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TEAM CAVE See Schedules and Checkpoints http://www.failedlife.com/TeamCave.htm March 22 Team Members: Kathy Law Emotive motion TEAM FLOCK Converting an emotion into an action depicted by the movement of the flock.

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1 Schedules and Checkpoints

March 22

TEAM CAVE

– http://www.failedlife.com/TeamCave.htm

TEAM FLOCK Team Members:

Kathy Law – Emotive motion

– Converting an emotion into an action depicted by the movement of the flock.

David Rusbarsky – Flock object

– Converting the emotive motion into Muppets so that it is accessible to team CAVE and team MUPPETS.

Tasks:

Emotive motion
Flock object

– Interoperate with team MUPPETS – Interoperate with team CAVE

Event response from lead bee

– changing emotions and following the actor- controlled bee

Schedule:

Checkpoint 1 – Apr 5:

– Basic flocking working outside of Muppets

Checkpoint 2 – Apr 19:

– Flocking with emotions outside of Muppets

Checkpoint 3 – May 3:

– Integrate flock with emotions into Muppets. – Incorporate networking into the solution

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2 Team INFRASTRUCTURE

– http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rmc8917/vt/

Team MERRY MELODIES Music Overview

What is it? What should it sound like?

– Dynamic soundtrack

Composed in real-time
Reflects what's happening
Input to algorithm includes...

– Scene mood – Bee emotion – Possibly interested in bee position, next flower, & cues

How? - major/minor, chord progressions, tempo,

dynamics (soft/loud), predictable/chaotic...

Music Tasks (with estimated checkpoints given)

Requirements/Research

– Make sure it can happily coexist with other audio (1) – Research algorithmic music in light of this project (1, 2)

Design/Implementation (outside of Muppets)

– Identify how different musical elements convey emotion (1, 2) – Design an algorithm for composition/improvisation (1, 2) – Implement the algorithm, using a test app for input (2, 3)

Integration

– Integrate music module with Muppets (3)

Sound Effects

3D positional sounds with surround sound playback –

mostly done. It can handle playing a 3d sound, but needs to have the update cycle fixed so the source can move and have Doppler effects.

Voice communication? If people want voice chat I can add

it in.

Currently only supports WAV files. Add more formats

such as MP3 and OGG.

Sound is only for Windows.

Sound Tasks

Finish the 3d sound. Just need to fix up a

few things. (1)

More file formats (2)
Voice chat (3)

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3 Team MUPPETS Team Muppets

Things that need to be done (checkpoint):
Maya importation tool with full skeletal

animation support (1,2,3)

Hook up to a media server (1)
Persistent level/storage editor (2)
Make interface for flowers system (1,2)

More stuff to do

Integrate with stage manager cues system (2,3)
Audience member avatar and interface system

(2,3)

Interface with the music (2,3)
Interface with the VR stuff (head set, glove, flock
f bees, etc) (1,2,3)
Clean up outstanding issues, such as bugs,

collision detection/handling, etc (1,2,3)

Team VR

See:

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Schedules and Checkpoints