Tasks completed recently

In the recent weeks I've worked on the game a lot. Below is a list of things I've done, and a list of things that still need to be completed.

Completed:

Designed the city scene which doubles as a skyline in the other scenes. I applied a texture bake technique I learned in a tutorial to bake Ambient Occlusion and Shadows into the scene. This heavily reduces fps lag since there's no need for real time shadows and make the scene look a lot more realistic. You're transported to this scene when you near the exit of the park.

Modeled and rigged a human child model and posed it on the playground and in the room scene. She was created from a program called MakeHuman but I heavily modified her mesh afterwards.

Lit and textured the room scene created by Martin. I also mirrored the room to allow the player to look into the mirror. 

Added moving skyboxes and skylines to every scene.

Completely overhauled the logic for taking a photo. I needed to make it so the camera would raise with a right click then fade away so it wouldn't be there when the viewfinder overlay appeared. Then when taking a photo I needed to remove the viewfinder overlay so that the screenshot didn't capture the viewfinder circle. I also have it so that when you snap a picture a black plane slide in and out quickly representing the camera shutter. Finally when you take the picture a grayscale filter is applied so it looks like you're taking black and white photography. 

Added a camera blur/focus mechanic.

Implemented the inventory system which fades in and pauses the scene when you hit tab. This displays all of the photos you've taken on planes which you can shift left and right. After implementing it I found that it only worked in multitexture mode and not GLSL. I'm currently trying to sort the bugs out.

Need to finish:

Fix photo inventory system.

Add more photo spots.

Lighting in the park

Homework 14: State

The state diagram explains what attributes an object has and what state it can change to at any current time. Below are two state diagrams from my game.

Visibility State Diagram

The first is a model of a girl on a merry-go-round. When you first encounter the merry-go-round it's vacant but when you take a photo an image of a girl playing on the ride appears for a few moments before vanishing. In this case the girl's first state is invisible. When you take a picture of her she becomes visible and starts a timer. Once the timer expires she disappears, returning to the first state.

In Camera State Diagram

The second model is more complicated. It shows the choices the player can make when raising the camera to their eye. If they right click, the camera raises and then fades away changing the view to an in camera viewfinder view. Then, if the player does not want to take a picture they can lower the camera returning to the original state. If they do take a picture the camera snap animates and the scene is frozen for a few seconds allowing the player to see their picture. The game also takes a screenshot at this time. After a moment the player is returned to the in-camera viewfinder view where they can take another picture(looping the state) or lower the camera.