DESIGN BREAKDOWN

EARLY PROTOTYPES

The principals behind these interactions are that we want our engineers to perform the most while doing less but intuitively.

The above prototypes effectively demonstrates three core interactions for our engineers to perform on the NSA's latest remote controlled droid:

- rotation
- locomotion | two modes to accommodate diverse play styles
- scan

These interactions are designed specifically to ensure each individual hand can perform a single specific function at each time, but can switch between functions instantaneously and intuitively:

- One hand performing functions, one hand free
- Both hands performing same/differentiated functions
- Both hands free

Rotation_Tutorial

Locomotion_Tutorial

Scan _Tutorial

The tutorial of the composite hand functions are integrated into the level design of this particular nsa laboratory to ensure the continuation and immersion of the experience are not broken, while all elements are coherent to the narrative as our engineer relives this section in the form of a pre-recorded droid test archival footage.

PART 01:

- Engineer must rotate the platform to exit to the next section.

- Pathway to the next section are designed to force the engineer to maneuver left and right to familiarize themselves to locomotion.

PART 02:

- Distinguished architectural and color elements to direct our engineer to the final section at the gate for scan interactions.

- a separate path to the left is available to our engineer as an optional target practice area to calibrate our droid for precision motors.

CODE SNIPPETS

OPTIMIZATION WITH JOB SYSTEM & BURST COMPILER by ALEX WANG

Left Hand Utilities State Manager

Same applies to Right Hand Utilities.

Modular architecture where all combinations of hand utilities are organized into specific Enum states for flexible referencing for enabling or disabling of utilities.

Hand Utilities State Interface Manager for scenes that requires specific hand states

Interface incorporated to efficiently trigger all hand states to required states in specific scenes without the inconvenience to manually reference all hand states to a new Monobehavior script for each new scene with new requirements.

Dot Product for Locomotion Aiming

Using ProjectOnPlane to ensure locomotion anchor from Left Hand Index pointing position will be locked vertically, but will follow Left Hand's horizontal movements.

Dots product for hand anchor vertical rotation is clamped to a range for the value to be used against the locomotion speed and distance. In this case, the flatter the index pointing pose is, the further and faster the droid will move, and vice versa.

Dots product is also used extensively in other hand functions with wrist anchors in relative to the ground plane or camera forward transform to create constrains for triggering specific functions.

Scene Progressions Sequence Manager

Scene specific manager script with Enum states to control specific and linear progressions. In this case, the tutorial level for the archival footage scene will progressively unlock more hand functions as our engineer progresses further into the laboratory.

Static Utilities Functions for repetitive uses

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