TEAM CAVE See Schedules and Checkpoints - PDF document

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. • David Rusbarsky – Flock object – Converting the emotive motion into Muppets so that it is accessible to team CAVE and team MUPPETS. Tasks: Schedule: • Emotive motion • Checkpoint 1 – Apr 5: – Basic flocking working outside of Muppets • Flock object • Checkpoint 2 – Apr 19: – Interoperate with team MUPPETS – Interoperate with team CAVE – Flocking with emotions outside of Muppets • Event response from lead bee • Checkpoint 3 – May 3: – changing emotions and following the actor- – Integrate flock with emotions into Muppets. controlled bee – Incorporate networking into the solution 1

Team INFRASTRUCTURE • See Team MERRY MELODIES – http://www.cs.rit.edu/~rmc8917/vt/ Music Tasks Music Overview (with estimated checkpoints given) • What is it? What should it sound like? • Requirements/Research – Dynamic soundtrack – Make sure it can happily coexist with other audio (1) • Composed in real-time – Research algorithmic music in light of this project (1, 2) • Reflects what's happening • Design/Implementation (outside of Muppets) • Input to algorithm includes... – Identify how different musical elements convey emotion (1, 2) – Scene mood – Design an algorithm for composition/improvisation (1, 2) – Bee emotion – Implement the algorithm, using a test app for input (2, 3) – Possibly interested in bee position, next flower, & cues • Integration • How? - major/minor, chord progressions, tempo, dynamics (soft/loud), predictable/chaotic... – Integrate music module with Muppets (3) Sound Effects Sound Tasks • 3D positional sounds with surround sound playback – • Finish the 3d sound. Just need to fix up a mostly done. few things. (1) It can handle playing a 3d sound, but needs to have the update cycle fixed so the source can move and have • More file formats (2) Doppler effects. • Voice chat (3) • 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. 2

Team Muppets • Things that need to be done (checkpoint): Team MUPPETS • 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 Team VR • See: • Integrate with stage manager cues system (2,3) • Audience member avatar and interface system – http://muppets.rit.edu/~dre9227/ (2,3) • Interface with the music (2,3) • Interface with the VR stuff (head set, glove, flock of bees, etc) (1,2,3) • Clean up outstanding issues, such as bugs, collision detection/handling, etc (1,2,3) 3