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Zainab Tariq edited this page Feb 24, 2020 · 90 revisions

23 February 2020

  • first animation with audio done link
  • tested in VR
  • changed scale
  • changed scale of lights at the side
  • side lights change color after the first animation is done
  • teleportation color changed (script)
  • first room (hallway) assembled
  • Problem: The lineRendere looked glitchy in VR
  • solution: Turned on anti aliasing to the highest value

19 - 21 February 2020

  • finished 1min of Animation with audio
  • interaction script modified to play the right track
  • lighting

17 February 2020

  • solved problem with interaction script. instead of disabling the mesh renderer a coroutine is added and gameObject is disabled after the audio is played
  • first animation is played when the player interacts with the sphere

15 February 2020

  • tried changing color by script
  • Problem: If single material is used for multiple game objects the color changes for all of them
  • solution: create separate materials for all of the gameObjects (Sphere and Lasers)

12 February 2020

  • add more laser and Spheres
  • Script for spheres to orbit around the player
  • Script for sphere interaction

03 February 2020

  • add more animations for laser and spheres
  • add color animations

17 January 2020

  • installed and tested Unity Steam audio asset for spatial sound

13 January 2020

  • wrote rough storyline of the whole experience

Storyline

The experience starts with the user being in a long hallway with lights on the walls leading toward the back of the hallway. At the end of the hallway the user finds an entry or a doorway which leads to a huge room that looks like a warehouse. There are some transparent spheres floating high in the middle of the room. After sometime there comes a sound with a lot of bass and some red lasers appear that shine on the spheres and the sphere start to shine red too. The sound changes and the laser and spheres start to move making different patterns. The color of the lasers and spheres change from time to time and also the sound changes. After a few of these pattern the lasers disappear but the sphere still stay shinning and start to float around the space and come toward the user. Upon touching the sphere, they make a sound and disappear.

After a few moments of silence another sounds start to appear and with it certain box like illuminations appear in the room. These get illuminated one after another and pulse like sound can be heard. These illuminations appear to move from the front of the room to the back. The sound also appear to be moving from the front to the back, creating a spacial feeling. The user is then led toward the back of the room. where there is another entry and the user finds herself/himself in a smaller room with light objects like shinning ropes and sphere and upon touching them different sound come out of them and they disappear after you touch them. When all of these objects disappear the room gets dark and the experience ends.

9 January 2020

  • modelled and textured another room

Date: 09.01.2019

5 January 2020

  • Completed two more animations

Date: 07.01.2019

3 January 2020

  • Completed one animation of the spheres

Problem still to solve

  • Volumetric light in VR

22 December 2019

  • Applied textures to the room

Date: 20.12.2019

20 - 21 December 2019

  • Used line renderer to create laser
  • Used asset laser machine
  • Set up the scene with the glowing light spheres
  • Animation of the spheres

19 December 2019

  • Test the project in Vive Headset
  • Adapt the size according to scale in VR
  • Set Github Desktop

Problem

  • Volumetric light can only be seen through one lens of the headset

Volumetric Light

Date: 17.12.2019

17 December 2019

  • Aura Volumetric light was deleted because it didn't work with Steam VR player
  • Created 2 types of laser one with Volumetric light asset and the other one with Steam plugin example prefab
  • Updated room 3D asset

Problem

  • Project still couldn't be uploaded on Github

14 December 2019

  • Tried using different Volumetric light asset which also didn't work

Problem

  • Volumetric lights don't work in LWRP
  • Some Volumetric lights still weren't shown right

Solution

  • Load Volumetric Light scripts in the camera

to do:

  • Aura volumetric lights not shown right
  • Possible solution: Steam player prefab Camera setup wrong?

13 December 2019

  • Tried uploading the project to git hub

Problem

  • Files too large hence the project couldn’t be uploaded

Solution

  • Tried using Git LFS (Large File Storage) which also didn’t work

12 December 2019

  • Auro Volumetric Light asset installed

Problem

  • All Shaders were shown pink

Solution

  • changed all shaders to LWRP
  • Volumetric Lights still didn't show

10 December 2019:

  • Tried making another laser material that glows and is static

Problem

  • There was no hollow around the light and neither shadows casted by the light

Solution

  • One possible solution would be to use volumetric light

4 December 2019:

  • Fixed the speed of the time for the grid shader by using multiplier node since boolean only has an input in Shader Graph

Grid Shader

Date: 26.11.2019

Grid Shader Shader Graph Nodes

26 November 2019:

  • Created Grid shader for the Room in Shader Graph
  • The UV translate in X and Y Axis by using time node

Problem

  • The animations/ translation of UV is an infinite loop

Solution

  • Possible solution would be to change the speed by setting the time to 0 instead of 1

Laser Shader

Date: 20.11.2019

Laser Shader Shader Graph Nodes

20 November 2019:

  • Created shader for Laser in using Unity Shader graph

Problem

  • Shaders were shown pink

Solution

  • Shader Graph only works with either LWRP (Lightweight Render Pipeline) or HDRP (High Definition Render Pipeline) of Unity
  • For VR LWRP is better!

14 November 2019:

  • Set up Unity project
  • Steam VR Plug-in installed

12 November 2019:

  • Defined worst and best case

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