...almost. Today was mainly a work day in which I responded to feedback and tried (unsuccessfully, yet again) to build the python build that a former employee left behind. After reinstalling the Python libraries after Tcl/Tk wasn't being resolved properly and doing the proper conversions of the build document from DOS to Unix (dos2Unix, oddly enough did not work, so I had to remove the characters manually (sed -i 's/\r$//' insert-file-here) ), PyInstaller seemed to not support a certain type of replace it was attempting. Whether this is because the latest version of PyInstaller is too new or not, I am uncertain. Honestly, there's a lot of things to be uncertain about regarding what proper Python tools to use.
Going back to the actual Unity work, I managed a couple of tweaks here and there. By employing the motion blur provided by Unity's standard assets, I did a convincing speed blur effect upon hyper speed. It's not the official camera motion blur script, but taking a render texture and applying the offsets to the main scene, one can get a pretty cool effect:
On top of that, I also put in some background assets and a script that repeats them over time to fit the looping nature of the scene. I don't know if it was entirely necessary, but I exercised taking messy for-loops out and mainly worked with recursive programming. After learning about template metaprogramming. I could also put in some template overloads if I really wanted to follow that route.
As for the floating ball scene, I applied some tweaks with a gently swaying motion to reward objects. Coroutines came to the rescue (don't they always) and applied a back-and-forth constant force (doing away with external gravity entirely). The tricky part, however, was reversing velocity; an instant change was too jarring, but reversing the velocity applied by a constant force caused an unequal distribution on one end, causing the objects to fly veeeeery far into the air.
The solution for that was a quick but gentle velocity decrease function; if the velocity sign did not match the force sign, the function would move the velocity toward 0, giving the force a fighting chance and getting a gentle back-and-forth motion:
What next? Another application in the works is calling for weather. Can I make clouds without referring to a paid package? I better hope so.
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