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Plastic Paradise

Made by kanjur and Amukta Nayak ·

Our project aims to illustrate the effect of trash on the environment. Through a 360-degree virtual reality view of a world covered in trash, people will come to learn that trash doesn't end its journey simply in the trash can.

Created: November 19th, 2018

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Download the APK onto your Android phone, and use a Google Cardboard viewer to see the trash world in full! Link below:

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Final build: tinyurl.com/PlasticVR
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Production Timeline

10/18

2 hrs

Brainstorming: Thought of the original idea and pitched it

10/20

6 hrs

Bulk of the project: Made the basic VR project. Pivoted to boat moving in an endless ocean instead of a river. Struggled with lag and ugliness. Decided to only release for Android since iOS has a ridiculous developers’ fee.

10/30

2 hrs

Class time: Prof. Corbett told us that the lag is caused by Unity’s terrible water shader, and not just the number of polygons in the scene as we suspected. We agreed to use a custom water shader. We also took a suggestion to have something cute and organic die in the boat for an impact.

11/7

4 hrs

Final touches: Added a more efficient water shader to eliminate lag, added a cute bunny that dies tragically.

14 hrs

Total

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Allocation

We met up at each time and did the work together, also brainstorming and making corrections as we went.

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Iterations

All the old builds and iterations are in the builds folder in the main drive folder.

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Assets

Water shaders, models, and sounds are credited in the main drive folder.

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//Code sample of boat movement
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Circle : MonoBehaviour {

     private float RotateSpeed = 0.06f;
     private float Radius = 700f;
 
     private Vector3 _centre;
	private Quaternion _centrot;
     private float _angle;
 
     private void Start()
     {
         _centre = transform.position;
         _centrot = transform.rotation;
     }
 
     private void Update()
     {
 
         _angle += RotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
 
         Vector3 offset = new Vector3(Mathf.Sin(_angle), 0,Mathf.Cos(_angle)) * Radius;
         transform.position = _centre + offset;
		 transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0,(RotateSpeed/(Mathf.PI/180)),0) * Time.deltaTime,Space.World);
     }
}
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Our project aims to illustrate the effect of trash on the environment. Through a 360-degree virtual reality view of a world covered in trash, people will come to learn that trash doesn't end its journey simply in the trash can.