Virtual Traditional Malay Wedding

Interaction

2009-05-13T22:57:00.001-07:00

Alone

2009-05-12T11:01:00.000-07:00

Alone... waiting for the groom to come and accompany her...

Interaction list

2009-05-04T19:42:00.000-07:00

Change avatar meshes/textures
-achech/riau/minangkabau

Proximity on sounds and animations

Popup info
-Downries
-Dais
-Kompang

Interact with other avatars

Minimap

Interaction

2009-05-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

Above are the images of the interaction that I had done so far. There are some problem with my user avatar as virtools did not process the export file from 3dmax properly. I have still yet to figure out the problem. There appear to be some bugs and error with the mesh as well as the virtools scripting.

Slight Update

2009-04-16T05:31:00.000-07:00

Retexturing

2009-04-12T04:30:00.001-07:00

Virtools Normal

2009-04-08T03:13:00.000-07:00

Just some lil update

2009-04-01T09:40:00.000-07:00

Done with MR, non bake and incomplete texture :(

Normal and Ambient Occlusion mapping test

2009-03-04T17:46:00.000-08:00

Been doing a few Normal Mapping test for a few days. Tried with XNormal and 3ds max built-in render to texture. Low poly model = 18 polys.

Low poly model

2009-02-20T16:56:00.000-08:00

Update update

2009-02-19T07:25:00.000-08:00

Added a few curtains and furniture, med poly to make the house less dull.

And also redecorate the dais

Inside of Traditional Malacca House

2009-01-08T10:16:00.001-08:00

Details are fun to made.... yeah

Mood

2008-12-29T23:39:00.000-08:00

Quick model of the frame

Tried added more orang'ish color to the light source on images below as suggest by Jerry

Lowered intensity by half

Light blueish for the skylight and pure white for sunlight

No light

Just trying to get the time of the day - noon.
Need to add more details on the texturing,a LOT more details.
Stairs and detailing for the house.
Dais for the bridegroom
Decoration
Dowry
A few furniture
And texture baking

Tutorial for lightings

uhhhh... Heya

2008-12-04T11:30:00.000-08:00

Bad presentation last monday. I put the wrong info on the powerpoint slide, and being nervous, panic and all when doin the presentation, i end up explaining about the "wrong info" instead of thinking that there's something wrong with it. It's not the groom's father, it's the oldest/most experienced relative that do it. Gahhhhhhhhhhh.

I think I'm going to put it down to one event only, the Bersanding ceremony, just like the event at Taman Mini Malaysia, where visitors can experience having wedding ceremony Malay style. Putting a lot of ideas and stuff is fun, but can I finish the application? That should be the main question, at least for me. One person doing research, programming(thank god for basic C++ back in the engineering studies days), modelling, texturing, animating, idea generation, etc etc. Sounds fun, very.

Uniquess? Well, everything in Bersanding ceremony is unique in it's own way.

Ah well.... getting down and all won't help. Might as well squeeze my brain again and think.
Be positive lalalalalalalalalaaaaaaa~~~

Off to Traditional Customs Museum, Perzim, and again Taman Mini Malaysia for more info~~ bye bye sweet romantic candle light dinner

Taman Mini Malaysia

2008-11-30T00:15:00.001-08:00

Last Friday, I went to Taman Mini Malaysia at Ayer Keroh to grab some pictures on traditional houses as data for my FYP

Traditional Malacca House

House Exterior

Pelamin

Interior of the house

Hantaran (Dowry)

Hantaran 2

Bridegroom of traditional Malacca style

Man in long loose bercade robe with velvets houlder decoration, sating trousers and headgear known as 'tarbus' beautifully matched with maiden's brocode Baju Kurung and resplendent head dress.

Me at "my origin's" traditional house, the Kelantanese

Communicate, Objective and Experience, Gantt Chart AND CCE Mind Map

2008-11-21T04:03:00.000-08:00

What is the objective of my application?
To promote traditional Malay wedding to outsiders

What will it communicate?
Uniqueness of Malay culture wedding

What is the user experience goal?
-gain information on Malay culture wedding
-gain interest
-experience

Gantt Chart

CCE Mind Map

My FYP Proposal

2008-11-17T02:06:00.001-08:00

Title
Virtual Traditional Malay Wedding

Abstract
A 3d application simulates real traditional Malay wedding.

Target Audience
The target audiences are foreigners that interested in having an exotic wedding.

Goal
The goal of this application is to introduce traditional Malay wedding to outsiders and letting them experience it easily.
Couples nowadays love doing weddings in other exotic culture, but having problem in choosing which one they wanted due to time and cost needed to understand and learn about other culture weddings. And the Malay culture is hardly known to outsiders especially in the west. By creating this application which focuses on experiencing traditional Malay wedding, foreigners can easily access information and gaining their interest on this unique culture wedding.
By utilizing VR for this application, users would easily get information on how and what usually happen in traditional Malay wedding. Unlike normal video, VR let users use their senses more, thus giving them better experience, especially with the usage of Head Mounted Display. They can also explore the area, and interact with other characters and objects.

Objectives
-to let users get better understanding on Malay culture through Virtual Reality experience
-to promote traditional Malay weddings to outsiders
-to inform others on the adat meminang and bersanding

Description
This application aims at letting the user gets the first hand experience on the vent. The user involved indirectly as a relative of the bride and the camera will be first person view. The user can navigate using directional button on the keyboard, and Enter to interact. Mouse can also be used to get to the other part of the application and by clicking on certain object; feedback and/or information about it will be revealed. The voiceover will be completely in Malay language but English subtitle be included so that no Malaysian which are the main target audience of this application.
The application starts by briefly showing how to control the avatar, and brief information about the title.
Level 1:
-adat merisik and meminang
-inside (living room) of the bride’s house
-evening
-interaction with the groom and his parents for adat merisik and meminang

Level 2:
-hantaran and bersanding
-inside (living room) and outside of the bride’s house
-morning
-animation on the hantaran and bersanding event
-interacts with visitors and a few items such as bunga mangga.

Interaction Description
-Users are allowed to interact with the some of the non playable characters, gaining feedback and/or information on the event as to what happen and why.
-Clicking on several items will reveal a popup windows showing brief information regarding the items
-Users can also skip and/or choose which event to join in both levels
-User can show or hide the interface menu
-Able to navigate using the directional arrow keys
-Proximity sensors will be included on several areas throughout the environment where getting in it will activate the sensor and gives audio feedback.

From VR With Love?

2008-11-16T16:06:00.001-08:00

This is my FYP blog, about Virtual Traditional Malay Wedding.

Why From VR With Love?
Well... wedding won't work without love, aye? I need to love my work to be able to do it well.

This blog will be where i put all my fyp works, as well as my thoughts about it.

And this blog is still new, so as you can see from the layout, it's basically the ugly default ones, and i will change em later, hopefully... still messing around with this blogspot

Virtual Traditional Malay Wedding

Interaction

Alone

Interaction list

Interaction

Slight Update

Retexturing

Virtools Normal

Just some lil update

Normal and Ambient Occlusion mapping test

Low poly model

Update update

Inside of Traditional Malacca House

Mood

uhhhh... Heya

Taman Mini Malaysia

Communicate, Objective and Experience, Gantt Chart AND CCE Mind Map

~~My FYP Proposal~~

From VR With Love?

My FYP Proposal