Unity Virtual Project: Final

For my finished VR project I worked with the terrain tool as well as looked at some other graphical features of Unity. In hindsight I think I should've attempted a more directed look rather than just a conventional semi photoreal look to the project. The Particle also no longer roots out which I just removed as trying to make it more responsive to searching out nodes was looking at a bigger and more complex system as well I had to account for memory limits and at the time I didn't have a good understanding on the limits of the VR rig. I was able to make the Nodes span out over an area and then raycast to find the terrain below it and match the height of each point so they nicely blanket the surface. Sadly a lot of the functions of the particle ended up getting cut as I mentioned earlier this was due to the amount of overhead just to make a single particle function properly in a network and migrating the code over to the line renderer which due to my oversight created a lot of overhead for restructuring a lot of the behaviour.

One of the things I enjoyed working with graphics was manually constructing the textures such as the sand normal map which gives it a lot of dimension where the grass was a lot less successful working with just noise to simulate grass blades. The water I found worked the best. The asset I used rendered a photoreal animated texture of waves with a reflective map however a big issue was that it wasnt transparent and I couldn't make it produce transparency without interfering the graphic script so I rebuild my water from scratch. First I figured out what settings to build the wave refraction on the surface of my water object while adding translucency, then I simply duplicated the texture and had them move horizontally in a sin motions to simulate the movement of water.

Unity Virtual Project: Progress 2

After reviewing Scriptable Objects I learned that they are actually way more useful than I thought just not useful for my actual project. Scriptable objects cant be edited on the GameObject but one can make new instances and save them as their own separate data class which is useful for large systems that need long term memory or making an array of different settings for a set of objects.

The VR system is still unstable but I was able to make the particles pass information between eachother and created an off state so that they enter a rest state after a few moments so that takes a lot of stress of of the CPU having to update so much of the worldspace. I've also set them to update slower the larger they get so as the network expands it also slows down the component referencing which is taxing in large amounts or at least the way I organized it.

Unity Virtual Project: Progress 2.5

Working on my Game project in my free time I was able to make a for loop system that reads all the attack points in my scriptable objects and then move onto the next attack if the player presses the attack button again.

I did a bunch of coding in class time and I was able to make the amount of resources stored in each object slow its update speed so as parts grow larger they will update slower and that helps stop them from expanding too much and causing visual errors. I also set the particles to make branches out of Lines instead of making new objects for every space, this way I reduce each connection to 1 object despite the distance and I can render them using the Line Renderer component which is a bit tricky to use but is 2d while matching the camera so it saves processing time. now I just need to work on a scene to use it in to complete the experience.