Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Linking the database and update to project

After having a very detailed talk with our client last week of clarifying what he wanted, we focused on the areas he wanted us to do. He wanted the game to work in a way that when a course is selected from the church, it would display its relevant information in a pop-up window where a search bar would also be integrated within. With the help of Stephen, he created a server for the church database to based from, and where we would retrieve information to Unity in the game. As of now, we aren't able to link our model components to the database on XAMPP (shown below), but we are looking to get this solved as soon as possible.

In addition, with discussion from the client and tutor, the script I created (the drop down menu), isn't suitable for the project, as it is more suited for a web based application, rather than a game. So in knowing this, I decided to go back and continue on the first script I was working on that actually acted as a searching function, hopefully solving some of its minor issues with some help and develop it further for it to be used in conjunction with the pop-up window Maki has developed.

Assigning components to the list for the script to function as search variables

Roles during the project:

- Sorting out information of the database (exporting it into an excel sheet to be easily read, then passed on the information to group members in charge of the model of the church).

- Working in conjunction with the modelling group to match the naming convention of the sketchup component names to the names of what the database wants.

- Researching and designing a functional search bar to be used in the game.

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