Project - Designing a Virtual Environment

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Project - Designing a Virtual Environment

• Erik Brisson
• ebrisson_at_bu.edu

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Designing a Virtual Environment

• General Issues
• Theme / story / message
• Audience
• Physical space / venue
• Available technology
• Development constraints

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Designing a Virtual Environment

• Design Issues
• Overall design vision, visual/aural theme
• Kind of space (interior, exterior, etc)
• Navigability
• Scale
• Methodology
• Tools

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Landscape Plans
Used without permission from http//www.medwaycoo
pbank.com/main/color_landscape_plan.jpg
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Landscape Plans
Used without permission from http//www.smartdraw
.com/examples/preview/index.aspx?exampleResidenti
al_-_10
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World as set of simple objects
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Grid on ground plane
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Top-down view
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Add axes for Cartesian coordinates
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Specifying horizontal quadrilaterals
Horizontal square (x0,y0) (2,2) (x1,y1)
(4,2) (x2,y2) (4,4) (x3,y3) (2,4) On ground
(height h 0) hquad, x0, y0, x1, y1, x2, y2,
x3, y3, h hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Specifying vertical rectangles
Vertical rectangle base line segment
endpoint0 (x0,y0) endpoint1 (x1,y1)
height h vrect, x0, y0, x1, y1, h vrect, 2,
5, 4, 5, 2 vrect, 4, 5, 4, 7, 2 vrect, 4, 7,
2, 7, 2 vrect, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Specifying cylinders
Vertical cylinder base circle center
(x0,y0) base circle radius r height
h vcyl, x0, y0, r, h vcyl, 0, 2, 0.5, 3
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Plan drawing on graph paper
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Specifying cones
Vertical cone base circle center (x0,y0)
base circle radius r height h vcone,
x0, y0, r, h vcone, 2, -5, 1, 2
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The remaining rectangles
vrect, -1.5, -3, 0, -3, 2 vrect, 0, -3, 2, -1,
2 vrect, 2, -1, 0.5, -1, 2 vrect, 0.5, -1, -1.5,
-3, 2 hquad, 2, -5, 4, -3, 2, -1, 0, -3, 2
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The description file
hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0 vrect, 2, 5,
4, 5, 2 vrect, 4, 5, 4, 7, 2 vrect, 4, 7, 2,
7, 2 vrect, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2 vcyl, 0, 2, 0.5,
3 vcone, 2, -5, 1, 2 vrect, -1.5, -3, 0, -3,
2 vrect, 0, -3, 2, -1, 2 vrect, 2, -1, 0.5, -1,
2 vrect, 0.5, -1, -1.5, -3, 2 hquad, 2, -5, 4,
-3, 2, -1, 0, -3, 2
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Project workflow
hquad, 2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 0 vrect, 2, 5,
4, 5, 2 vrect, 4, 5, 4, 7, 2 vrect, 4, 7, 2,
7, 2 vrect, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2 vcyl, 0, 2, 0.5,
3 vcone, 2, -5, 1, 2 vrect, -1.5, -3, 0, -3,
2 vrect, 0, -3, 2, -1, 2 vrect, 2, -1, 0.5, -1,
2 vrect, 0.5, -1, -1.5, -3, 2 hquad, 2, -5, 4,
-3, 2, -1, 0, -3, 2
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Texture mapping the cylinder
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Texture mapping the cone?