Video Player tutorial

Using video as texture tutorial

Motext on spline tutorial used for creating 'trains of thought poem'

Reddit comment to script - objects to sway: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/9nxil2/script_to_make_object_sway_gently_from_left_to/ e.g. flowers + plants

Source for inspiration of VR formats: RadianceVR : https://www.radiancevr.co/

Tutorial that allowed me to use 'Metaballs' in C4D to create nudirbanch shapes
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyduDSS6TZg)

This is the first video I knew I wanted to integrate - it is from my favoruite anime 'Mind Game' and the scene takes place in a white space, the character is disoriented and wonders where he is while the other figure keeps changing form/shape shifting because he can't decide what the figure should look like. I feel this is a strong representation of the disassociation and 'breaking upon connections to form new ones' said of ketamin therapy trips

Is the most elegant way to fade everything to white by teleporting out of the scene?
> Tutorial suggestion to just create a white face at both the beginning and end of a Scene >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9VOZivb3I

Decision to change the project title to something more poetic and metaphorical, which is hard to make sense of but conjures up a mental image: from A twilight slumber' to ' the scent of a flower we have not found'

With this eluding to the flower I want to integrate video footage of flowers throughout the experience (they are already in my scene)

Additionally the title eludes to another sense (sense of smell), which in turn could become more important an immersive in an instillation set-up

Floating objects script
> I would like to use a physics script for this as I believe it is one of the benefits of Unity when looking for random movement of a lot of objects to apply a script instead of set all the keyframes for an animation


On unity answers I found a code that allows me to adjust singular values through script
-https://answers.unity.com/questions/59934/how-to-an-object-floating-up-and-down.html

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SimpleFloating : MonoBehaviour {

public bool animPos = true;
public Vector3 posAmplitude = Vector3.one;
public Vector3 posSpeed = Vector3.one;

public bool animRot = true;
public Vector3 rotAmplitude = Vector3.one*20;
public Vector3 rotSpeed = Vector3.one;

public bool animScale = false;
public Vector3 scaleAmplitude = Vector3.one*0.1f;
public Vector3 scaleSpeed = Vector3.one;

private Vector3 origPos;
private Vector3 origRot;
private Vector3 origScale;

private float startAnimOffset = 0;


/**
* Awake
*/
void Awake() {
origPos = transform.position;
origRot = transform.eulerAngles;
origScale = transform.localScale;
startAnimOffset = Random.Range(0f, 540f); // so that the xyz anims are already offset from each other since the start
}

/**
* Update
*/
void Update() {
/* position */
if(animPos) {
Vector3 pos;
pos.x = origPos.x + posAmplitude.x*Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.x*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
pos.y = origPos.y + posAmplitude.y*Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.y*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
pos.z = origPos.z + posAmplitude.z*Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.z*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
transform.position = pos;
}

/* rotation */
if(animRot) {
Vector3 rot;
rot.x = origRot.x + rotAmplitude.x*Mathf.Sin(rotSpeed.x*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
rot.y = origRot.y + rotAmplitude.y*Mathf.Sin(rotSpeed.y*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
rot.z = origRot.z + rotAmplitude.z*Mathf.Sin(rotSpeed.z*Time.time + startAnimOffset);
transform.eulerAngles = rot;
}

/* scale */
if(animScale) {
Vector3 scale;
scale.x = origScale.x * (1+scaleAmplitude.x*Mathf.Sin(scaleSpeed.x*Time.time + startAnimOffset));
scale.y = origScale.y * (1+scaleAmplitude.y*Mathf.Sin(scaleSpeed.y*Time.time + startAnimOffset));
scale.z = origScale.z * (1+scaleAmplitude.z*Mathf.Sin(scaleSpeed.z*Time.time + startAnimOffset));
transform.localScale = scale;
}
}
}

Brackey tutorial for scene tranitions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9VOZivb3I&t=939s

I continue to have trouble with material re-mapping correctly in Unity

> the Nudibranch - does the image get more pixle-ly when baked as a texture ??
> Fix coloursheme coheseiveness

This script also worked but didn't achieve exactly desired effect:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Floater : MonoBehaviour{

public float FloatStrenght;
public float RandomRotationStrenght;


void Update () {
transform.rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.up *FloatStrenght);
transform.Rotate(RandomRotationStrenght,RandomRotationStrenght,RandomRotationStrenght);
}

}

This script for floating would have had the exact effect I wanted but is no longer on the assset store :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2wpVFjY0lM

To make an object appear and disappear at a desired time in my timeline i need to use ACTIVATION TRACKS - this tutorial explains that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Py1UqUJQo

* do math on the waterfall so it disappears as it is retreated

For future - how to create uniformity in sclae and position across multiple scenes?

Work around to make the planes rotate : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIh8PYGP7w

Script is used to create a custom pivot through which the point of rotation can be changed - however do I still need this transition? Or could such a transition only work if EVERYTHING happens in one scene and there is no scene change? Or could it start tipping as the transition starts? - Problem is that for this scene the skybox is black and I can't change it to the skybox of the second scene without altering the lighting..

Tutorial 1 - by Brackeys creates a crossfade but it is as an overlay in a 'Flat scene'/Screen space only - I've changed the space to world space so that it it would apply to the 3D VR environment.
Still I need to adjust multiple parts of the code

* the if(Input. -) method has to be something other then GetMouseButtonDown because I want the scene to load on it's own; not that the user has to push any button; something that wouldn't work inside the VR experience anyways.



Also the IEnumerator is triggered by the "Start" animation of the crossfade animation sequence that connects two scenes through the LevelLoaderscript - however I think this needs to be connected to my Timeline animation but I am not sure how I can script this trigger connection differently.

Tutorial link

Other Tutorial link that uses Menu and Buttons to change scene in VR set-up

In the context of the Ketamin therapy such string of 'random' videos can be understood as memory fragments.

Or solution approach: add trigger?

I know I have to use

UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

I don't know what my if condition should be to transition the scene?

Could I use a collider that I animate at the end of the scene? Then move the FPS controller into the box collider and create my if - statement out of that ..?


I should try to combine this simple script that uses the Box collider as a trigger ( which I will animate at the end of my scene) and the crossfade transition

Brackeys Tutorial on Reflection Probes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhELeLnynI8

Tutorial on HDR Skybox for Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrafK93FtX0

Tried this script: problem with the code in tutorial : I need to assign guiObject but cannot - same problem with the other variable used for this in his gitHub update - probably easy fix but showing up issues in my console

Have script OnTriggerLoadLevelV2.cs from his github: https://github.com/UnityTutorialsHD/Unity-Tutorial-Assets

I used a cube with the script on it - then disabled meshrenderer and used as box collider - the cube is then animated with animation track - on - off in the timeline

+ if I do the Gameobject - UI - Image and create a canvas with white image it just shows a black rectangle when I run the game in my view

I have the levelLoader approach from this tutorial

https://medium.com/@setzeus/steamvr-2-0-tutorial-scene-switch-2b2905591813