For my independent learning project I chose to seek out some further guides on using Playmaker for Unity. Initially I tried to watch some of the lynda.com videos on blackboard, but found that most didn't touch on playmaker. After searching through lynda.com and not having much luck, I went to youtube and found a great series of tutorials on playmaker. Although the guy creating the videos has quite the accent, I found his videos gave some really useful tips to make animating easier. My favorite tip was renaming objects for...

This assignment tasked us to add sound to a scene in Unity. Originally I thought that the class exercise of being in the sound lab would be my project, since the sound tracks would be up and I could try to recreate it, but when I didn't see the tracks I went to Plan B. My next idea was to add to my increasingly absurd scene something from my summer, my first trip on an airplane. I found airplane and jet assets from the asset store and then picked from...

Utilizing 3D scans for this project was great in theory. It truly brings reality to VR, and seems like a stepping stone to the future of VR in journalism. However, in practice utilizing 3D scans can be a frustrating process. First using the scanner to obtain a 3D scan can be tricky to grasp. You must have the red thermo field over your target to even begin the scan. I found this tricky for both humans and objects, but especially tricky for objects. Then at all times you must stay...

This assignment was the first that didn't seem to be 8,000 problems for me. I like the way that Mixamo is very user friendly, and that you can take a prefab character and animate it and have it functioning in your scene in just a few simple steps. For my project I just chose a random character, Andromeda, who I thought looked strange enough to be doing the strange animation I added to her for my scene- spinning on her head. I added one Andromeda head spinning and another Andromeda...