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Research Blog – Research And development Process

Purpose

The main purpose of this project is to create a VR Music project. Based on ideas, imagination and solid research, Using MetaHuman to make 3D characters, download assets & online models to create the VR environment.

Introduction

The music that I chose for this VR movie is called Nevermind by Dennis Lloyd, Nevermind” is a track Lloyd wrote while living in Bangkok, Thailand. He moved there to focus on writing music, and met his ex-girlfriend there, where they dated for a year and a half. Lloyd states that he wrote the track at the beginning of their relationship. The track starts with the chorus, with Lloyd asking his ex if he left, would she tell her friends and would they support her through it. But then decides against it: “Baby, never mind, never mind.” I believe the song is about man who wants to be loved but is scared of leaving her or him getting left by someone but she is playing the victim. Thus he states, ‘’ your friend hold your hands’’. The first verse is Lloyd admitting that he is “ready now” for a relationship, but just asks his lover to be honest with him about being just his. After the chorus again, the second verse is same as the first one, except he is asking if his lover wants to “see his fire” rather than be his lover, and then the chorus ends the song. The song is very upbeat and dancey and has been received with extremely positive reviews.

The lyrics of the song:

What if I left and it made no sense
And you tell your friends
And they hold your hands
Baby, nevermind, nevermind
Nevermind, nevermind-What if I left and it made no sense
And you tell your friends
And they hold your hands
Baby, nevermind, nevermind
Nevermind, nevermind-Alright, I’m ready now, ready now
I ain’t gonna, I ain’t gonna fall back down now
Alright, I’ll take it on, take it on me
Take it on me, hmm, babyAll I, I ever ask, ever ask
Are you gonna, are you gonna be my lover?
Tonight, and take it with, take it with me
Take it with me, hmmWhat if I left and it made no sense
And you tell your friends
And they hold your hands
Baby, nevermind, nevermind
Nevermind, nevermind.

My thoughts & ideas

my ideas is to create a scene that looks like where Lloyd live in Bangkok, Thailand. Where there will be a swimming pool, house, gym and other stuff. And there will be two characters one is Lloyd and another one is his ex girlfriend. And the scene will represent the time when they just met each other and started their relationship. The scene are made base on the story behind the lyrics.

Problems

First of all I use maya to create some furniture for the interior of his house, then I apply some texture on the top of the chairs and tables, however it takes a long time and also when I import it to unity the color does not appear on the furniture, thereforeI have to redo it on unity. Also from the start I was trying to use maya to put some light inside the room which can helps to show more clearly about the interior, but when I import to unity I can not find the light, because of the errors that on the top right corner I can not process the music and the animation of the two characters.

Then when I made everything I just realised I didn’t change the system to android, and it contains a lots of errors on my console, therefore I can not show my animation and sound.

Solutions

while doing research online and finding videos about how to animate the characters, I realise there are so many easier way to model a product, some of them can even just download it online and import it to unity which saves me a lot of time and in unity I found out the app called unity asset, and there are plenty of ideas that inspired me from 3D to 2D, ground to sky, people already made it which convenience other people but some of them have to pay for the product as it’s very complex but fancy! I got a lot of inspiration from the resources, and its really helpful, by modelling and import the resources mostly from Sketchfab and unity and some products I made in maya, it solve a lot of problems for me, right now the only problems for me is to add the VR camera and delete the main camera, but in order to link on the bar headset there still a little bit more stuff need to do, and I already watched the tutorial on YouTube which I will catch up on that later on.

These pictures are my latest process on my project, and there are still quite a few stuff that I have to change, i will keep improving and updated.