EX 1 Creative Code - XR Dev

Description: 

Explore generative art, self-replication and recursion. Using coroutines, instantiation, transform properties, shaders, conditionals, and randomness, create a system that generates a form of dynamic work. Experiment with code to generate something visually interesting and organic yet alien.'

In this project, I created an art and music piece. Every half a second, a new rock is generated at a random location. This rock has a random color and then falls onto an assortment of panels. When contact is made, there is a random chance that a corresponding piano sound effect will play. Each rock changes colors to be some shade of purple/pink. After ~30 seconds, the scene resets and the rocks begin falling again.  This project contains sound. 

Code Breakdown: 

• Code
  • Main: Starts 2 Coroutines (MakeRocks | ResetRocks)
  • ChangeColor: Assigns color to rocks
  • Clink: Detects collision and plays according sound effect
  • CollisionMultiply: Detects collision and duplicates/removes rocks
  • RemoveObjects: Destroys rock after randomized lifespan
• Main
  • Make Rocks: Randomly chooses position and rotation of each rock and instantiates a new one every .5 seconds. 
  • ResetRocks: After 30 seconds, destroys all existing rocks (except for the original rock)
• ChangeColor

  
  

  • Gets current color and starts color swap coroutine
  • ColorSwap coroutine randomly chooses a new material color and replaces the rock color after .4 seconds
• Clink

  
  

  • Detects when a collision occurs
  • Based on a variable established in the inspector (values from 1 - 15), there is a chance that the audio plays each time a collision occurs. 
  • Different audio scripts are assigned to different panels. 
• CollisionMultiply
• Detects when a collision occurs
• Starts two functions: DuplicateObjects and RemoveRocks
• DuplicateObjects: There is a 5% chance that a collision with another object will cause the rock to duplicate. If this 5% chance occurs, the script references the rock prefab and instantiates a new rock at the same position. 
• RemoveRocks: All generated rocks have the tag rock. If the number of objects with the rock tag exceeds the maxRocks variable, all new rocks are deleted. 
• RemoveObjects

  
  

  • After a rock is generated, waits for a random time between 0 and 10 seconds and then destroys that game object. 

Credits: 

• Piano chords are recorded by myself
• Piano notes: 
  • Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixaba
• Skybox: 
  • https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/sky/allsky-free-10-sky-skybox-set-146014