Setting Up Your PlayCanvas Project for VIVERSE

This document provides several guides that can be used to setting up the Project scene in Playcanvas editor before publishing onto VIVERSE Create.

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Spawn Point

Create An Entry Point For Your Avatar to Enter The Scene

To create a spawn point, right-click on the Root object and select New Entity > Entity. This entity will serve as the initial location where user avatars spawn or respawn. Please make sure your spawn point is above “ground”, to prevent the avatars from falling through the map.

Make sure to disable any camera/character control entity in the scene. As it might conflict with VIVERSE avatar system.

1

Creating A Spawn Point

A. Rename the entity to Spawn Point.

B. Add the spawn-point tag to the Tags field.

C. Set the values for the Position to (0, 1, 4) for X, Y, Z.

Collider

Setup The Floor Plan For Your Avatar To Walk And Stand On

This tutorial guides you through the process of creating floor plan for for you avatar to land and walk on.

1

Creating the Floor Entity

Configure the Plane object to become a floor that will prevent the avatar from falling through.

A. Rename the Plane to Floor.

B. Set the Scale to (20, 1, 20) for X, Y, Z.

C. Click the "Add Component" button. Select Physics > Collision to add a Collision component. Click the "Add Component" button again and select Physics > Rigid Body to add a Rigid Body component.

D. Resize the collider to cover the entire space of the Plane object by setting Half Extents field to (10, .1, 10) for X, Y, Z.

E. After the Floor material is created in the next step, it can be added here.

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Creating The Floor Material

Right-click in the Assets window and select New Asset > Material.

A. Rename the material to FloorMaterial.

B. Expand the Diffuse section and click the Color field. Set the values to (97, 255, 104) for r, g, b. Add it to the Materials section on the Floor object.

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Creating The First Wall

Configure the walls to prevent the avatar from falling off the map. Select the Box in the scene and enable it.

A. Rename the Box to Wall1.

B. Set the values for the Position to (0, 0, 10) for X, Y, Z.

C. Set the values for the Scale to (20, 5, .1) for X, Y, Z.

D. Click the "Add Component" button. Select Physics > Collision to add a Collision component. Click the "Add Component" button again and select Physics > Rigid Body to add a Rigid Body component.

E. Resize the collider to cover the entire space of the wall object by setting Half Extents to (10, 2.5, .1) for X, Y, Z.

F. After the Wall material is created in the next step, it can be added here.