Term Project Milestone 9

      

Brief Overview:

This week, I primarily worked on the Alpha environment. I worked on the placement of books on the four different lecterns and the addition of background music tracks whenever a book is placed.

I coded the book placing interaction with the lecterns, and if a book is released at the correct lectern, it gets placed and music plays. Using the custom particle component, I also added a few particle effectss to make it easier for users to spot the hidden books as well as have a visual indicator as to when the music starts playing.

This week's sprints' hours and statuses updated
This week I:
  • Worked on the release/place book interaction
    • Depending on which book is placed, a different track starts playing
    • The location of the book needs to be at the lectern when a user clicks release
  • Added sparkle and music particle effects to Alpha
Creation of next week's sprint in full detail
During the following week, I plan on:
  • Working on the networking for the book interactions in Alpha (there are a few bugs with the particles and placements)
  • Adding onscreen text prompts for the book pickup and placement in Alpha
  • Start working on the final presentation
  • Polishing the code for the Delta environment (and adding more comments)

Challenges:

The main challenge I encountered this week is not one that I have solved yet. It is a bug that I am planning on fixing next week. For some reason, only the first player who joins the room is able to place the books down on the lectern and trigger the book being placed. I am not sure why this is happening as I have not encountered this issue before.

Successes:

This week, I was able to successfully add the placing of the book. Each book can only be placed on one lectern, and the music tracks that get played are linked to which book gets placed. I was also happy with the particle effects I added for this interaction, which add to the overall feel of the environment.

Number of hours spent on the project:

I spent ~ eight and a half hours working on various tasks this week.

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