Dimensional planning

 I saw a really inspiring post at Don Carson’s blog where he made a scale model dark ride, then imported it piece by piece into sketch-up and rode his ride in VR.

Here’s the post.

I’ve been working on applying his method. Now, I’ve never done this before so the learning curve is quite high, but I’m determined to apply this method to my personal projects.

Here’s some early sketches of a MegaMan dark ride coaster I started with the intentions of learning to use this paper to vr model process.

Now, I’m really at the planning phase, so the scope and design of this might change a lot, but I’ll share more as I make progress.

My goal is to have a scale paper model with flat assets and import those into a 3D environment, allowing me to show what riding this would look like. I really appreciate Don showing us this step by step process he used to make his lockdown virtual dark ride. 

Hopefully I get up to speed on things quickly. I’ll share more in a few days.