Virtual Party Space Devlog #12: Player avatars

Today I add the ability to have player avatars, and realise I have to build my own character creator to get the features I want.

Log

• had trouble with getting event out of GamePhysics, so moving audio location using update
  • BUG: this updates audio location every frame, change to only update when changed RESOLVED
• finished adding code to change player avatar and make it an in-game object
  • currently only works for participants who join after you
  • new objects are on an orthographic grid and don’t have movement. GridPhysics class needs adjustments to work
• BUG: leaving conference caused exception when calla.localUserId still exists but user had been removed from local array RESOLVED

Character Creator

• researching how to do layers in Canvas
  • https://itnext.io/building-a-game-with-typescript-drawing-grid-5-5-49454917b3af
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Optimizing_canvas
• started drawing using Sketchbook on iPad
  • can export as PSD to mac, apparently
    • save each layer as separate image for use in creator

About this series

Back in mid-December I started an ambitious project to create a custom platform for a virtual birthday party in February. I kept notes on my progress, both for personal reference and to turn into a series of blog posts. It quickly became apparent that I did not have time to both do the project and blog about the project. I have retroactively decided to post my raw notes as a dev log.