Sky's the Limit

2024

DESCRIPTION

Sky's the Limit is a VR solar-system-creation, planet exploration tech demo for PC + Vive. It features a 3D gravity system that allows physics objects (like the player) to travel around planets, go between gravitational fields, and get thrown into orbit. The player starts in an empty solar system but can find and throw "baby planets" into the sky to create a system to explore.

DEVELOPMENT

I developed this project in my final year of university using Unity with the SteamVR plugin (never use this plugin, it's atrocious).  I modelled in Blender and used GitHub for source control.

The main technical achievement of this project was creating a relatively nausea-free VR movement system that worked with 3D gravity. I used tricks like snapping rotation to the current gravitational field and a cap on velocity to prevent nausea.