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Being Sidetracked (continued…)<\/p>\n

This is the first post since the end of August and I’m still off track. Pottering I think. About six weeks ago I saw a competiton for VR work that matched the geranium project<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/geranium_2022_submission.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

In preparing for entry I reconfigured parts of the project and added some effects in the rain garden and the painted garden, storm effects and shadows, and also did a lot of work preparing the piece for Quest 2 as well as The Index and Vive.<\/p>\n

Although you can easily build for both platforms you have to switch the platform in Unity to do so. I now know that while it switches without a problem it won’t switch back without causing all sorts of glitches.\u00a0 I’ve spent far too long building two versions of a very big Unity file. The advantage is that I’ve now got the file updated to a more recent Unity and I can use some better effects in the new work.<\/p>\n

The submission got no traction at all, nothing after the acknowledgement, but my own analysis and discussions with colleagues led to the idea that I need to develop a narrative that guides you through the VR world. So that’s where I am now, trying to write a story that I can take through the process.<\/p>\n

I’ve not been entirely idle alongside this, a few months ago I started a drawing of a fox<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve done some more work on that and it looks like this now<\/p>\n

\"Being

Dark Fox<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve also been working on some found or accidental images, the first is from a piece of plastic acquired from my last workplace, that I thought suggested an interior.<\/p>\n

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Found Interior Chesterfield<\/p><\/div>\n

Drawing<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve carried on drawing every day and you can see the October images\u00a0 here \t\t\t\t

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