{"id":633,"date":"2016-11-11T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/?p=633"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:56:18","slug":"prock-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/2016\/11\/11\/prock-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prock Update 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Mickey and Ken got into the lab for the first time, set up our environment, and made sure everything runs. We&#8217;ve set one weekly meeting time in that lab on Mondays but are looking for another one.<\/p>\n<p>Updates on Development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;boxes and lines&#8221; model is shaping up. Basic live code layout is done<\/li>\n<li>Set up a physical model using gravity\u00a0such that boxes self-organize in VR (instead of us having to statically assign positions.) This is done by (brutally) abusing Unreal&#8217;s gravity model, redirecting gravity for specific actors at specific vectors. All boxes repel each other while lines pull on the boxes on either end, keeping them together.<\/li>\n<li>Switched from pure C++ back into blueprints. They&#8217;re very powerful, which makes us confident about our project!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up &#8220;Framing,&#8221; or the batching of blocks and lines into logically consecutive statements<\/li>\n<li>Logan will look into &#8220;Scoping,&#8221; or figuring out how to show relevant representations at every level of abstraction<\/li>\n<li>Starting work on Running or using the Vive to set up VR controls and gestures+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Mickey and Ken got into the lab for the first time, set up our environment, and made sure everything runs. We&#8217;ve set one weekly meeting time in that lab on Mondays but are looking for another one. Updates on Development: The &#8220;boxes and lines&#8221; model is shaping up. Basic live code layout is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/vr2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}