Flavin- Things were better this time
- by Madison Kulkarni
- November 2
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Compared to the previous assignment, I'd say that this one, Assignment 4, went surprisingly well. In class, I was able to save time by using the class time available for working, under professor supervision, to create a character on Mixamo and then download that character into Unity. The fact that I now have Unity and Playmaker on my laptop also saved time. The process of downloading my Mixamo character, Pearl, onto my laptop was quick and easy. Once I could see the character within my Unity landscape (although her face made her look like a zombie), I turned to the video tutorials available on our class' website (www.vrstorytelling.org) and used two of them to animate Pearl. The videos were very understandable and well-paced. I didn't feel like I was being rushed or talked down to. The box collider to get Pearl to do her movement, standing up from a squatting position, worked out. Except that, when Pearl made her movement, she took one step forward, disappeared into the ground, and never came back up again. This baffles me. I don't know what commands I put in or the computer put in to make that happen. Still, I achieved the goal, somewhat, of making her move when I, the first person controller, approached her. After the disaster that was my Assignment 3, I feel much better about this one, Assignment 4. Things were better this time around. I am still in no way, shape, or form a VR creation expert. But I know now that I don't have to go into panic mode when I don't understand something. I have the videos to help me, along with my previous experience and my laptop tools. I felt more relaxed with this assignment. Now, I just need to transfer it from my laptop to the Newhouse server. That particular part I might need some help with...
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