Star-Hunter

VR Archery App made in Unity - IN DEVELOPMENT University of London solo project for Virtual Reality cm3025

The Project

This project is a 3D VR archery program made in Unity using Unity's XR framework. Contains:

• bow and arrow shooting mechanic
• virtual hands with hand tracking and rotation
• ability to shoot stars and draw lines between them
• menu system
• flexible movement system

Goal

• Connect the stars with lines by shooting them with a bow and arrow to display the picture!

Controls

• Left grip button - pick up and hold bow, release to snap bow to chest
• Right grip button - pick up and hold arrow, release to drop arrow,
• While the arrow is placed on the bow, pull back string to launch arrow
• Left joystick to teleport
• right joystick to turn by snapping
• Menu button to open menu

Screenshots

More features to come!

• Teleporting
• Menu system with customizable options for accessibility and simulation sickness
• Stars that connect with lines
• Pictures shown after connecting all stars
• Sound

Software used

• Project built with Unity
• Unity, version 2019.4.16f1
• Unity Package- XR Interaction Toolkit 0.9.4-preview
• Unity Package- Occulus XR Plugin 1.6.1
• Unity Package- XR Plugin Management 4.3.1
• Github repo - https://github.com/samsherrod/Star-Hunter

Assets used

• Mesh for bow and arrow came from Steam VR originally, but downloaded it from https://github.com/C-Through/VR-XRBowAndArrow
• Virtual hand models - https://drive.google.com/file/d/15LQ3egbh-dlVeDtXJShwwFxTH52d_kCC/view
• Space skybox from Skybox Series Free- Unity Asset Store - CosmicCoolCloud_Eq
• Grass texture for terrain- Unity Asset Store - Grass Flowers Pack Free
• Simple Audio that will be added - likely something relaxing or ambient
• Tent and fire pit with particles. The fire will have a crackling sound as well.
• A whooshing sound for the arrows when they are fired

References:

• https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/creating-bow-and-arrow-gameplay-in-vr-from-vr-with-andrew?projectId=5fbc5135edbc2a0139266a9a#5fbc5227edbc2a0061377314 - bow and arrow mechanic

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8hLKyTiJQ - adding models of hands

• various other help articles from stack overflow and youtube

To view the project:

Currently only built and deployed on personal Meta Quest 2 HMD - when finished will be released