{"id":110,"date":"2016-10-20T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=110"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:32:12","slug":"inching-forward-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2016\/10\/20\/inching-forward-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Inching Forward at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the headline implies, been feeling like I&#8217;ve been stuck in the longest traffic jam known to mankind.\u00a0 Side work has taken a lot of my dev hours &#8211; 4 paintings and a logo will do that to even the most unencumbered man.<\/p>\n<p>I have had the fortune of joining a dev Slack that centers around a set of tools for VR creation. The VRTK Group has been amazing in their support, ideas, helpful suggestions, weird humor (heck, I even got an amazing voice-over line from one of the devs)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poweredByVRTK.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poweredByVRTK-300x229.png\" alt=\"poweredbyvrtk\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poweredByVRTK-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poweredByVRTK.png 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The other, not so great thing about this group is that its impacting my wallet. I just found out about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=unity+asset+store+final+ik&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8\"> Final IK<\/a>, and amazing rigging tool that just added VR support. When the Slack members started passing around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4DjwC-0aoKE\">this video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VRIK Sample\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4DjwC-0aoKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just about freaked out, because this kind of player controlled interaction would be PERFECT for my BUM experience. I could use some of the VRTK scripts for grabbing objects, I could have the player control the homeless person, grab a cup, and if I get the input from the controller, make a change rattle sound &amp; trigger NPC&#8217;s walking nearby to either drop a coin or make a disparaging remark.<\/p>\n<p>Now, before I get too far ahead of myself &#8211; I&#8217;m still stuck at getting the Final IK solution to work &#8211; as you can see by the video below, it looks like the player is swinging from a Jungle Gym:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VRIK swinging in the breeze\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRkbPol_L6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>not to mention that from the VR vantage point, the player is seeing the inside of the avatars head. Not overly selling the idea, but yet again &#8211; one step closer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the headline implies, been feeling like I&#8217;ve been stuck in the longest traffic jam known to mankind.\u00a0 Side work has taken a lot of my dev hours &#8211; 4 paintings and a logo will do that to even the most unencumbered man. I have had the fortune of joining a dev Slack that centers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2016\/10\/20\/inching-forward-at-last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inching Forward at Last<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}