For this week's group project, Kevin and I decided to work on an extension of his Week 1 sound collage, which mimic the fire situation in San Francisco. We made a virtual sound walk in a long hallway that has three windows. Sound collage in the first window represents normal city life, and the sound collage in the second window represents the fire is gradually happening with news playing in the background. The last window is where the fire started getting bigger and bigger, and the helicopter is flying.
Through the virtual sound walk, we hope that people who are not in California right now could get a sense of the urgent fire situation and how it changed people's daily life.
Challenges & Learnings:
Unity Collaboration:
Once we planned out what to make, Kevin was in charge of downloading assets that fit the scene and I was in charge of finding visuals that fit each window and making sound collages. When Kevin shared the Unity files with me through google drive, the scene is empty when I opened it, but all the assets and packages are in there. So, we tried to use Unity collaborate. The same thing happened. We tried to export as zip file too, but that didn't work either. After spending a long time to troubleshoot it, we decided to divide the works and work on Unity together through share screen on Zoom. We are going to try to see if there's anything he didn't export property, and work on that again.
Creating visuals in Unity is not how we imaged it to be:
When we planned the scene, we wanted it to look like a real house hallway. But, as Kevin adding windows and images and furnitures, they all look weird because the assets' styles and colors are all different. Then, Kevin started making the two-toned colors, which made the scene look so much better and added a mysteries vibe to the scene. Also, the images for the window that represent normal life and fire clouds ended up looking like paintings, so we decided to remove them. The result let people open their imagination, and gives out a nervous and horror feeling, which was totally different from our wildfire centered theme.
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