Hello Everyone,
Week3 was not that fortunate as I thought. Poland was going to beat the world at World Cup this year, but unfortunately Poland was beaten by Senegal.
Day 1
Also unfortunately, my initial plans have to be changed a bit, because of a problem that I was supposed to predict. Gettysburg Battlefield belongs to Gettysburg National Military Park, so I am not allowed to fly with a drone above the park and film it. Thus, I got the new topic, which is equally important, or even more, the Lincoln Cemetery in Gettysburg (please, do not confuse with National Cemetery in Gettysburg). Lincoln Cemetery is a cemetery for African American citizens and Civil War soldiers, as even after the Civil War, United States Colored Troops were not allowed to be buried along with white soldiers.
Day2
On a second day I really wanted to build a VR bowling game, because this game would show me how difficult is to build a simple scene and how the objects interact with each other (ball with bowling pins). This was also a good place to play with sound (the ball hitting the pins, the bowling rolling on a lane) and background music. I found a very good tutorial which showed me step by step how to build a bowling game, here (shout out to FuzedVR). After building a bowling game, I realized that 3d modelling will be very important for me, so I started to work on 3D modelling in Blender, an open- source 3D modelling software.
Day3
We got new, strong computers, on which me and Orrin will be working. It is vital to have powerful computers which are processing and rendering heavy graphics for Virtual Reality content. Later that day, I was trying to show more of my VR content to Sharon, but unfortunately everything stopped working and crashed working in Unity. I was so sad that I could not show it, I hope that next time I will be able fix it and make it even better, especially for Sharon. In the afternoon, Eric Remy taught us techniques for public speaking and presentation. It was a very valuable lesson, as public speaking is an integral part of our life and it is important to develop it. I will try to build up my confidence and improve my speeches. Thank You, Eric!
Day4
Today, I felt like building more games to get used building environments in Unity. Also, Tyler encouraged me to build a baseball game. The game was quite basic, where the user could grab a bat and hit the incoming balls. Because, the game was so real, it was so difficult to hit the balls. I also tried to build the tennis game, and I used my 3D model of a tennis racket. Tennis game was not that successful as the baseball one. In both of these games, I played with colliders, which are determining the place where the collision happens with different objects that also have colliders.
Day5 – testing new things, such as portal, new project
After building these small games, I started to test new things that I can use in Unity. I tried to use portals which can teleport the user to different place. This can be very helpful for my new project, especially if I want to implement 3D modelling, photogrammetry, and 360 videos. The portals can be an interesting way of teleporting to a different, parallel “world.”
Finally, Poland is playing against Colombia this Sunday. Hope they will do better than last time.
JHA
