Zoe - Prepare your scene

Overview - Exploring the Solar System

Setting up assets in your scene

Adding Interactivity

Light and Materials

Although this project is for an intermediate level it has been designed to be followed by students that don't have much experience of Unity nor Zoe. The goal is to teach about the solar system and user experience design with Unity and Zoe.

We recommend to create groups of students that will be accessing turn by turn the interface of Unity. 

The project has separate research and implementation phases and is scheduled for multiple sessions.

Zoe_SolarSystemExploration.zip

In this tutorial we are going to reproduce the Solar System, allow the user to navigate in between planets and learn interesting facts about them. 

You are in the middle of space, very close to the sun and to what seems a very small planet. When you look at it an information tells you that you are actually facing Mercury, the smallest planet of the solar system. Then instructions start appearing next to your controllers: you can move in space as if you were flying using your joystick. Then you are given the power to trig Mercury’s revolution around the sun by pointing at it. Finally you can be ported to the next planet by pressing a button. You will see interesting facts while you are travelling in space, notice how fast the planets are actually rotating compared to one another and you will realise that some of the distances are really long! 

Building a Solar System Exploration with Zoe

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Installing Zoe

Import the Project package

Preparing your workspace

Camera and navigation

How to prepare your scene for using the Zoe plugin.

Creating a Sustainable Farming Training Experience with Zoe 

Getting Started with Zoe [deprecated*]

If Zoe is not installed in your unity project, follow this tutorials first: How to Install Zoe 

Download the unity package corresponding to the Zoe tutorial you are working on. The package is available under 'Project Materials' tab at the root of the Project. 

Once downloaded, assuming you have Unity already open, double-click on it and import it inside your Unity project. A new folder of the project should be located under Zoe>Examples.

Download the package of the project

In order to follow the tutorials easily we recommend to change (if necessary) the layout of your Unity windows. However if you already have a preferred layout you can skip this step and go directly to Step 3. 

Go to Window>Layouts or directly go to the Layout dropdown menu (on the top right) and choose '2 by 3' (if it isn't available simply click on 'Revert Factory Settings', it should now appear in the list):

We also recommend displaying the Project window as a ‘One Column Layout’. Go to the icon on the top-right of the Project window and select the corresponding Layout.

Workspace Layout

One column Project layout

The demo scene associated with the project should be named '_ProjectNameSet'. Simply open it.

To create a scene from scratch, go into to File > New Scene (or pressing Ctrl + N). Save and rename. You can also simply rename the ‘BasicScene’ into your project's name.

First, we need to make the default camera interactive to detect the controllers and the headset movements. For this select the Main Camera in the Hierarchy, right-click on it and go to Zoe > Convert Into Interactive Camera.

To allow the user to move in space we are going to enable Navigation. There are two different ways of locomotion available: teleporting or moving with the joystick. Joystick allows you to move the camera freely in all directions while teleporting requires the user to press on the Joystick to aim at the floor before moving. While Joystick navigation is easier to use it can also cause motion sickness to certain group of people so be mindful of the speed.

Select your newly Camera (IO) and inside the Camera Settings (in the Inspector window) check Navigation. Then select the Joystick navigation. 

You can leave the LEFT controller for movement as it is done in most games, and enable Camera Rotation with the RIGHT controller. For simplifying the experience you can just use BOTH controllers for movement. 

We recommend to leave the speed quite low (max 3-4), you can change it and test it but remember that very fast movements may cause dizziness. 

Zoe - Prepare your scene

1. Installing Zoe

2. Import the Project package

3. Preparing your workspace

4. Camera and navigation

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