Remaining jam updates

[kykuyo]

Recent changes:

• Integrated VPS pie chart UI
• First tutorial completed

Feature changes we are hopeful to get to:

• [x] Integration of new map colors
• [x] Updated slime mesh + textures
• [x] (lower priority) integration of a new player character (model + animations); worst case scenario, Patrick does the FBX outline trick for our SolAR model.
• [x] Working on the global score for all teams, another screen needing to add
• [x] AR, something to switch the mode from painting to spraying, need some icon or switch -> Patrick to play around with some design
• Optimize the AR scene & VPS location detection.
  • [x] Can reduce the meshing precision. We can change the meshing to be happen 20 fps (would also reduce the tracking speed to only 15fps). Using a sort of smart cleaner where specific meshing automatically removes and updates information as you move around, doesn't quite remove everything every frame.
  • [x] VPS location detection: seems to be that it can't handle the payload. Maybe experimental vs production spots? We can test on the niantic website to see which ones are experimental. Worst case scenario is we comment out the VPS logic so we just have the AR screen on its own.
• [x] Skybox - something simple like, but a simple linear gradient skybox
• [x] Fog
• [x] Potentially add a querying index to the firebase data to get only nearby locations
• [ ] Welcome screen

Timeline:

• By Wedn. checkin, should be most feature work done
• By Thursday checkin, polish should be done
• By Friday, it's the revision notes in case we need a take two version for the video recording
• Friday before midnight, Patrick uploads video & submits jam!

[kykuyo]

Demo plan:

1. Open the app go through tutorial
2. Will walk around, have buddy collect energy
3. Find a location [ should already have the 3 colors of goo there], see the score of that location first, and ideally being more of another color
4. Player does a little bit of cleaning up, then more of it spewing more goo
5. Exit as normal 9. Finally show the breakdown score, showing that it's now the player's color
6. Show the tapping trophy to show the regional stats.

At this point, clearing the above, what are the little things we can still do:

• [ ] Aday: Onboarding screens (tutorial), small bug to make sure the tutorial comes up correctly
  • Make it so the tutorial always shows up
• [ ] Cristian: Onboarding screen design: Just find a nicer 2D background or just overlay the background
  • Sticking to a consistent theme
  • If we use the large panel grid, let's adjust the sprite so it has the proper border scaling (9-grid)
• [ ] Aday: Team switching: We can simply hide this, along with the play "test" button
• [ ] Aday: Add image son top of the existing icons for which state is active, and remove the shared border between them.
  • [ ] Patrick to share this briefly
• [ ] Aday: Play with the colors of the map, Aday & Caro to a 1:1 in a live session. Could brighten things up some
• [ ] Lower priority: make the fog a little more blue at the base.
• [ ] Patrick: Itch page
• [ ] Patrick: Sample mock video edit
• [ ] Caro: Record the video, draft 1!