Virtual Reality 2021/22 spring

Portfolio

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Create a Google Drive document for your portfolio. Answer to the questions from the lecture 1. Task sheet.

Submit links to your google drive portfolios (in a text file):

Lab Structure

• Instructors will present the challenge for the week
  • And sources to check out to achieve the results
• Global Standup:
  • What you did
    • Also post a screenshot or short clip of what you did (results, bugs etc)
  • Stoppers
  • What are you working on
  • The Dreams - what you want to do next
• Optional: chance to present/talk about what you did last week
  • This gives an extra point or two
• Planning Standup for next time at the end of the Lab
  • The Plan - what you will do next
  • What difficulties you expect, any help you need there
• Global standup should take fiveish minutes in total
• If not physically present, the Standup information will need to be entered in Discord
• The main portion of the Lab is for
  • Team sync
  • Figuring out specific tasks for each individual
  • Getting any feedback from the instructors
  • Start researching and working on the tasks
• The Second Lab is just for working and asking questions

Lab 1 - Introduction

Lab slides are here.

Remember to also add links to the Analysis Video with the 5 observations that you made to your portfolio! Use GDrive, Youtube etc. for hosting.

Lab 2 - SW dev best practices

The PC software and Quest development instructions can be found here.

Lab 3 - SW dev best practices

Tasks:

• Talk to potential teammates (in 1-2 groups) - find things and goals in common
• Find and form a team (meet for doing the following things)
• Define roles in your team
  • Set responsibilities for each team member (leaders, who is writing the wiki, who builds the game etc.)
• Draft a one-page project description
  • 2 paragraphs introduction
  • 1 story/playthrough/plot draft
• Create at least one visual mockup
  • paper, cardboard, sketches
  • Take a photograph of your mockup (will be added to the wiki)
• Draft deliverables for the four checkpoints
  • Write down a list of features for each milestone
• This plan will be reviewed (but not presented) in the next lab
• Link to register your teams

The homework has to be posted on the courses Wiki page that will be created based on the contents of the sheet

Lab 4 - Immersion

• Set up your game repository. A guide to using Unreal with Git and LFS can be found here.
• Every teammate has to push one commit to make sure that they can do that
• Find suitable free environmental assets from the marketplace (every teammate has to pick at least 2)
• You can start with:
  • Unreal permanently free content (Usually can be used in any game engine, but check the license first)
  • Unreal own free content (UE only)
  • Quixel Megascans free content (UE only)
  • For Unity you can check their free asset store content
• Using those assets put together a first preview scene (locomotion is not needed)
• Add a picture of your first preview scene to your wiki page.
• Write a short description what you did and add a list of asset sources that were used for that.

Lab 5 - Locomotion

• Implement teleportation in your project (can be premade)
• A non-trivial form of locomotion from https://locomotionvault.github.io/ (implement from scratch yourself - you can look at existing solutions as reference) e.g. smooth locomotion
  • One per team member (try to cover lots of different options)
  • Show visual debugging of this in the delivery video
  • You likely want to handle collisions, be mindful of this
• Implement one comfort option per team member E.g. vignetting
• Some hints on how to implement the functionalities can be found here.

Lab 6 - HCI

• Implement at least one menu system in your game. It can be either:
  • Widget based menu (needs to have more functionality than the basic VR template built-in menu).
  • Any other type of menu, for example, a spatial menu that uses buttons or levers for interaction.
  • Some hints on how to implement the functionalities can be found here.

Lab 7 - Interactions

• Implement interaction functionality that you were planning to your project.
  • Show the interactions in (a) short video clip(s) in your wiki.
• Some hints on how to implement the functionalities can be found here.

Lab 8 - CG in VR

• No new lab homework tasks. Continue working on active issues.

Lab 9 - Visuals in VR

• Download the button and the lever base models from here.
• Fix the problems
  • Separate button into two moving parts
  • Fix the normals on the button
  • Fix the shading on the parts of the lever
  • Fix the origin of the lever handle to make it move nicely
• Import them to Unreal
• Create LODs for them

Include an image of the new lever and button in your project to your project wiki!

Lab 10 - Lighting (in VR)

• Light a scene in your environment and post a screenshot of it in the Projects Courses Page. Make sure it runs on Quest.
• For Unreal Engine related material check out the official documentation.
  • Lighting the Environment
  • Mobile Previewer: check out what lighting will look like on Quest using the Vulkan preview

Lab 11 - Sounds (in VR)

• Make your very own sound effect for your game. Post it in your project wiki page and Discord.
  • You can generate the sound using software like Vital and LMMS
  • Alternatively you can record sounds and edit them to work properly.

Lab 12 - Animation (in VR)

• Animate an element in your game using as many of the 12 animation principles as possible (at least 3) and add a video clip of it to your Projects Courses Page and Discord.
  • Animating in Sequencer
  • Timeline Component