Year: 2019
The First Four Months – Year-End Thoughts
It’s the dawn of 2019 and a good time for reflection. Back in August shortly after receiving my Quest I began to finally work on a project dear to my heart for so many years now already. The Eternals was an adventure game I always wanted to make but I had to realize I could […]
Logo Time & Itching towards release
Having settled on an intended release date for the very first tech demo for end of January, some additional aspects besides the pure game come into the spotlight: A final game name and logo A company name and logo A recognizable communication theme Accounts on social media and discord Accounts on software distribution sites & […]
VR Play Area & Stable Fit
Since I am working on an Escape Room setting where the player should be allowed to freely walk around in virtual reality without teleporting, the play area becomes hugely important. First the terms: Boundary: The actual line the player has virtually drawn to limit the available play space Play area: The biggest possible rectangle that […]
Stencils & Sorting Geometry
Back in my initial post on the stencil buffer approach I had used a simple heuristic for setting the correct render queue. As I feared it didn’t hold up for very long. There are not only 2 layers that need to be set. Let’s look at the picture below: What’s going on here? The back […]
Halloween Death Traps aka Random Paths
It’s Halloween, nobody came this year to get chocolate, and so while I was eating all of it I finished another nice world building feature. I already showed how easy it is now to include mazes. A similar concept but with a totally different feeling in VR is walking on a narrow path up high. […]
Constructing Endlessness
What a week. While I was constantly building features into the Maze VR world builder I knew that one topic will not go away: the transitioning between the rooms. I had already thought about the three different options in a blog post before and looked at their pros and cons. More and more I get […]
World Building – Snapping
With the Maze VR world builder constantly learning new tricks, I had somehow forgotten about one really important time-saving feature. All elements that can be put into the world start at their local (0,0,0) and then expand towards z to accommodate different thicknesses of objects. A poster is for example very thing, a wall on […]
Field Research
While developing traVRsal I want to keep an eye on other projects out there with similar concepts as I just love such experiences. This list will be constantly updated as I discover new experiences! Free-Roaming Games traVRsal Since I am the developer of it, allow me to start with my game. Combining procedural and manual […]
Creating a labyrinth
Now that I can statically define elements using a tile map I was wondering if there is an easy way to integrate some dynamic aspects as well. I had been struggling with one problem in particular. If a user has a small play area, in order to give him the feeling that he can wonder […]
Constructing scalable VR worlds
With my earlier tests so far I had defined every element of the world in the editor and there was some special logic for floors and ceilings so that I didn’t have to specify each grid tile separately. That had two big drawbacks though: complexity and format-lock. I had by now 6 levels to expand […]