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After i submitted the code i realised why it wouldn't pick up the King of spades. This was because i thought i put it as a target but i put the Queen of spades as a target twice.

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So using the object the guy used in the video, i found some Pokemon cards in the classroom and used them as triggers. Once the code worked i changed the targets to commonly found ones so that people could easily try it out. This was my end result and shows how once the trigger is in view of the camera, the manhole(cylinder) will appear. Towards the end you can see even then it still has trouble detecting the target and so the 3D object doesn’t appear as smoothly.

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AR -Unity

While following the video, i came across problems with my targets as i wanted to originally use manholes from Salzburg so it would be much clearer that when the AR camera detects a specific manhole, our manhole covers appear on top as a trigger. But since my images weren’t clear, on vuforia where i created my target databases, the rating was low, showing me they wouldn't be detected. 

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I used this video on YouTube to help me go through the steps of making an abject appear on a target since i wasn't sure of the steps 

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Team Work

As a team we were slightly ahead of schedule and so took the time to focus on other modules. However, this lead to this project suffering in which we didn't communicate and no work was being done for the app. This lead to us deciding to do simulations as the prototype app. This was to show the main functions of how they would work such as the interface as well as  how it’s individual features work like the game and AR features.

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We had another lesson where we were able to get a 3D object to appear when a target appears, here i was able to get a cube to appear briefly using the toy camera as a target.

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Our module leader had organised someone to come in a give us a lesson on using AR. Even though this was for our games module, this helped a lot with this project and i was able to talk to him about my project.  In our group we had different responsibilities, so Tamya was in charge of the main app interface while Mel focused on the game and i worked on the AR function.

In the lesson we made an image have a video play over it through the AR camera. and was given a work sheet to help us with the steps.

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Finalisation

After more discussion with the group we decided we didn't want to use green since it looked sickly and so i made more edits with different blues. However at this point the group hadn't met as we were supposed to talk about it in person, so the colour schemes i had done were not seen by my group members, and so not used in the final product.

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Development

After talking with my group we agreed to stick to blue and green but use different pastel colours than what was on the palette. Tamya had created a word document with a bunch of pastel colours so from that i chose a few and made some versions with different variations.  

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Colour Schemes

We had decided on a colour palette we wanted to use for our app and so i was in charge of how the overall app would look. In the promo video and wireframes the colour schemes were not how we wanted them for the final so i experimented with a bunch of variations.

At first i had made this but i didn't like it at all so i went back on what the clients wanted and they specified that they wanted pastel colours but mostly white with hints of colour.

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These are the wireframes.

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Tamya had the responsibility to make the wire frames for the promo video while i concentrated on colour scheme for the prototype and Mel put together the video.

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Finalised designs

After asking my group members on which design they preferred I took them to Photoshop to develop. Tamya liked the 1st and the 4th one whereas Mel liked the two bottom, So i decided to create these three.

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Manhole Designs

However, with the manhole cover designs we agreed that they weren't what we wanted and so i made some initial designs to show the group. I looked at manholes that exist in Salzburg and they didnt have much to them as they were plain. But even then we wanted to keep them simple, so I used inspiration of what to find in the city with the castle and violin drawing.Then the other designs used the name of the city as its main focus.  

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Logo and layout

As a group we decided to draw out our designs and ideas and come as a collective to choose from the designs we had. Out of the designs and layouts we all came to a decision of using Mel's as we all agreed that they suited the style we wanted and it was clear, simple yet unique.