Wooden Puzzle - My first Amazon Sumerian Game

If you read my previous blog Amazon Sumerian - First impressions you will know that I wouldn't stop there -;)

I have been able to play a lot with Sumerian and most important...to learn a lot...the tutorials are pretty good so you should read them even if you don't have access to Sumerian yet...

Once thing that I always wanted to do...was to animate my Cozmo model...that I did on Blender...

I tried doing it on Blender (rigging it and doing the animation but it was getting weird as it worked fine on Blender but not on Sumerian...now I know why...but at the time I got frustrated) but failed...so instead I thought on doing it on Sumerian using its tools...

I gotta admit...at first it didn't worked...but then I kept exploring and realized that the Timeline was my friend...and after many testings...I got it working -;)

Here is how it looks like...

So just go to Cozmo and click on the robot to start the animation and then click on him again to restart the animation...

Simple but really cool -:)

After that...I start thinking about doing something else...something more interesting and this time involving some programming...which is actually JavaScript and not NodeJS like I though initially -:(

Anyway...I tried to do that once in Unity and also in Flare3D, but didn't had enough luck...although fair enough...by that time I didn't knew Blender...so I put myself into working on it...

I designed a Wooden Puzzle board using Blender and then imported into Sumerian and applied a Mesh Collision to it...that way...the ball can run around the board and fall down if it gets over a hole...

Here is how it looks like...

To play...simple use the cursor keys to move the board and guide the ball from "Start" to "Finish". Pressing "r" restarts the game.

Here's the link to play it "Wooden Puzzle"...

Was it hard to build? Not really -:) Sumerian is very awesome and pretty powerful...on top of that...the Sumerian team is really nice and they are always more than willing to help...

So far...my Sumerian experience had been nothing but joy...so I can see myself doing more and more projects...

Of course...I'm already working on a couple more -;) Specially one involving using Oculus Rift...but that will take more time for sure....as I need to do a lot of Blender work..

Have you tried Sumerian? Not yet? Why don't you go ahead and request access?

Greetings,

Blag.
Development Culture.

Amazon Sumerian - First impressions

For those who know me and for those who doesn't...as I work as a Developer Evangelist...my main job is to learn, explore and evangelize new technologies and programming languages...so of course...AR/VR had been on my plate for quite some time...

I have played with Unity3D and Unreal Engine...and of course I have developed for the Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens and Oculus Rift...

When the good folks at Amazon announced Amazon Sumerian you can figure out that I completely thrilled -:D

So yesterday, I finally got accepted into the Beta program, so of course I started to follow a couple of tutorials and get to know the tool -;)

Please be advised that I'm starting...so I haven't tried or used everything...I want to go step by step following the tutorials and trying to understand everything in the most positive way...

Have I mentioned that Sumerian runs on your browser? How crazy is that? No installation...just launch up your browser and start building AR/VR experiences...

When you first launch it, you will be presented with the following screen...

Where you can create a new screen or simply use a template.

Sumerian provides many tutorials, and so far I have only made my way through the first 3...

So here's how my TV room looks like...

As you can see...Sumerian is a full blown editor that provides all the tools that you can find on any other editor...plus many things that I believe are brand new and exciting...

Of course, you can preview your work...

As for the TV Room tutorial...the idea is that below the TV Screen, there's an Amazon Echo, so you can press it to change the videos presented on the screen. For this you need to use a State Machine and also create a script that will manage the different videos. For the scripting you need to use NodeJS...which is really nice as is the language that I mainly use when developing application for Alexa...

This is how my TV Room looks like when playing a video on render mode -:)

Before moving on to learn more about Sumerian...I need to say that the navigation system doesn't seem to be too good by now...you can use the mouse buttons, Tab and Shift...but control keys or AWSD doesn't seem to work like you would expect on Unity3D or Unreal Engine...I have forwarded my question to the Sumerian Team on Slack...so I will update this post as soon as I get an answer :)

*UPDATE* By following the "Lights and Camera" tutorial I found out that while the default camera doesn't allow fine grain navigation...the FlyCam does it! -:D All good in the hood -;)

Till next time,

Blag.
Development Culture.