November 17th Posting – The Moral Coders

What each individual in the group worked on over the last week

I continued to work on tutorial familiarizing myself with Unity.
I began to develop the terrain for our project and worked on adding textures + normal maps to create more realistic detail.

Collaboration debugging
Experimented with creating environments and exploring them with a first person controller
Added collision detection and mass to models (physics!)
Debugged loading unity model into HTC Vive

Asset hunting
Experimentation and practice via an assortment of available Lynda tutorials
Acquisition of 3D modeling/animation utilities (3ds max, maya) normally only available for exorbitant cost

A description of the accomplishments made

After the reading n.9 we discussed and finally agreed on the basic scenario.
We finished a plan for the next week.
We set up the project with environment (including ground, grass, hills, trees, road and car) and shared it among our group

A description of the problems encountered

We struggled with the collaboration tool as it was not uploading/updating everyone’s work creating some conflict within our project.
We had to spend some time to set up the HTC; it was not working when we got to the lab. Problem was the Oculus was plugged in instead and also we had to run the Steam VR as administrator.
Tony – Unity mixed up projects on my computer, I had to delete them and check out from cloud again

Plans for the upcoming week

Caroline
- Continue to develop the environment and create specific scene for the final project
Tony
- Work on the coding/inputs to load into the Vive controllers for the decision-making.
- Schedule additional times in the lab to work.
- Create the weekly blog post
Galen
- Create car and work on script for car movement
Frank
- Find/create people crossing the street
- Figure out how to animate the people as well as give them behaviors that will make them seem lifelike

Media

Virtual Reality