video prep / video transcript

Narration describes key decisions you made, and reflects upon the effectiveness of your

solutions, including how your knowledge of the hardware and software has improved.

Video Plan

ten minutes 1080p

include voice over

three design challenges

challenge one - animated button and lever interaction

key decisions : 

effectiveness & solutions :

challenge two - painting tool

key decisions :

this was the design challenge that i spent the most time on and i definitely found it the most challenging of the three

effectiveness & solutions :

challenge three - interactive door

key decisions :

effectiveness & solutions :

LO1: Ability to develop numerous core interactions that are fundamental aspects of the wide

majority of VR experiences

LO2: Building of a further understanding of game engine development, adding to technical skills

portfolio

LO3: Enhancement of personal development pipeline and professional practice through working

with consistency and regularly documenting their progress

LO4: Improved ability to critically reflect on VR designs and solutions, to evaluate existing VR

experiences with more critical insights, and to self-reflect on their own learning journey more

effectively

hello my name is rebecca and i will be talkign about the three technical and design challenges that i have worked on for this module. Displayed are the design challenges and highlighted are the ones that i ended up attempting.

The first challenge is the in-game painting tool where the player can pick up a brush amd paint onto the canvas. This is the challenge i spent the most of my time on, this is because i believed that it would be the most difficult to complete. I spent a lot of time doing research to see exactly how I could code something in unreal to allow a user to paint on a canvas, through this research i discovered the use of 'canvas render targets' and how they are used especially for allowing a user to draw on something in game. There were a lot of different parts to making this code work to the point where I became stuck on how to make it so the user can paint using a paintbrush. Instead of spending time focusing on this detail, i tried seeing how i could make it so when the user holds the right trigger on their controls it would paint on the canvas instead. In the future I want to see if i can expand on this and try to make it so the player can paint with different colours.

in my second challenge i worked on making an interactive door system, referencing back to my previous experience, i am using similar code that i had done before however knowing my skills have improved since then, i have made some alterations to my code and have made it so the player can open the door themselves using the right trigger rather than having the door open automatically. A challenged I faced during this was again, trying to figure out how to allow the user to interact with the door and I solved this by doing some research and figuring out that I needed to alter the vrgamemode(self) to allow the user to use the controller's triggers in game.

My third and final design challenge that i worked on was creating a small domestic room in which some of the furniture can be re-textured in game, I did this by first working out how to retexture actors in unreal and then applying that knowledge to the small art studio / bedroom that I had previously put together for the two other design challenges. At first I wasn't going to go forward with this challenge because I was working towards making an interactive button and lever system however I didn't see how it was going to fit the theme of my project and also I wanted to try something new especially with allowing the user to be able to alter things in game.

Overall I am happy with how my project turned out, something I want to improve on for next time is definitely spending more time on broader research instead of trying to find niche information. Although overall I can say that I have taught myself a few things in the process of working through these design challenges. Thank you.