Love Yourselves: VR experience

In the beginning, I’m not familiar in uploading Mixamo’s animation to Unity, but thanks to Miss Buket providing me a useful tutorial to solve all my questions. It has taught about the usage of Unity such as animator controller tool, keyframe animator and timeline. While arranging the animation with Unity timeline, I’ve met a lot of trouble and technical issues. For example, the character has disappeared or moved away from the initial position after hitting play. Luckily, it’s not hard to solve it after seeking help from my lecturers. I would just need to create an empty parent for the object and add a rigid body component but untick the gravity. 

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I've never used the software Blender before but I'm forced to use it to adjust the hands posture. The assets that I installed online are in Blender file and it could only be edited in Blender. There're 2 kinds of rigged hands in the VR film, which are teenage girl's hands and adult woman's hands.

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The picture on the left shows the teenage girl's hands which appear in the park scene. It's made to ensure that its in a holding love letter posture.

These hands are shown in the office scene, and they have been edited in 2 postures: resting pose and stopping pose. The players could find the difference of the main character's emotion by looking their own hands.

Moreover, switching scenes in Unity required a C# script to function as the picture shown. This code is given by one of our lecturers, Mr Ashley Brown and the tutorials that given by him are all very helpful for my current project.As I wanted to create a fade in effect in every intro of my scene and a fade out transition before switching every scene, I used a tutorial about making UI to look good to achieve my requirement. The reason why I insert all the effect one by one is because Unity doesn’t have this effect in their software so that I need to create all of them on my own.

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Creating a VR film is somehow similar with a usual 3D game experience, but the exporting steps and format are different. I’m very glad to have Mr Jaimz to help me export my project. In the beginning, Android Studio (AS), which is an external software that we downloaded cannot be opened and the VR project couldn’t export successfully. After several testing, I found that the AS has been installed in a wrong version, and it works well after reinstalling it. Other than that, the canvas with text and subtitles aren’t showing properly on the Oculus headset but it looks fine in the game view. I tried a few methods to resolve it and I found that ??? overlay would not work on Oculus so I need to change it to the specific OVR camera and also adjust the canvas distance from the camera.