Kah Suit pass me the arduino during the class so that i can take of it. I emailed our lecturer Jazmi to borrow the cable for kinect camera and he replied that he will bring it during the class and we need to pay him deposit and he will give us back the money when we return the cable. We gather again a day right before alpha to check up the progress. I also make a call to MM department so that we can meet up with Jam during wednesday class.
I start to worry about the progress since they didn't post much update beside leon. Kah Siut started on the graphic but the artstyle that being apply needed a lot of time to just finish on graphic. At another side, Gerry (technical) had source out the coding for flash. And i ask him to try animate with some object. So Gerry and i starting to find out how to animate object so that the code and trigger it easily so we kind done a prototype to test during the alpha test.
Then i help out Kah Suit on creating the animal in the jungle so that she concentrate on designing the forest scene. I spend around 2 hours plus to create these animal. As for the tiger i download the free vector from internet and break it into part so that it is easier to animate. As for orangutan and rhino i trace it from the reference i found before.
I aslo trace out this tractor and upload it to facebook at 1am.
14/09/2013
I gather them to come to IIS 10am in the morning so that we can set up and do our work ! As usual as a logistic leader i head to IT department to get the locker key. Then i set up the computer with Leon while waiting for other to come. Gerry come after a while then Kah Suit because she wake up due to her rushing the graphic progress until very late. Then i order them to start their work and i go check whether Jam is free. when i go find him, he is helping another group to solve their problem and he is kind of busy at moment. So in the end we didn't get his help for that day. So i go back to IIS and continue doing design work. And gerry and Leon was testing the projector.
Because our starting page can be trigger ad but inside the graphic still haven't finish so inside is like some random graphic.
i found out the paddle didn't suit the graphic so i create another one on the spot.
Then i go help out gerry and leon on setting up the projector. Since we shooting from far and the screen in out of proportion so i did some adjustment and ask Kah Suit to take down a photo so that we can check back the set up.
During the alpha as a leader i know that we basically not yet ready for it. So when the lecturer was here, we try to show our progress and what we are facing and how we are going to solve it. So, i start from showing our group graphic side, which appear the lecturer feel quite happy with the artstyle but not so happy with the progress. Then the contents and song that were found by leon was checked by Jazmi. And he advise us to have more the 5 different splash sound so it sound more real when we randomize the sound. After i present our story that are refined, Shahnim say that we can have a loop to the story which means the ending and the start can be connected. And try to add in different climax. She also gave us some advice like maybe add in some voice over or narrative to help people stick with the story while exploring the nature.
Shahnim are very worry about our group progress so he ask us to write down the hours we need to finish the work. And ask us to capture picture every time we work for progress record purposes. She call to visualize the data if it is too much for us please cut down the story plot.
After that we show the animation we have got with random graphic. Lecturer seems to be ok with coding. Jazmi give us some advices that we can add in different speed and stop point for user to interact with video or animation.
Since the animation don't have much graphic, Shahnim asked our group to create a prototype show that we can test with the projector.
So i used 30 to 45 minutes to create a sample for the group to test.
After letting the lecturer had a brief idea that how our interaction will be they ask us to cut down the story plot from 5 to 3 section, then ask to discuss where to cut down and how to refine the story plot and focus on three animal. So that we can finish our progress on time.
After that, I gathered my team for a meeting to discuss how we cut down the story. And tell them we need to progress our work faster. Although there are other assignment need to rush but we need manage our times. So i ask them to write how many time they need for progress their work. I also tell Kah Suit to voice out when she needed helps. During the meeting we confirm that we are aiming on 5 section of the story. First, intro as what we discuss last time, then Orang Utan, Rhino and Tiger ( the three most endanger animal in Malaysia) and end up with people planting and saving the forest. We proposes the idea to the lecturer again, we were good to process.
Then i saw a post on facebook that Fiona help us to book a classroom with Jam in 15/08/2013 to solve our coding problem.
As we show the size of the projector, I realise the screen size is abit too small. I try to place in different place to make the screen bigger but in the end we need put the projector behind the boat. So quite sketch out and stand and wonder Kah Suit is able to call her father to create out the stand and send to us together with the boat.
15/08/2013
After class, me and gerry go for lunch and then we meet Jam at MMLAB 1 to solve our coding problem. Jam bring his previous coding and teach us how to connect arduino with flash. It take around 30 to 45 minutes then we settle the coding problem and we are able to trigger the animation through arduino and flex sensor.
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