On Monday I didn’t go to school because I had driving lessons, I did some programming for the interaction in the morning and the rest of the day was for non-school related stuff.

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Tuesday Shtilyan and I started building the ramp that we wanted to put in front of the installation. Because stuff needed to finish I told the rest of the team that I wouldn’t go home before the ramp was done. By the time it was done it was already 19.00 and I had been at school for 11 hours! It needed some sanding and then it should be done. We left this to do for Wednesday.

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On Wednesday I tried figuring out how to change scenes in Unity so that every time that we get to a new part of our interaction it will change scene so that the computer doesn’t need to load everything at once.
Below you’ll see a video with some testing with changing the scenes.

Also Marieke brought the skateboard deck that we are going to use as our controller. The day before we decided to change the interaction from the hand movement to the skateboard. You’ll interact by leaning forwards or backwards.
In the morning I already tested a Accelerometer that I got form Harry and Marieke returned with the skateboard at 14.00. I tested the board and had some problems with OSC when playing the unity file.
Every time that I load the scene I got the error that I couldn’t create a new OSC port with the same variable. Talked about it with Douwe and he suggested that I should put the OSC Handler inside the DontDestroyOnLoad. I couldn’t get this to work and decided to try it again the next day.

 

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So I thought about it in the train on my way to school and thought of the idea that it would be way easier to just load everything in one Scene an disable the things that I do not need and enable the things that I want to scene. So I’m creating my own scene’s actually.
For this I created a simple script where I can disable a certain GameObject (that will be a “scene”) and enable a different one. I can also enable and disable cameras via this script and it almost works perfectly. (I always forget to film these things because I’m to excited if it works and want to move on so sadly no video ☹).
I do have a video of me testing the scene switching!

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The last day Shtilyan came with a comment that we should use some kind of rack for people to hold on to if they think it is to scary to use the skateboard as controller. I asked a friend of mine to help me weld this thing together and made a appointment with him on Saturday evening.
Because the hologram was finally glued together and fitted inside the top part we could test the screens. We tested the screens before but for some reason the screens were not bright enough now so we needed to come up with a new plan. Sacha had brought her beamer and we tried it with this and it worked much better! We decided to use the beamer instead of the screens and asked our sponsors if they had some beamers lying around.

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Here is a picture from the installation with the hologram and the ramp. Sacha's used for measurements (She's 160cm)