Overview

Here is my final year project titled Virtual Museum - Treasure From the Wanli Shipwreck. It is a virtual museum which exhibits the Chinese porcelains discovered from the Wanli Shipwreck at the east coast of Terengganu, Malaysia. The final outcome is an interactive application which allowed the users to walk through the virtual environment and also interact with the objects. Besides exhibiting the porcelains, the application also enable the user to know about the auspicious messages carried behind the designs and decorations of the porcelains.

It is believed that the Wanli Shipwreck was under attack and an onboard explosion destroyed the ship. So with this hazard and sorrow, I made a contrast by designing a calm and clean environment. The ancient porcelains are placed in a futuristic environment to illustrate that they are the only remains when time goes by.

The Virtual Environment



The Avatars


The Avatar01 and 02 are originated from SiewLee.
Some modification with the models and textures are done.

The Chinese Porcelains


Software used: Autodesk 3ds Max, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, Virtools

For more information regarding the shipwreck and its porcelains, you can visit the site Nanhai Marine Archeology.

VR Showcase 2009

VR showcase on 5 May 2009.
Click on the links of my classmates on the right panel to view their works.

Poster

Presentation Boards

Interaction Board

Texture and Modelling Board 1

Texture and Modelling Board 2

Final: User Interface

Final: Texture and Lighting

Interaction

List of Interaction

NAVIGATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
1. 1st person point of view
2. Keyboard arrow keys to move around
3. Mouse to view around

PROXY
1. Rotate object when user approachs
eg. porcelains rotate
2. Animate object when user approachs
eg. doors open
3. Hide/unhide object when user approachs
eg. projection of porcelains appear
4. Play certain animation when user approachs
eg. receptionist welcome the user

ACTIVATION ON MOUSE CLICK
1. Interface appear on mouse click
2. Characters and objects appear and animation starts on mouse click

INTERACTION ON INTERFACE
1. Mouse click on 2D sprites to select types of porcelains
2. Mouse click on 2D sprites to select porcelains to be explored
3. Middle mouse button to zoom in
4. Click and drag left mouse button to rotate
5. Mouse click on sprite to exit interface

Texture: Environment

Texture: Characters

Environment Textures

I figured out that my environment is too empty due to the "white" colour. Therefore, I am currently at the progress of adding some textures for the walls and so on, hopefully can add more details to the scene, and look more interesting as compared to the previous progress.

Religious and Philosophical Symbols


Human and Landscape


Some texture samples created in Photoshop

Some completed porcelains

Here are the 26 porcelains completed with textures. Rendered using V-ray, haven't tried imported into Virtools yet.
There are about 15 more porcelains to go... mostly plates and bowls.
Click on the slide to have a better control of the album.

P/S: only 1 render image per porcelain. So, stay tune for the final application to explore them with any angle u wish. =P

Characters modelling

The avatar design of the receptionist is edited.

Scene Modelling

Shipwreck


Religious and Philosophical Symbols


Human and Landscape


Compound Motifs


Flowers and Plants

Modelling

Character: Receptionist


Here is one of the character in the scene - the receptionist. The costume will be edited later on as it looks similar to Vietnamese traditional clothes which might result in false info.


Object: Porcelains


Here is some of the porcelains that have been done so far, without complete textures.

Application Design

Here is the sketchbook submission for Application Design.
Ok, about the same cover as the previous sketchbook.


The PDF format can be downloaded here.

Scene Render

Application Interface

The 1st one is the final design.

Avatars Design