I found the final project to be a daunting undertaking. For me, the virtual reality class has always been a struggle that I have tried my hardest to learn from, in spite of how difficult it was at times. I still don't consider technology or animation to be a strong suit of mine. Still, looking back, I can say that I dabbled in virtual reality and can do some aspects of it. For my final project in Unity, I decided to create a dreamscape within a subconscious. It was such...

For my VR class' independent learning requirement, I read the book "Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Videos Games" by Robert Denton Bryant and Keith Giglio. I was intrigued by the book because I had always wondered how video games were written. This semester, I had gained experience in writing for journalistic purposes, such as feature writing, profile writing, and critical writing. I had even read a screenwriting book a few summers ago. But the art of writing for video games was foreign to me. The more I thought about it,...

Completing Assignment 6 was relatively simple.  In order to make sure I did the job correctly, I went on YouTube and found some simple, short tutorials on how to attach sound to a specific object in Unity.  For all of my assignments, I have been building off of the Campfire assignment from weeks ago.  The Mixamo character and my 3D model were added in subsequent assignments.  Because the campfire is still in this Unity project, I decided to add the sound effect of a campfire.  So I went on Soundcloud...

When it came to using 123dCatch, I was in the group whose apps stalled in the same position for more than 24 hours, jeopardizing our ability to do the assignment.  The last time I checked my phone, the app was still stalled.  The first two scans I took were done relatively quickly but they were terrible.  So, I deleted them.  It was the third one that went on the infinite processing procedure.  I wasted an entire weekend waiting for that thing to make a decision. So, it was quite a...

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...

"I have no clue what I'm doing."  I've been thinking that thought a lot lately.  With both of the assignments that I have done so far for NEW 600, there has been an element of fear at the center.  When the time came to do Assignment 2, building a simple landscape on Unity, I was blown away by how simple the entire procedure turned out to be.  In the blog entry pertaining to that assignment, I might have spoken about how my fear exacerbated the situation until I finally got a...