Interactive-Visual
Visual elements play a huge part in the narration of The Exchange.
Here is my design process.
Scenery Prototypes
Procedural Animation Prototype 01
This prototype demonstrates the narrative potentials of simple cubes.
By animating their transforms, different sceneries would be built in real time.
Procedural Animation Prototype 02
This is another version of real-time scene loading by procedural animations.
Players could see scenery interpolates to each other based on their position.
Early Level Protoype
By combining both of them together, we are able to make a scene that has no preload objects. Every single piece of geometry is in a flow:
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Activate
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Morph to designated transforms
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Deactivate
The narration takes place during the flow.
Architecture
Unity Jobs & Optimization
Deal With Ton of GameObjects
Dealing with a ton of GameObjects is part of the project setting.
Using Unity Jobs helped offload position calculations to multiple workers.
[2581 marching GameObjects in real time] [All 10 groups activated]
Toggle Jobs base on need
Groups of objects take turns being activated.
3-5 moving groups could already achieve a visually exciting scenery.
[2581 marching GameObjects in real time]
Code Structure Visualization
Welcome to the Morphing Garden
An Executable feature showcase in Unity URP 2021.3.3.f1 (LTS)
Minimalism & Modularity
Procedural animations could find their uses beyond scenery constructions.
It is reused in sending visual instructions, or receiving feedbacks.
Interaction Prototpye
Interaction Prototype - Turn
Visual indicators would behave differently according to different states.
(Demonstrated by Cecil Boey)
Interactive Prototype - Wave
The need for separate UI is significantly reduced.
Therefore the game is presented as a well-integrated entity.
(Demonstrated by Cecil Boey)
Integration
Visual design in harmony with Interaction design.
What's shown in this footage becomes the building block of this interactive visual journey.
Progression In Static Form
Houdini is used to project a sense of progression in static geometries
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Misc In Dev
Welcome to our digital Liminal Space
