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I thought long and hard about ways of doing a more efficient & fun VAM home scene. The solution I found is a bit unconventional but I think it's going to work really well and will allow lots of features while keeping the scene clean, lightweight and intuitive. This is a work-in-progress video showcasing just the scene layout, the rooms are pretty empty for now.


HOW IT WORKS

The scene is split in 4 quadrants which act as sort of tabs. There are modular subscenes that fit a quadrant, like a pose studio, music player, cinema room, music visualizer, etc. At any time you can load any room on any of the 4 spaces allowing:
- multitasking without having to load different scenes
- quick background fun stuff like playing music or films; making quadrant subscenes act as a sort of apps too
- infinite number of specialized rooms that work with one-another without having to load them all at once in a single huge scene, bedroom, gym, etc.

OTHER THINGS IN v0.1

- recenter player button - moves you back close to the center
- auto lighting - there's a light automatically following your view, similar to the HeadLightLink plugin, also a light always following the model keeping her well lit anywhere in the scene
- metaobjects progress - plugin that gets attached to objects and defines action that can be done to them and where, the sofa for example will have 2 or 3 sit positions, 1 or 2 sleep positions.  Those positions will then be used by the model to do things automatically as well as allow you to issue quick commands. This is gonna play a big part in allowing the model to 'understand' the environment and have autonomous behaviour 

Files

WxM v0.1 WIP

This is "WxM v0.1 WIP" by xspqrx on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Comments

Anonymous

this sounds realy good. so could you for example load poses for certain objects, also your own poses maybe? and the model goes there and "transfers" into that pose? or would that be a problem, because positions might not work with the angle the person uses to reach that pose? however, realy interesting concept. i like it very much. Oh and maybe a idea, if you have fixed poses for this, the plugin for the objects should understand slates maybe. so for example you have an invisible slate somewhere, with a standing pose on it or whatever and have the person atom this way understand certain locations in a room for certain poses, even when there is no visible object.

SPQRAeternum

that's the plan at least. more like Sims, less like a 3d modelling software for basic actions like making a character simply sit down or stand somewhere