Due to the complexity of the objects in my project for assignment 2, I decided to start over. I came up with the idea to make a "combination lock" style toy.
The toy consists of a an inner chamber and three rotating cylinders, all contained in an outer chamber. The inner chamber contains a small ball, and one circular opening (slightly larger diameter than that of the ball). Holes (with diameters equivalent to the opening of inner chamber) are placed halfway between the radius and the outer edge of the rotating cylinders. The outer chamber has one opening at the end and three windows centered above the rotating cylinders. The user turns the cylinders by pressing up (Q, W, E) or down (A, S, D). I also added decorative gears on the side that turn with the cylinders (these gears use the same sensors for the cylinders, and customized the actuators so that the larger gears turn slower than the smaller ones).
The player's goal is to get the ball out by lining up the holes in the correct positions and tilting the machine to the side.*
*I wanted to make controls that allow the user to tilt the whole machine to let the ball out, but I have not yet figured out how to make controls for the hole machine. I also tried to figure out the UV mapping features, so I could put numbers or letters (viewable through the windows) on the cylinders, but I could not figure out how to export a copy of the unrolled map to Photoshop.
Larin!
