Virtual World Design.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cudworth, Ann Latham, author.

Contributor:

CRC Press LLC.

Standardized Title:

Virtual World Design (Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer simulation.

Shared virtual environments--Design.

Shared virtual environments.

Virtual reality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

CRC Press [Imprint] Abingdon : Taylor & Francis Group Abingdon : Bookpoint Limited [distributor]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Annotation Learn How to Create Immersive Virtual Environments Written by an award-winning designer with 20 years of experience designing virtual environments for television and online communities, Virtual World Design explores the intertwining disciplines of 2D graphics, 3D models, lighting, sound, and storytelling. It illustrates how these disciplines come together by design in the creation of an accessible virtual environment for teaching, research, and entertainment. The book gives anyone the tools and techniques to design virtual environments that support their message and are accessible by all. With 200 illustrations and 12 step-by-step projects, the book delivers hours of creative challenges for people working in public virtual worlds or on private grids. Using the modular components available for download on the author¿s website, readers learn by building such things as a virtual classroom, an "all-access" terrain, and a sound-based game. This book can be the foundation for class work in distance learning, simulation, and other learning technologies that use virtual environments. It shows both novices and advanced users how 3D composition, color, lighting, and sound design are used in the creation of an immersive virtual environment.

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction to Virtual Worlds and Designing for Them; Chapter 2: How to Use This Book and Start Doing Virtual World Design; Chapter 3: "Build It Once" : Optimizing Your Design Workflow; Chapter 4: Concepts in 3D Design for Virtual Environments; Chapter 5: Virtual Terrain and Designing Landscapes; Chapter 6: 3D Modeling, 2D Graphics, and Data Visualization; Chapter 7: Color, Particles, and Sensory Spaces; Chapter 8: Lighting in Virtual Environments : Second Life and OpenSim

Chapter 9: Cameras and Collaborative Spaces (the Ideagora)Chapter 10: Virtual Goods and Design for Virtual Shopping Environments; Chapter 11: Sound Design for Virtual Spaces; Chapter 12: Avatars and Nonplayer Characters; Chapter 13: Prototyping the Real World in a Virtual Environment; Chapter 14: Scripting Basics for the Designer; Chapter 15: HUDs in Virtual Environments; Chapter 16: Machinima in Virtual Worlds; Chapter 17: The Future, Design, and Virtual Worlds; Glossary; Useful Links by Topic; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429187384

0429187386

9781138427730

113842773X

9781466579613

1466579617

OCLC:

881886689