Virtual Reality World Project

My idea for my virtual reality world: a jungle-themed maze (a regular maze that leads you to a jungle-like environment with wild-life and plants.

The process:

I first started with a very simple maze, I scaled a cube to make it my floor and then I incorporated walls throughout the maze, which had to be modified a lot and rotated frequently.

This was the outcome of the maze portion of the game. Since I wanted the maze to be jungle-themed I utilized environmental textures such as a grass floor and rock textured walls, as well as a couple of trees throughout the maze. The hardest part of creating the maze was getting the walls to meet up evenly, as well as making sure they were all interconnected. When trying out the game I would have to see which walls were not even and which ones had gaps. It was also difficult playing around with the directional lighting because it would create shadows which made it difficult to navigate my virtual world.

When you escape “the maze” I made a jungle-like terrain which includes a variety of wildlife and an abundance of trees. Once I got around to this portion of my project this is when I started having trouble. I kept getting a bunch of errors due to the importing of different objects from assets. I had to upgrade my unity and modify my world a little bit so that the actual game would work.

This is the final result of my project. All in all creating a virtual world was an interesting experience. Using different softwares such as Fusion 360 and Free-cad allowed me to conceptualize my world and make it easier to create a virtual reality. The experience was a bit frustrating since things had to be perfect so I would not get errors when attempting to actually play my game. Although I created a relatively simple maze, when playing the game from a different perspective it made it so much harder to navigate the maze. When playing I would frequently end up right where I started, so I included a palm tree at the start so I would know that the starting point. Since I do consider myself a “struggle bus” student, I did find it difficult to navigate the software but once I started playing around with it I was able to make my virtual reality. I am attaching the video of my friend playing with my virtual reality world down below. I made my friend play through the maze a couple of times so she could do it smoothly in the video.

I had a lot of fun throughout the semester in this class and really enjoyed all aspects of the class. Thank you so much for everything !!!!