven’t drawn ANYTHING since I
graduated from high school! That was in the 80’s. Do I need to mention that I
was freaked out? The first one, “Welcome,” took me the longest. By the time I
was working on the second image, “Explore,” friends and family were posting
about Crow Fair on Facebook. Partly to battle homesickness and partly to get
the bouncy walk right I listened to a Crow Hop song by my uncles on endless
loop.
Though the first two turned out all right I really had a
hard time with the last two, “Story Time” and “Swipe” because of the perspective
and their movement. But then I had the genius idea to just ask some random
neighbors to let me take a photo of their kid… Not quite sure why but
apparently that might come across creepy. I might have ruined our chance to
ever integrate into the neighborhood.
Onboarding Avatar as a 2D sprite for the prototype
The first scene is now provisionally assembled.
My stereotypical Indian is a 2D sprite positioned around the viewer in a
landscape.
Looking forward to reporting more progress by the end of
next week!
Hi OLP!
As I go further into creating this game, it’s been overwhelming how much there is left to do. Designing and building 360 content has been a huge challenge. At this point, I’m unsure if I can complete all of the submission requirements in time for the Sept 10th deadline, but this has been an incredible learning experience nonetheless. Many areas are new to me, and it’s been entertaining to uncover what else is out there. Huge contribution to this motivation is because my Oculus Rift came in! Getting into the headset here at home has been tons of fun. As someone who usually has no interest in shooters, it was a pleasant surprise to find Robo Recall extremely fun. Also the Blocks app! I’m definitely no artist, so being able to quickly create something without any 3D modeling knowledge was awesome! I bring you a nine-tailed fox statue. https://vr.google.com/objects/fEErTtEMnTT
Will continue working on building out the demo level this week. Until next time!
Ack! I added my post to the wrong thread (Alton Glass's, lol). I'm copying and pasting to here.
Anti-Bias Classroom Training App - Clorama Dorvilias (in Collaboration with Jessica Outlaw)
Hii!!!
This weekend I made a goal to finally finish the game introduction, where the user is greeted by 2 Lab Scientist and then sees the doors open. --I failed.
I'm up in Alaska for work again, and between the stress of that and the allergies from the "birch'' trees and weird foggy head affects my colleague and I were getting from the altitude, I spent most of the weekdays just fatigued and sleeping super early for the next days events.
As a result, I only had Saturday and Sunday to focus on it. I had already built out a full scene with animations of doors opening on Unity 2017.1 Timeline, only to see that Chris Pruitt had recommended not using it until next year a couple days ago. I figured it had been working fine for me the past week so I would continue moving forward on it and then I saw a blog from Cherryl S. Espinosa saying that you couldn't submit with it for a technical reason....I decided to keep going any ways and then one after another, I kept getting errors for random things.
I decided at this point just to go back to Unity 5.6 and naturally, everything was broken with the re-import.
Between OVRAvatar sdk not recognizing a camera call for the renderer, and issues with animated objects going haywire, I decided to start from scratch. In this way, as I'm reconfiguring each object, I'll at least be able to better locate/isolate the source of the technical issue I'm coming across.
What I did today:
- Created a new scene,
- imported the OVR Avatar + Oculus Utilities package,
- Added my Oculus rift ID,
- imported a 3d free modular kit for the environment,
- Recreated the lobby with the different objects,
- Added animations (using good old fashion timeline editor) to the doors to open
- re-imported some free humanoid assets,
- re-imported the animations I mixed together from Mixamo,
- After much troubleshooting, configured some of the animations on to the avatars.
Next:
- Create the scripts to trigger the animations for the doors opening and lab scientists responses
- Configure an event system, with a UI that allows user to select a question from list that the avatar will then respond to for the Introduction + Training.
- It really sucked that out of the 4 free humanoid avatars that Render People gave, every single character was professionally dressed (which would have been perfect) except for--guess who...black female! Talk about implicit bias. -_- Could have been saved a lot of work time on this alone.
Anyways, so now add to the list of 'finding clothes or forking over dough on the asset store and customizing the meshes on more professionally dressed avatars." - Creating scene transitions to load the scene into the game next, and then back to lobby for 'results'.
- VR Workflow: A Full Case Study
- Adventure Game Tutorial by Unity 3d (great for architecture inspiration)
