2 weeks and counting

Ok, where am I and what am I doing… My tutor has been able to make contact with the estates department, and some progress towards getting our hands on the plans has been made. I may get them early next week, fingers crossed. Anyway, lets see what happens, but I really appreciate all the help Joe, my tutor has given me.. I already know getting your hands on plans to a University is one hell of a complicated task, but he has more chance of success that I, being part of the Uni after all.

Past weeks progress includes, registering a domain, finally. I have been producing a new interface, which is currently incomplete. I have combined the page with some pretty special JavaScript, but when placing the Unity 3D player into the scene, the JavaScript seems to become disabled…. So im gonna have to do some fiddling to see if I can get round this, or I shall have to go back to something like the old design, which operates around iframes. Though I want to stray clear of page scrolling as much as possible, which the use of iframes may very well produce. But if I can’t get this JavaScript to work, then I may not have much of a choice. I thought it would be appropriate that the new interface design included the look of the University’s website, as I had intended the finished product to be integrated with the University’s site, for all users to access. I have had a lot of thoughts concerning the design of the website, as the current University’s site isn’t the most glamorous, but discussions with co-workers concluded that I should used the Uni site design. I’m battling on with Hendrix and Lindsey’s 3D pieces and hope to have them both completed by the end of today… I guess you’ll find out when I blog tomorrow, lol. A few screenies are below; I especially enjoyed making the water in Lindsey’s piece.


Im Lovin this water


Concerning the work for Hendrix, its the small details which make his 3D pieces special for me. We still have a few buildings, cars, stereo, bench, and a few other bits to put it. Its gives a lot of realism and atmosphere :)

Back to my project… With the 3D engine, I have managed to complete the coding for simple object interaction, and to query the database to display information. So I have at least the basic side of the project completed. Things are looking up, and with the major deadline just under 2 weeks away, your bound to be nervous, there’s plenty of work to be getting on with.