The fourth meeting took place on February 9th at 7:30 pm. This meeting took place after the VR mid-crit, and they got some feedback from their mentors, in which they discussed some concepts and details related to the third act, and they also created more clear divisions between the virtual part of the video and the realistic performance.
We also planned to make two videos which will come at the end of act III and between act IV and act V. Near the end of act III, there will be an interactive part from the VR, for the treatment part.
The plan for the end of act III was to keep the patient in the middle of a 360 screen and he will see the video, There will be three to four 3d models around him and when he reaches for these models, the video will change or there will be a reaction in the video.
The second video was for act IV which will be at the end of the VR world. This would be just played on a plain screen and there would not be any interactions but the actor would just sit on the bed and realise that he is going to leave the virtual world.
For act III, we had to model cells and for the video, we had to model cells and a few pieces of medical equipment for the actor to interact with so that the video can change.
To make the model of the vial, I took a cylinder changed the division and deleted the top face and then extended the edges to make the inside of the model. To get the shape of the vial, I used an edge loop and made the shape. For the cap of the vial, I used the cylinder and made the rubber seal with the centre face. Then I extruded the inverse of the edge. For the edges, I added an edge ring to make it smooth. For the liquid inside the vial, I used a cylinder and used sculpting tools like pull and shapen, soft edges.
The cannula can be broken down into many parts. I started off with the body, then I extruded the cylinder and used the circularize to make perfect holes on the wings of the body, I used the same matter to make the Luer connector. The port cap was created by using the same tools.
To make the needle grip, I combined multip cylinders to shape the body. For the needle grip itself, I used the cylinder and extruded and moved the edges and face to give it the shape.
Then I added a needle and the needle cap and also added tubing by drawing a line on the EP curve tool and extruding on only one face of the cylinder to make the tube.
The next task was to start working on the cells. First came the DNA, creating this was fun and easy. I used a sphere and gave a nose in texture to give it an uneven look and gave it MASH. Then I gave more points and moved it x distance and gave it 360 x rotate, following which I flipped it to make the other side. To make the connector, I used a duplicate special.
For the RBC, I used a sphere and used soft selection and pulled-in inverts and used a sculpting tool to make imperfections. For the WBC sphere, I gave it noise in textures and put some smaller cells inside the cell.
For the green virus, I did the same thing as the WBC but the time I used sculpting tools to pull out to give spikes. For the blue virus, I used a box and gave it a noise texture and used sculpting tools to make spikes, for the Inside of the cell, I added a helix.
This was the 5th meeting but I was unable to attend. The meeting was with the actors, the people who attended were Minghong Zhang, Xiaoyan Dong, Jiageng Guo, Zhongge Sui and Wanwei Zhong. In this meeting, they introduced the basic concept of our project play and process to the actors, and briefly experienced our demo.