Game Design Portfolio
Morph-O-Ball
Morph-O-Ball is an interactive experience where the user uses their hands to squish and stretch an object in real time using a Leap Motion Controller hand tracking device.
How I made it
I wrote this program using Unity and Visual Studio C# scripting program. This project also uses a pre-existing library for the Leap Motion Controller.
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The original idea was for the player to grab individual vertices on the mesh and manipulate the mesh this way, but I ended up having the player grab individual controllers that instruct the object to either turn up or down blend shape modifiers. I created the sphere and all of its blend shapes in Autodesk Maya.
I gained a lot of inspiration for my idea from the start screen of Nintendo's Super Mario 64, where the player can morph and manipulate Mario's face using a stylus. I wanted to create a version of this in a 3D environment.
Special Thanks
Thanks to all the YouTube tutorials for guiding me through the process of learning the Leap Motion Integration process (https://docs.ultraleap.com/unity-api/) and the implementation of my own code.
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Specifically Praven P Jose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHAPS7SU3KE&t=16s) and BlastOfIce Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kx697Ad_Wk&t=34s) were the main sources of information when making this project for setting up my scene and implementing grasp events respectively.