mickeyvanolst / photographic-cues Goto Github PK

• Create basic plane with scattered objects that can be hit with raycast
• Connect camera orientation to mouse position with some easing
• Calculate location of where you click on the floor
• Animate camera to position where you click

We'll need to have a playback for the elevation data and stick that into the lake height somehow in a way that kind of works. Potentially show the month/year of the current value that is used.

Visual look

An abstracted version of water that works with reflection. Keep in mind, its a lake and not a sea, though it would be good if we find something versatile enough that we can make it feel a bit more intense sometimes, or at least not totally the same all the time

https://cables.gl/p/95rUpS
https://cables.gl/p/HBSNAS
https://vimeo.com/11708218

• Various tests and experiments, can be a mix of existing and new patches
• An input method for basic interactivity that can be driven by the position of a camera (ie. a position with a velocity vector), or by a texture (camera input as optical flow for example) the interactive element can also be treated as a separate layer that we only make visible when it makes sense for the camera.

I tried a quick fix for this by drawing the cursor as a 2D circle after the rectangles, this works fine, but then later in the scene at the edge of the water you can see a jump, not sure why thats different with this method. I left it the way it currently is for now.

• Pick a location on the landscape scene that feels right
• Place camera on a spline track
• Place floating text snippets along the route
• Create interaction learning moment that cannot be skipped (wait for Mickey to provide interaction function, use just a raycast onto an object for now)
• Camera cropping on top and bottom for cinematic effect
• Smooth transition into free mode once you completed the intro and arrived on top of the lake

we'll need to make something for mobile

• Get precipitation data for Loch Morar, or get predictions of the future
• Parse climate data in a way that you can scrub it and easily hook it up to a parameter

test the experience on a slower laptop to see if you can still click around on the lake

Well need some icon to toggle the high/low res version

and a more prominent way for people to make a choice at landing. Feel free to delete my HIGH LOW buttons.

• Get elevation map for Loch Morar (Mickey)
• Mock-up environment in C4D
• Include trail
• Basic trees (and rocks?)
• Export and setup in Cables

As mentioned, the landscape can just be a small section of the existing lake, basically we take a rectangular chunk of it and consider that to be our world.

For now we use this video as an example

https://vimeo.com/108393262

Bear in mind that the overall visual style isn't quite defined yet with Kizzie, so we shouldn't invest too much time in this since we already have a pretty good example through this video.

Low-effort image props

• scatter 20-30 props randomly in the lake
• let's go with a very basic grid that fluctuates as if its a piece of paper floating just under the surface for now. Then we can also easily instance it and offset its points slightly different for each.

Image submerged => holding in front of you animation

This can be a separate patch with just one single item with an orbit cam, we can consider the previous item as our simple low-res approach which you see from afar.

• for now a basic slider that determines how much an image is "decomposed" basically we need to find a nice way to animate the image from its deactive to its active state. By letting the image be more or less raffled. For instance we could instance a low res version of the image and instance little pixel sized blocks that animate together like this image.

A selection of images can be found in the Google Drive.