Vishva

[satguru]

After struggling for the last couple of months , I  was finally able to put together something which works

I have created, what I like to call,  a "live scene editor".

Here you basically move around in a scene, as an avatar and make changes to it.

You can check it out here 

http://ssatguru.appspot.com/BabylonJS-Vishva/intro.html
 

Be warned that it might be very buggy.

Still working on instructions on how to use it.

Source code at

https://github.com/ssatguru/Vishva

Written, of course , using Java and JSweet 

 

[DigiHz Data]

Really cool. Keep up the good work.

[iiceman]

That's really super cool! Good job satguru! It's already alot of fun to play around with and it has so much potential!! O_o

[satguru]

@DigiHz Data @iiceman

Thanks Guys

[ozRocker]

This is cool!  Your camera work is much better than my virtual world.

[satguru]

@ozRocker  Thanks

Much of the credit goes to Babylon’s orbital camera .  

It provides lot of functionalities out of the box.

It is great for exploring things – orbiting around , zooming  into or panning around things.

Great for editors and of course great for virtual worlds where much time is spent exploring

I like it a lot and use it whenever I can.

I use it to follow the avatar - both in third person as well as in first person view.

If you zoom in, very close, into the avatar you switch into first person view but the camera still remains orbital.

I use it for objects too.

And for objects I also mimic some of the camera behavior in SecondLife / Opensim.

So if you select an object by right clicking it and then focus on it by pressing “f”,  you will see that the camera’s focus, animates slowly from the avatar to the object.

Also try another thing.

Focus the camera on an object,  orbit and/or zoom the camera to a different position and then press “Esc” to deselect the item or just move the avatar.

You will notice that the camera animates slowly back to its old position around the avatar

 

Edit: By Orbital I meant the  ArcRotateCamera, - not sure how that got stuck in my mind

 

 

[ozRocker]

I tried using ArcRotateCamera but I couldn't re-position the camera.  It just wouldn't move   I used free camera instead in my virtual world (http://www.punkoffice.com/animtest ) .  I'm not that great at Babylon.js so I'm sure there's something I'm doing wrong.  

[satguru]

So an idea I had been toying around with was to create something called an AvatarControl, (kinda of like my EditControl).

The user will provide an avatar with appropriate animationRanges (idle,walk,walkback,run etc) and pass that to this AvatarControl.

The AvatarControl will then control the movement and camera.

var avatarControl = new AvatarControl("myAvatar", mainCamera);
avatarControl.start();

 

You can Vishva too. To use Vishva ,this is what you will have to do 

• create an avatar with animationRanges called "walk,walkBack,idle,run,jump,turnLeft,turnRight,strafeLeft,strafeRight" 
• add this in a folder under "webapp/vishva/assets/characters" (https://github.com/ssatguru/Vishva/tree/master/webapp/vishva/assets/characters)
• update "webapp/assets.js" file (https://github.com/ssatguru/Vishva/blob/master/webapp/assets.js)
• now when you start Vishva your avatar will show up under "add-> characters" menu
• use that to add your avatar to the scene
• select the character and choose "use as avatar" from the edit menu.

Time to start documenting all this 

 

 

[Dad72]

12 hours ago, satguru said:

So an idea I had been toying around with was to create something called an AvatarControl, (kinda of like my EditControl).

I love this idea.  Then add it as an extension to Babylon 

[satguru]

@Dad72

Adding this to my growing list of TODOs 

 

Also as an FYI,  have added some documentation for Vishva

See

https://github.com/ssatguru/Vishva/wiki

 

 

[Maverton]

Great job I'm just getting started and hope to reach an understanding of how to get my 3d pipeline into Babylon.

[satguru]

Thanks @Maverton

Let me know if I can help moving your stuff into Vishva.

[ozRocker]

Tell me when you get multiplayer working with this.  I'm trying to learn it at the moment.

[satguru]

@ozRocker

Multiplayer is interesting and I would explore it, eventually.

 

As far as Vishva is concerned, I want to keep it as a Single Player system.

I want to populate it, not with multiple players, but with multiple NPCs.

And further, not any kind of NPCs but AI driven NPCs.

AI services are becoming very common and easier to use and I want to see if I can tap into that.

 

I want Vishva to be more about creating  "experiences".

Think of it as Sketchfab + interactivity +avatar + AI  driven  NPCs.

 

For now I want to get the basic stuff in – major being material, particle and physics.

Also want to flesh out the sensor – actuator framework.

My code is becoming a big spaghetti mess, would have to refactor that soon

Lots of work.

Few  months just doing the basic J